ITALIAN STORCH?

Why did you pick an Italian paint scheme for your Storch? Rob Caso: I had already built four or five Storchs, both RC and plastic models. Having painted them all in Luftwaffe camouflage, I was looking for something a bit different. My good friend, Vince Nigrelli, has been nagging me to design “something Italian” and so I decided to paint the model in a Regia Aeronautica scheme. Like most of what the Italians do, their WW II schemes were almost artistic and I really wanted to do a lighter scheme since they show up better at the field. I plinked around on the Internet and discovered a Storch in an Italian museum that has a scheme very close to the one I did here. With the almost yellow base coat and…

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Model Airplane News (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2022

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