Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The first Italeri "Fast Assembly"-kit!

The "fast assembly"-kits from Italeri was for a long time in my radar, but the models produced till now wasn"t on my wish list, till I noticed this one:



Autocannone RO3 with 90/53 AA Gun in a 1/72 scale!

As usual the information from Wiki:

The Cannone da 90/53 was an Italian designed cannon, and one of the most successful anti-aircraft guns to see service during World War II. It was used both in an anti-aircraft role and as an anti-tank gun.

The designation "90/53" meant that the gun had a 90 mm caliber and a barrel 53 caliber-lengths long.

Fifty or so 57 were ordered to be mounted on heavy Lancia trucks and designated Autocannoni da 90/53.

The box includes 8 figures:



There are 2 sprues the above for the truck and the below for the AA gun:



At last I got one and build it!



and from the opposite side:



The rest of figures and the whole model will be painted and altered!

2 comments:

  1. Looks ok. How long did it take to build and did you need to glue it?
    Cheers
    Paul

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  2. Hi Paul,

    The day before I painted the tires and I build it in less than 1 hour!? (I think!)

    Theoratically you don't need to glue it, but practically it's better to glue some small parts, like driving mirror.

    More important IMHO it's definitely not a wargame model. It's sculpted beatifully, but some parts are VERY sensitive for a wargame!

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