1:72 Description:Caproni Ca.100 Caproncino Italian Training aircraft

The real subject

The Caproni Ca.100, nicknamed Caproncino, is an Italian training biplane of the early 1930s, derived from the British de Havilland Moth light aircraft. It was a small machine with open cockpits set one behind the other, on which whole year-groups of Italian pilots learned to fly. The nickname means little Caproni and it fits: against the bombers that made the brand famous, this is a small thing that two people could push into a hangar.

On the build

The kit is meant to be glued and painted; it is not a finished model. The listing of the parts and the contents of the package are not stated here, and the building procedure is given in the manufacturer's instructions. In 1:72 scale the Ca.100 is a small model, so it pays to prepare a working surface on which nothing gets lost and to cut the parts off only at the moment when you are going to glue them.

Building and painting tips

• Finish the interior of both cockpits before you close the fuselage up; afterwards they can no longer be reached.
• Glue the upper wing on a surface that holds both halves at the same height, otherwise the dihedral will go out.
• Try all the struts dry at once and only then glue them one by one.
• Paint the fuselage and the lower wing before joining them to the upper wing; between them a brush gets in with more difficulty.
• Rig any bracing wires only after the joints have dried, so that the structure holds its shape.

Who it is for

For modelers who are fond of interwar machines and are not afraid of a biplane in a small scale. A kit is supplied. The paints, the glue and the tools are not included, unless stated otherwise.