1/72 10-008 Supermodel Savoia Marchetti SM-81 Pipistrello
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
This is a well detailed and molded kit from 1972. Features two types of engine cowls for Piaggio and Alfa Romeo powerplant versions, very cockpit and interior detail, two pilots, gun turrets that retract, rotate and have elevating guns, optional position crew doors, separately molded rudder, elevators and ailerons, rotating propellers and wheels, optional torpedo load-out and more. Includes full multi-view paint tuide and decals for two aircraft (camo and Pipistrello). The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. The SM 81 was an Italian bomber / torpedo bomber / transport in service from 1935 and 1945. It was derived from the MS 73 transport in 1934 and ordered into mass production following successful testing. The aircraft saw action in Eritrea/Ethiopia, Spain and Spanish Morocco, Libya, Albania, Italy and East Africa. Some even saw action in the Italian and Finnish Air Forces after WWII.
$32.00