SIAI Marchetti SF260

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December 11, 2020
vacform Marchetti built some years ago
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December 11, 2020
top of vacform kit
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December 11, 2020
bottom of vacform kit
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December 11, 2020
Daco resin kit (two pieces) , must be over 30 years old.
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December 11, 2020
The KP kit is a "short run" , sprue connections must be removed
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December 11, 2020
more sprue connections
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December 11, 2020
No back seat bench in the kit, must be made from the spare box. DACO resin kit has the seat with safety belts
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December 17, 2020
SH kit content : much detail and a lot of tiny parts
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December 17, 2020
Fuselage of SH kit (left) and KP kit (right) compared. The floor of the SH kit is just a little too wide to fit, a littke scraping is required.
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December 17, 2020
I combined the dashboard of the KP kit with a spare from SH. Some filing and scraping is required to fit it in the fuselage. KP kit has no backseat , it comes from the spare box. The nose requires some putty to smoothen the joints
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June 19, 2021
step 7 : glue B8 tot B9 and sand down to fit A8 ! It is easier to scrap away the two lttle ribs on A8
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December 20, 2020
SH kit instructs : glue dashboard to cockpitfloor. It is easier to glue the dashboard to the fusalage. Parts B1, B2, B4 were slightly too wide to fit easily in the fuselage and needed some sanding to adjust them. There is no "parcel shelf" B21 in the Belgian Marchettis.
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October 19, 2021
This beacon (?) is not present on the early Belgian SF260M , it shoud be removed, leaving a tiny hole in the wing to be filled with putty. For the SF260D , the bump is much flatter.
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December 20, 2020
The space between dashboard and nose can be used to add weight to avoid a tailsitter
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March 28, 2021
early (1971) two tone camouflage with dayglo tail, nose and tiptanks
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April 14, 2021
First kit finished 1971 livery , DACO resin kit, self made decals, flag and roundels PJ production
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April 14, 2021
left side view
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April 14, 2021
right side view
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April 17, 2021
second DACO kit, left side painted as 1980 SWALLOWS
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April 17, 2021
second DACO kit, right side painted as 1973 SWALLOWS
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March 28, 2021
1980 Swallows team, two tone camo, dayglo on tail, fuselage line, nose, tiptanks and leadding edge
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March 28, 2021
second delivery (ST-40 to ST-48), two tone camo, red dayglo , "Wolf" on tail
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January 17, 2025
This is the home designed decal set for the early Belgian SF260 and Swallows team. Was issued afterwards as Stropdecal , only available at model fairs in Belgium
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March 28, 2021
later (1986) three tone camouflage
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March 28, 2021
1990 special painting for 20 years service, subject of stropdecal set 2
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January 17, 2025
Self designed decals, later issued as stropdecal set2 .
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May 28, 2021
One more finished, SH kit, own decals
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May 28, 2021
Right side
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May 28, 2021
Left side
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May 28, 2021
Bottom view
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March 28, 2021
2009, two tones grey ST-40 for 40 years, same decal sheet, model finished
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January 24, 2025
ST-40 special painting 40 years
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January 24, 2025
ST-40 special painting 40 years
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March 28, 2021
2009, ST-48 as machettiger
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January 17, 2025
home designed decals, later issued as stropdecal set 3,
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May 22, 2021
KP kit finished, right side
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May 22, 2021
view on a mirror
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May 22, 2021
left
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March 28, 2021
2000, yellow and red , decals as in the KP kit
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March 28, 2021
Civil Aviation School
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January 17, 2025
Self designed decalset , issued als stropdecal set n° 4
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October 12, 2021
Right side, SH kit 72418, home made decals, Tamyia X-4 blue, TS-36 fluo red
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October 12, 2021
Left Side
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October 12, 2021
Top & bottom view
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March 28, 2021
1996, new Swallows aerobatic team
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January 17, 2025
Decalset n° 5 for the NEW SWALLOWS
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January 17, 2025
NEW SWALLOWS. These aircraft had 2 smoke generator tanks installed in place of the back seat
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January 17, 2025
Bottom view of one of the two schemes
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March 28, 2021
2009, special painting for 300.000 hrs
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May 9, 2021
second kit of Special Hobby arrived SH72433, main sprues te ame as in SH72418 , decals included for Belgian ST-47 same livery as ST-48 of KP kit.
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April 27, 2021
Difference in canopy height between SH72418 and SH72433 : 0,7 mm
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May 9, 2021
still putting decals on ST-20 , they are very delicate
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March 28, 2021
2003, 250.000 hrs, the real thing
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May 29, 2021
and the SH kit with the decals of the kit
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May 29, 2021
The Special Hobby Kit with the decals in the kit
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January 17, 2025
Decalset n° 6 for two special decorations : 30 years and 300.000 hrs
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March 28, 2021
1999, special painting 30 years
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June 6, 2022
top right
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June 6, 2022
top left
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June 6, 2022
bottom righ
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January 17, 2025
and the other one
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January 17, 2025
left side
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January 17, 2025
top view
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January 17, 2025
bottom view
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October 8, 2021
Home made decals for "high canopy" versions, stropdecal decalset n° 7 : red devils, hardship red, 50 years, light grey scheme
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March 28, 2021
New "Red Devils"
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June 21, 2021
Red Devil time
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October 8, 2021
Red Devil , SH kit high canopy, home made decals
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October 8, 2021
Right side
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October 8, 2021
Red Devil bottom
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March 28, 2021
2010 , Hardship red aerobatic team
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March 28, 2021
2014 50 years in red
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March 28, 2021
2014 50 years in Yellow
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March 28, 2021
2014 50 years in grey
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March 28, 2021
2019 in grey

Comentarios

40 11 December 2020, 18:53

Maciej Bellos
Following with interest. My daughter saw this aircraft in a documentary and wants to build it. She liked it being yellow and red.

11 December 2020, 19:09

Cuajete
Me 2.

The comparison of the new SH and KP kits is interesting. I think SH is better, but KP offers decals for more interesting decorations. Thanks for the input 👍.

18 December 2020, 18:41

Gordon Sørensen
Great work, Erik! The SF-260 is a great looking aircraft. Looking forward to following your progress.

19 December 2020, 00:55

Erik De Smet
I just made an overview of the several outfits I can give these planes

28 March 2021, 15:53

Erik De Smet
The first five are coming close to final

3 April 2021, 15:38

Alex K
I really enjoy and admire your "variation-on-a-theme" multiple builds / collections (even using several different kits of the same subject), as in the case of your Fouga collection or the SF260 (one of the most graceful aircraft!). I wish you will also include the civilian example of photo 33 in your future SF260 builds... Keep up the good work! 👍

10 April 2021, 13:21

Erik De Smet
Thank you, Alex, and yes I will build the Belgian civilian one. I am actually working on home made decals for several Belgians and I found someone in the Netherlands who can print decals with white for a very reasonable price. Special Hobby announced a second kit of the SF 260 with the higher canopy. Unfortunately An other yellow one, so I will have to make more decals.

10 April 2021, 16:15

Erik De Smet
First kit finished

14 April 2021, 15:16

Erik De Smet
I just received the second Special Hobby kit 72433 of the Marchetti SF260 with the larger canopy. The difference in height is 0.7 mm

27 April 2021, 14:15

Erik De Smet
Still putting decals on ST-20 : many VERY TINY ones, and I misplaced some. Fortunately , I bought several kits, so I can finish it

9 May 2021, 14:20

Erik De Smet
One finished: the KP kit with own design laser printed decals

22 May 2021, 14:52

Cuajete
Nice! 👍

22 May 2021, 17:40

Erik De Smet
One more finished: the 1990 special paint on ST-24

28 May 2021, 14:25

Łukasz Gliński
These decals turned out really nicely

28 May 2021, 16:13

Cuajete
Well done!

28 May 2021, 18:11

Maciej Bellos
Good looking 260. Nice job Erik!

28 May 2021, 20:10

Erik De Smet
One more finished : the SH-kit with the decals in the kit. They are very delicate, and I screwed up some, but as I had more than one kit, I could correct my errors.

29 May 2021, 15:04

Mark
Great collection! 👍

22 July 2021, 08:35

Cuajete
I agree with Mark... Nice collection!
Congrats!

22 July 2021, 17:08

Erik De Smet
One more (almost) finished, finally

8 October 2021, 13:57

Cuajete
Before Erik out of stock them from all stores I got a kit from Special Hobby and one from KP 😛
Looking good this one too. Congrats! 👍.

8 October 2021, 18:06

Erik De Smet
Next week Special Hobby will be at ipms Belgium convention. I will ask them to increase their output ...

8 October 2021, 18:43

Cuajete
😄 😄 😄

8 October 2021, 18:58

Erik De Smet
One more finished: three tone camo introduced in 1986

9 October 2021, 09:33

Cuajete
👌👍🏻

9 October 2021, 18:05

Erik De Smet
One more finished : Belgian civil aviation school

12 October 2021, 07:46

Alex K
Love it! 👍 👍

12 October 2021, 09:44

Erik De Smet
I just added a modification for the SH kit, which I forgot to mention

19 October 2021, 15:09

Felix Troschier
Thanks for providing interesting information about your builds, I really appreciate that.
I'm very pleased by the Sabena ones, are you willing to share a copy of your decals? Of course I would pay you for that 😉

19 October 2021, 21:37

Daniel Mysak
Nice project and nice collection so far.👍

1 December 2021, 14:03

Erik De Smet
Now finishing the little ones

6 June 2022, 15:21

Erik De Smet
After 2,5 years it is time to complete this album with the latest builds

2 17 January, 16:22

Album info

A combined build of two 30 year old resin kits from DACO and the new KP and SH kits. Because the SF260 had so many liveries in its 50 years service , I started to design the decals for them and issued them as my first Stropdecal project

Siai Marchetti SF260

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1:72 SIAI SF-260D/W "European users" (Kovozávody Prostějov KPM0212)

1:72 SIAI-Marchetti SF-260M/AM/W (Special Hobby SH72418)

1:72 Siai Marchetti SF260M (Daco Products K7201)

1:72 SIAI Marchetti SF-260EA (Special Hobby SH72433)

1:72 Marchetti SF260 camo met Pinguin/Swallows (2vl.) (Stropdecal HMD1)

1:72 Marchettis SF 260 Marchettiger (Stropdecal HMD3)

1:72 Belgische Marchettis SF 260 20 years & 40 years (2 vl.) (Stropdecal HMD2)

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