TNCA H-1
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1:72 scale model Fiber-models brand, made in Mexico a few years ago and a gift from my Mexican friend Antonio Espinosa.
It is a monoplane designed by Francisco Santarini in 1916, built in the National Workshops of Aeronautical Constructions of Mexico, called TCNA H-1, being the first H series. Equipped with a 6 cylinder AZTALT engine and an Anahuac propeller, also designed and built in Mexico.
I participate in important events with the Constitutionalist Army, one of them as the escort of the train of President Venustiano Carranza on his last trip, in which he is assassinated. Fourteen copies of this H series were built and it was marketed in Latin America as "CIMA-1". Its greatest use was as pilot and bomber trainer.
I built it as it comes in the box, with the original colors according to the museum's documentation in which another of these specimens is found, but with a special blue decoration. Painted with Humbrol aluminum and black acrylic from Revell. Some panels were highlighted with aging of critical