Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I have to!
Finally! Thank you, HTC and Greebo, it was about time the Macchi fighters got a model update! They are really gorgeous now! Great job!
Now, if I may be my usual picky self, a few things I'd like to point out:
From the announcement page
This is the C.202 of Captain Prince Carlo Ruspoli, C.O. of the 91 Squadriglia while based at Fuka in Egypt in 1942. Ruspoli scored 10 kills for the Regia Aeronautica before joining the pro-Allied Co-Belligerant Air Force after the Armistice. 91 Squadrilgia was part of 4 Gruppo who were named after the famous Italian WW1 ace Francesco Baracca. They carried both his name and his prancing horse symbol on their aircraft, the same symbol later used by Enzo Ferrari on his racing cars.
There's a typo, "Squadriglia" is misspelled and the 4th Stormo (Wing) is called Gruppo (Group). The Stormo carried Francesco Baracca's name (it did so till 1967, when the 10th Gruppo was detached to create the 9th Stormo, named after Baracca, while the 4th was rechristened Amedeo D'Aosta, after one of its commanding officers), AFAIK the 91st never bear that name; both shared the insignia (more precisely, the Cavallino Rampante was the insignia of the 91st Squadriglia; when the 4th Stormo was created in 1931, the insignia was a winged man, but since both the Gruppi that composed the Stormo adopted Baracca's horse as symbol, it quickly became the Stormo insignia, in 1933; you can find more
here.
One odd thing I discovered while researching Macchi C.200/202/205 series of fighter aircraft is that the left wing was built 9 inches longer span than the right. This was an attempt to overcome the uneven lift at the stall caused by propeller airflow over the wing roots. A different solution to this problem was the leading edge spoiler used on the RH wing of the Corsair. Might be why it flies a little oddly. IIRC the LW pilots who flew it rated it as having poor departure characteristics.
Can you quote your source for that? I've always known that the longer span was to counter torque, much like other aircrafts have different aerodynamic solutions for the same problem; as for stall, in the early development stage of the C.200 (whose wing is the same of the Folgore and Veltro), there was an issue with stall characteristic, but it was solved with a redesign of the wing profile (originally, it had a constant profile, that was changed into a varying profile).
Drop Tanks:
The DT was important enough to warrant a historical place on the airframe in that museum in Italy. They put one under one of the wings. They must have felt it was important.
Krusty, what museum are you referring to? I've been at Vigna di Valle and there are no drop tanks under the Folgore or Veltro wings.
I haven't had time to do any skins for the new rides yet. I will do some for the C.202/205 as the Italians had some interesting camouflage schemes. There are also three different Italian air forces that can be skinned, plus LW and Croatian markings too. I may wait and see if other skinners want to claim some first.
I have 3 skins I'm going to immediately get started on as soon as the model is released. 
I do hope to see a skin of "Dai Banana" (Go Banana!) the Folgore of Ennio Tarantola, one of the Italian aces of WWII
http://digilander.iol.it/enniotarantola/TarantolaVelC202Profili.htmhttp://www.ipgp.fr/~tarantola/Files/Familiar/Ennio_Tarantola/index.html
