The Macchi M.C.205V Veltro was an Italian Second World War fighter.
It was fast, maneuverable and heavily armed, and it is considered the best Italian airplane of the WWII.
The brilliant features of the Macchi M.C.205V Veltro were looked with respect by the Luftwaffe too, and indeed they used some Veltro to equip one Gruppe.
Adriano Visconti, the best Italian Ace with 26 kills, gained 11 of its 26 kills with the Veltro, while the record with this plane goes to the "sergente maggiore" Luigi Gorrini, with 14 kills plus six more enemies damaged.
But the Veltro was complex to build, and expensive, just like the British Supermarine Spitfire, and for these reasons it was never produced in large quantities.

Quoting Wikipedia, "the C.205 was a single-seat, all-metal, monoplane fighter, intended primarily as an interceptor but with ground attack and escort capabilities. The long nose housed the DB605 engine which drove a three-blade, constant-speed metal propeller, with the main fuel tank situated between the engine and the cockpit. The radiator was located under the centre section of the fuselage beneath the cockpit while the short rear section housed the radio equipment, oxygen cylinder and an 80 L (20 US gal) reserve fuel tank. The wings were made of light aluminium alloys and steel, having two spars and three sections, housing two additional fuel tanks, and the fully retractable wide-set main undercarriage gear."

THE KIT
The kit is the 1/72 scale by Italeri. It is a nice kit but not the state of the art. It has recessed panel lines, but the cockpit is a little crude.
For the mottling i first airbrushed the darker color, then masked it with some small blue Tack bubble and sprayed the lighter color.