This is a paintable 1:144 scale model of an Ansaldo A.1 Balilla. Since many painters choose their own mounting system, no peg is included on the plane. Pegs can be purchased separately in the Accessories section of this catalog.

Though the prototype for the Ansaldo A.1 _Balilla _("Hunter") flew in late 1917, there followed a series of adjustments, each of which required another pass through formal testing. By July 1918 the focus was on promotional photographs with famous aces, though 1600 _Balillas _had been ordered back in January. The first planes reached 91ª _Squadriglia _on 28 June 1918. Pilots found them difficult to handle and concluded they were not ready for front-line use. There followed one plane here and one plane there, and attrition was high enough to match distribution to the point that only a single A.1 was on 70ª Squadriglia strength at the Armistice. Thirteen A.1s had been delivered in the first half of 1918 and 153 in the rest of the year.

A.1s were purchased by Poland after the war but delays and distribution problems continually arose and order volumes continually dropped. Latvia, the Soviet Union, and others experimented with the A.1 but the planes rarely lasted long, even in a training capacity. The full list includes Argentina, El Salvador, Greece, Honduras, Latvia, Mexico, Peru, Poland, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Spain, the United States, Uruguay, and Yemen.

For more data and gaming info on this plane, see https://linen.miraheze.org/wiki/Ansaldo_A.1_Balilla.