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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Completed models => Topic started by: DaveB on December 06, 2024, 10:17:51 PM

Title: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: DaveB on December 06, 2024, 10:17:51 PM

Another project just completed which was undertaken during my museum build of the Pup.

Built mostly OOB with some minor details to cockpit, undercarriage and guns.  Did run into some issues (of my own making but not helped by some vague instructions) and model seemed to fight me a bit but got there in the end.    Brush painted as always to represent mount of Charles Nungesser, August 1918.

(https://i.imgur.com/Uh6vDb4.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/pGmZ407.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/8jkDeAQ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/N9tpPpq.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/S0rXrQM.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/yBczf5z.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/GoXCMDM.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/yUQ71mS.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/aDVlw1k.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/UHxinuI.jpg)

Regards

Dave

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: PrzemoL on December 06, 2024, 11:32:28 PM

Nice and colourful, thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: DaddyO on December 06, 2024, 11:59:56 PM

Nice one Dave  :)

Spad's are just fabulous aircraft albeit a bit of a pain to build in smaller scales

Paul

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: Borsos on December 07, 2024, 02:16:09 AM

Very nice SPAD. I Like your choice of the camouflage colors.

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: macsporran on December 07, 2024, 02:25:18 AM

Nice one, Dave.
Great to see this one getting built, after us requesting this kit from Roden. Trouble is getting good alternative decals for it. I've just been lucky enough to get the last Frank Luke set from Aviattic (Thank you Richard) and a nice ffsmc set for de Turenne, so I'll be doing a twin build of early and late SPADs once I get the stocks cleared of current projects - but we could do with more: (hopefully Aviattic have something up their sleeves!) Maybe some of the colourful 1919 schemes?

Great wartime colours here though - standard transfers look fine too.
Sandy

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: DaveB on December 07, 2024, 03:30:48 AM

Thank you all kindly, chaps -

Sandy - Roden's latest decals are an improvement of what went before.   They are very thin and react well with softening solutions.  The downside is they are printed a bit off register, brittle so break easily if not handled carefully.   Nungesser's triangular tricolour onto of fuselage was a pain to apply - it did not cope with conforming over the headrest fairing splitting and cracking - I ended up repainting over this decal to tidy up.

Regards

Dave

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: gedmundson on December 07, 2024, 06:00:14 AM

Nicely done, Dave - looks great!
Cheers,
Gary

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: Rookie on December 07, 2024, 09:09:05 AM

This a great looking model Dave, well done!

Willem

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: NigelR on December 07, 2024, 07:34:29 PM

Very nicely done, the Spad can be a challenging build. You did a great job with those doubled wires that pass through the struts, not and easy thing to pull off.

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: dr 1 ace on December 09, 2024, 02:47:13 AM

Dittos to all the above !

Ed

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: DaveB on December 10, 2024, 06:13:33 AM

Cheers, Gary, Willem, Nigel and Ed!

Regards

Dave

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: lone modeller on December 13, 2024, 04:11:52 AM

Late to the party as ever Dave: that is another first class model from your hangar. Very colourful and I would never have notoced that you had problems with some of the transfers.

Looking forward to seeing this one for real.

Stephen.

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: WD on December 14, 2024, 06:56:24 AM

I love Spads!
This is lovely.
Too bad about the decals.

Warren

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: Monty on December 16, 2024, 04:12:40 AM

A really beautiful build, Dave! Some great colours and very neat. Marc

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: RAGIII on December 17, 2024, 11:00:23 AM

Very well done! This is not an Easy build as I can attest to! I am 1 for 2! Lovely work on the painting as always!
RAGIII

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: DaveB on December 19, 2024, 04:50:18 AM

Thank you all very kindly, chaps - appreciated!

Regards

Dave

Title: Re: 1/32 Roden Spad XIII Late varient
Post by: Brad Cancian on December 22, 2024, 09:03:38 AM

Excellent work on what I hear is a challenging kit! I do like your choice of Nungesser's mount; truly an individual who lived a comic book life, I wonder why there hasn't been more out there in literature or popular culture describing his exploits.

In any case, well done, sir!

Cheers,

Brad C