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Offline DaddyO

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1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« on: July 15, 2024, 06:06:13 AM »
Evening all
Just about managed to complete this one before the Romsey show earlier today and thought I'd add a couple of quick pictures now I'm back home. It's the Eduard 'early' SPAD XIII (with the rounded wingtips) and the camouflage is copied from photo's in an article about Georges Madons career that appeared in Cross and Cockade a few years ago. Pretty out of the box apart from a couple of Gaspatch guns and struts/aileron actuators from filed and soldered brass wire (which was fun) ;)

I plonked it on a base from another model for the final pic so the RFC pilot isn't correct but lends a sense of scale (I'm just varnishing up a wooden base for the Spad but wanted to show it on a base)

Paul
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2024, 06:09:53 AM »
Pic of the painted instrument panel
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2024, 06:11:21 AM »
Struts
These are created by first sanding brass wire to an aerofoil section , then shaping and soldering before painting.
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2024, 06:12:24 AM »
Pic of model on a base with a pilot
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2024, 06:17:12 AM »
Final one to give a nice sense of scale  ;D

Rigging done with my usual monofilament and it was a tricky job with this one what with the doubled flying wires and the cross pieces in the middle pair of supports but I managed it without too much swearing  ;)

Paul
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2024, 10:59:16 AM »
Another outstanding build from your talented Hands!
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2024, 03:50:02 PM »
Very nice!
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2024, 04:39:02 PM »
Quote from: RAGIII on July 15, 2024, 10:59:16 AM
Another outstanding build from your talented Hands!
RAGIII
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Thanks RAGIII (I can see what you did there)  ;)

Quote from: Flamingo on July 15, 2024, 03:50:02 PM
Very nice!

Cheers Flamingo  :D
Most complicated rigging job so far with the extra rigging on the support struts and the double flying wires, but I managed to avoid crossing any which was pleasing. Top tip that I was given recently for those that prefer to use mono for rigging is to colour the end with a black Sharpie - makes it so much easier when you are trying to feed it through the hole  8)

Paul
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2024, 05:20:50 PM »
Cracking model, Paul. Great colour scheme too.
Rigging SPADs always terrifies me and doing so in 1/72 is way outside my comfort zone. Congratulations.
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2024, 06:38:16 PM »
Lovely work on this Paul. But you definitely need a better camera, it looks far better in the flesh than in your photos! I saw this yesterday at the IPMS Romsey show and it is a little jewel.
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2024, 06:45:57 PM »
Quote from: macsporran on July 15, 2024, 05:20:50 PM
Cracking model, Paul. Great colour scheme too.
Rigging SPADs always terrifies me and doing so in 1/72 is way outside my comfort zone. Congratulations.
Sandy

Cheers Sandy - certainly a rigging challenge, but given I picked up a Choroszy Fdh G.III yesterday it didn't put me off completely  ;)

Quote from: NigelR on July 15, 2024, 06:38:16 PM
Lovely work on this Paul. But you definitely need a better camera, it looks far better in the flesh than in your photos! I saw this yesterday at the IPMS Romsey show and it is a little jewel.

Thanks Nigel. Good to catch up yesterday as well - loved getting a closer look at the Strutter diorama you've finished recently  8)
Yep photo's aren't great (okay they're pretty terrible in truth - definitely need a new camera)  ;D

Paul

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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2024, 07:01:15 PM »
A lovely job and a great selection of colour scheme, well done!

Cheers,

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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2024, 01:13:15 AM »
Your Spad XIII is lovely, Paul -

Good choice of colour/marking scheme, too.

Regards

Dave
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2024, 01:43:42 AM »
Quote from: Brad Cancian on July 15, 2024, 07:01:15 PM
A lovely job and a great selection of colour scheme, well done!

Cheers,

BC

Cheers Brad  ;D

Quote from: DaveB on July 16, 2024, 01:13:15 AM
Your Spad XIII is lovely, Paul -

Good choice of colour/marking scheme, too.

Regards

Dave

Thanks Dave.  ;D
(I was happier with the colours used for the 'French 5 colour' scheme this time)
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Re: 1/72 Spad XIII Madon
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2024, 06:50:02 AM »
Very nice!
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