Show us your....SPAD XIII

[KiwiZac]

Bravo Rick, it may be a simple scheme but it looks so good!

[MightyHood]

Here’s my admittedly lacking attempt at recreating Frank Luke’s #26 using the DML/Dragon 1/48 SPAD XIII Kit.


The only additions that I can recall are some styrene tubing, perhaps some copper wire (cockpit pipes and wiring) and an aftermarket decal set (which turned out to be incomplete, so I had to improvise a wee bit).  EZ line was used for rigging and Mr Colour paints used for the camouflage scheme.  Any wood grain was done using oil over acrylic.  The finish was far too dull/matte in the end.


It was admittedly very rushed, but I’m happy with it anyways though and I guess that’s what counts.  Maybe I’ll try a larger one some day.  Here are some pics:

















Thanks for looking!


Frank (MightyHood)

[Brad Cancian]

Excellent work Frank! I built one of these as a kid and I remember having fun with the etched struts (etch was a very new thing to me... so new that I had no idea how to glue it all together...!). These DML kits were a wonder of awesomeness to me back in the day. You've done cracking job.

Cheers,

BC

[RAGIII]

Excellent SPAD and one of the Nicest builds of the DML kit I have seen! Great work Frank!
RAGIII

[KiwiZac]

I'm at a loss as to how this build is "lacking", Frank - you do yourself a disservice. This is a lovely build of a classic!