Many years ago, maybe ten, I started three Revell 1/28th scale kits the Triplane, SPAD and the Camel. They all got quite far into being built and then stalled hard. I finished up the Triplane last year but the SPAD and Camel have sat there mocking me since. I decided to clean off The SPAD and see if I could get her across the line as well. The Camel will need to wait for another day.
First thing was to clean a decade of dust and muck off the SPAD and then get to grips with what I could really do with her. I quickly remembered exactly why I stopped work on the SPAD. Rigging. I had been using invisible thread and stretched QTips for crude turnbuckles. Much of the original rigging of the struts survived and with a little applied heat returned to an acceptable tightness. I have since used elastic thread and brass micro tube but even so it has taken about five hours to get to this stage and I still have the back wing rigging to do.
I have started on trying to get the paint to look okay, I like a weathered look of an in service machine, so I can hide a little bit. But I am limited by what I did ten years ago. This will never look as good as I thought it could when I started all those years ago but at least I will have finished it.
Here are some pics of where I'm at now.
I wonder have many folks have brought back kits that have spent years on the shelf of Doom? Any success stories?
Thanks for looking in.
Dan