[WWI] JMGT SPAD XII C.I

[Crawford Neil]

A good summary from Rick, praised and panned it was!
I thought Ray was a little cruel, I mean what else can a kit maker
do than follow the best plans available, publishing new plans at
the same time as you review the kit is like changing the rules as you
go.
OTOH it's an expensive kit, and it's fairer to the purchasers (us) to 
give us all the available information, so I'm certainly not complaining.
In any case just looking at the new plans, I couldn't see any visible
difference form the old ones, it's still got the longer sportier
fuselage
compared to a standard Spad, I think the wingspan is greater now,
although
how Doug reached that result is beyond me, but I don't doubt it. 
The question is whether a kit built from the old plans would be visibly
wrong? 
I'd love to do another Spad 12 from the new plans.
In fact I think I have a Pegasus kit somewhere, I should do some
comparing.
/Neil

 

-----Original Message-----
From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
Behalf Of Rick Geisler
Sent: den 30 december 2006 23:58
To: wwi at wwi-models.org
Subject: Re: [WWI] JMGT SPAD XII C.I



Warren:
>Listers,
>          Did I miss this one, or did somebody mention this on the list
>already?
>
>http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=jt1017
>
>Too rich for my blood, but IIRC their prior SPAD offerings were
supposed to
>be great.


I think this kit was mentioned briefly a couple of months ago first. It
was 
again mentioned in the last week or two reference a review in Windsock. 
Generally speaking the kit follows the old Data file plans quite well.
These 
plans are now considered inaccurate so the kit was praised and panned at
the 
same time :-) This is of course from my memory of the conversation on
the 
list and could be faulty!
Rick G.
PS: WAY TOO rich for my blood also!

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