[WWI] Eduard's new Spad

[Frederick Miles]

The blue started as dark but faded to the light blue gray just like WW11 US Navy planes.  Told to me by Rickenbacker. goaw


--- On Wed, 10/1/08, albatrosdiii at surewest.net <albatrosdiii at surewest.net> wrote:

> From: albatrosdiii at surewest.net <albatrosdiii at surewest.net>
> Subject: [WWI] Eduard's new Spad
> To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 9:37 AM
> I picked this up at my LHS yesterday and really think it
> looks like a nice kit.  The problem is the decals.  I
> haven't seen anyone comment that the blue is all wrong
> for French markings.  I thought the French had a lighter,
> grayish-blue tone whereas the Eduard's decals are dark
> blue.  This isn't a "fatal flaw" of the kit,
> but I'm surprised that there hasn't been a huge
> outcry from the Franco-philes.  BTW, I really like the
> spider scheme!!
>  
> Rick O'Lishous
> 
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