[WWI] Eduard's new Spad

[Frederick Miles]

Rember when you repaint them, paint added weight.  I often wonder how much faster the "Flying Circus" would have been had they not gone gaudy, of course the pilot's plane had to be identified from the ground for a pilot to get credit for a kill,  Where as an allied pilot had to merely get ground confirmation that an enemy plane went down near where he claimed. goaw


--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Crawford Neil <Neil.Crawford at volvo.com> wrote:

> From: Crawford Neil <Neil.Crawford at volvo.com>
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Eduard's new Spad
> To: "'World War I Modeling Mailing List'" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 11:45 PM
> I think there was a good deal of colour variation, and like
> gaow say's
> they started darker before ataining the greyish-blue colour
> that we are
> used to. I'd probably repaint them.
> /Neil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org
> > [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of
> > albatrosdiii at surewest.net
> > Sent: den 1 oktober 2008 18:38
> > To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
> > Subject: [WWI] Eduard's new Spad
> >
> >     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
> >
> > Why pay money to have your family tree
> > traced?  Go into politics, and your
> > opponents will do it for you.
> >                         --Mark Twain
> >
> >
> >