[WWI] Eduard's new Spad

[David & Jeanne Layton]

No, I was once dinged pretty heavily by judges at a WWI modeling show in 96
for using the cockades from Ministry of Small Aircraft decals as the
cockades were not of the proper proportion.  I am actually looking forward
to the new Eduard kit once it arrives at my local shop, CRM Hobbies
(unsolicited plug.)

 

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From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
Behalf Of Douglas Anderson
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [WWI] Eduard's new Spad

 


Diego is right. At some stage we will have to stop expecting too much from a
manufacturer. They are there to make money and research delays production
and is a cost. What next, expecting kity manufacturers to grow bonzai
plantations for scale wood?

--- On Fri, 10/3/08, Diego Fernetti <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar> wrote:

From: Diego Fernetti <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar>
Subject: Re: [WWI] Eduard's new Spad
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 2:56 PM

> I have only seen a small photo of the decal sheet.  I want to know if
Eduard
> got the cockade diameters in the correct proportions for a SPAD.
 
Depends from which Spad manufacturer is the marking...
Speaking of... are we getting a bit (meaning, a lot) anal regarding this?
After all, it's a superb kit of a well known WW1 fighter, down to the last
rivet.
Does it matter too much if the blue is two shades off... off something we
don't really know how it was; and the proportion of the central dot is
about
half millimeter larger than it should be?
It's fine to try to be as accurate as possible. But I think it's unfair
to
expect that accuracy comes right out of the box.
D.
 

 

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