[WWI] Eduard's new Spad

[Helen and Chris]

Yeah, you're both right.

The vast majority of people who build kits, I would have thought, don't know, or care, that a colour, size or position isn't that of current opinion.  They simply want a reasonably accurate representation.

Manufacturers are there to fulfil a need - and to make a profit.  If I want them to produce, from the box, my opinion of what the correct everything should be, then I should expect to pay not a couple of quid for it, but a couple of thousand!

DIY.

Chris.


        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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