[WWI] 1/28 Spad on LSP

[Diego Fernetti]

Terrists and their bleedin' terrariums be damneth! May Gott smothe them!
D.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ernest thomas 
  To: World War I Modeling Mailing List 
  Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 10:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [WWI] 1/28 Spad on LSP


  Not only that, but he probably pals around with terrist. 

  E.
  Honor and Glory to our Ancestral Gods


  > From: dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar
  > To: wwi at wwi-models.org
  > Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:17:04 -0300
  > Subject: Re: [WWI] 1/28 Spad on LSP
  > 
  > Fred!
  > > Check this out:
  > > http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=21757
  > > Looks like a nice job, eh?
  > 
  > Without knowing the modeler, I have to say I'm not too impressed.
  > First, the pilot -quite competently painted and all- doesn't look at all
  > like a WW1 era pilot (beard? earphones in the leather helmet?) I know it's
  > probably a kit part, but since the modeler seems quite competent, it looks
  > odd that he chose not to research a little and make simple modification to
  > the figure if he chose to include it in the model. Later he took it off, I
  > wonder why.
  > Besides, the added details and rigging are heavy, and the strut attachments
  > in the finished model are untidy. The rigging attachment points are
  > fictional (real airplanes had special fittings to anchor rigging, not holes
  > in the sticks) and the strut "bridges" to ease the model construction are
  > unsightly. Given all the work and skill he had to add other details he
  > should have fixed this too visible flaw first. One note: the aileron strut
  > attached in the kit part to the read interplane strut is short-cast in the
  > kit part, but he didn't corrected it.
  > The wooden parts are very nicely painted (he did a good job here) but on
  > comparing them to the many pictures of surviving airplanes they are not
  > related at all. The exhaust pipes weren't attached to the fuselage by heavy
  > brass rings neither! And to add a final comment, he weathered the fuselage
  > with assorted "oil" drips but the wheels are pristine and the "pneus" look
  > more of the modern type rather than the light gray of the period.
  > I'm curious to see that even when the modeler has made good use of many
  > techniques, and built a rather involved model, he chose to ignore any
  > reference to the real thing, when they are quite easily at reach by googling
  > "Spad" on his computer.
  > D.
  > 


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