A White SPAD (now with SPAD caddy)

[aircav]

Brilliant work 
Looking forward to seeing the finished article if you ever get the top wing to fit 

[Wirelizard]

Looking forward to seeing the finished article if you ever get the top wing to fit 

I swore the wing into place this evening; after that the landing gear and prop were easy.

Here, the redoubtable Major Vodkanovitch inspecting the latest addition to the White arsenal.




This also gives you a look at the left hand side freehand skull on the tail.

I have some doubts about the long-term strength of the upper wing when the plane is in use as a wargaming prop, but we'll firebomb that bridge when we come to it.

In any case, the thing is basically done now, beyond a bit of touchup painting here and there and two minor structural repairs to the struts where they join the upper wing.

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Superb - thank you for showing the work-in-progress.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

[Ray Rivers]

 

Nicely done! She looks... "ace!"

[Marine0846]

Careful Major, don't get too close to the prop.
Well done, nice to see it finished.

[Ignatieff]

Tremendous work!  Go plug a Bolshie column!!!

[carlos marighela]

Lovely.

[Wirelizard]

I am almost entirely an "away" gamer, all of my games happen at other people's homes, at the gaming club on the weekend (we take over a room at the university every Sunday) or at conventions. So transportability is huge, my terrain, figures and vehicles have to be safely and securely movable or else they're useless to me.

So I sat down this evening with some scrap cardboard, half inch foam, and my glue gun to begin a SPAD caddy.



There's a rectangular hole in the front centre there to hold the landing gear and prop disc; the piece of cardboard across the front is glued in to stiffen the front, and I'll probably run a strip of cardboard around the whole thing, or at least around the two front corners just to protect the wings as well as the prop.

The scraps of foam around the tail actually hold the model in place to keep it from shifting in it's foam bed; it was easier to use the tail as the securing point than elsewhere. I'll probably run more foam down to the back corners just so the caddy is roughly boxlike and other things (like the eventual caddy to carry the Red's Nieuport) could rest on top of it.

[sukhe_bator]

Nice looking SPAD and transporter. Don't worry about 13's vs 7's. I read somewhere that some 7's were modified to have twin MGs and recieved 13 spares like tailfins and ailerons in the field. Given that the airframe was roughly the same size and the HS engine was more powerful, there is not really that much visible difference between the two.
Nothing to say you can't just use SPAD VII stats for gaming and forget the second MG