Well, I'm probably going to get a little flak for this, and if I don't, I should. :D I had a weird nightmare a couple of days ago, and I don't know if it was caused by having the TV on as I fell asleep, but I dreamed that I was one of those secondary characters in an old Scooby Doo cartoon from the sixties. In my dream, I watched helplessly as the "Ghost Pilot of Verdun" came over this little village and strafed the holy bejeebers out of the town, running off tourists, damaging buildings, and so forth.
Well, the cartoon/dream ended with me making out with Daphne
, and seeing those meddling kids solve the mystery. It turned out that this rich developer wanted to get the town cheap so he could build high rise condos and a golf course. He bought an old WW I plane, painted it white and grey, with some luminescent trim, so it would glow, and then he flew it around laughing maniacally, while wearing a long scarf, and a white pilot suit. Weird, I know, but this is MY dream. :p
The gang figured out his plan, and trashed the ghost pilot and his plane while consuming a few boxes of Scooby Snax. So, I was a little inspired when I read of this contest, and decided to do one that no one else had done yet. I saw in the downloads at FG that the SPAD XIII was offered as a black and white, and there I had my ghost plane.
I sort of threw it together, not really taking my time or adding details like rigging and such (and RATS! I just noticed that I didn't put any guns on the bloody thing!) but it is all built out of 24lb bond copy paper. WSAM was 80%, and I printed it at about 75% of that to get the Braille factor of around 1/125 scale. That's a real quarter in the pictures. My eyes hurt. Enjoy.
