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[murphyaa]

The SM.79 is gonna take a while. These Italian camo schemes are killing me. Aparently each aircraft manufacturer had their own paint scheme, and didn't use anybody elses, and Savoia Marchetti had the most drunk 5-year-olds per plane.

[Butelczynski]

Yes,they did have camo regulations open to interpretation and of course everyone with spray gun is an artist (see graffiti anywhere).
On other hand there are some solid color paint schemes (like solid green) when all "artists" called in sick.

[murphyaa]

I'm working on this one right now, and all I can say is...ouch

[elliottsprings]

Hi Murph:
I just finished your Spad XIII (Rickenbacker version) and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed this kit! It is excellent and went together very well. The large size was also a nice change from the miniscule 1/100 kits I've been struggling with lately. Here are a couple of pictures of the final result.
I would recommend this kit highly to anyone interested.

thanks again,

Hank

[Don Boose]

Superb craftsmanship on this beautiful and historic aircraft, Hank. Extraordinarily clean and precise job on Eddy Rickenbacker's SPAD XIII.

Does your screen name have anything to do with Elliott White Springs?

If so, is there an 85 Squadron RFC/RAF S.E.5 or a 148th Aero Sopwith Camel in the future?

Don

[MichaelS]

You beat me to it Don. As soon as I saw his screen name I also thought of Elliot White Springs. Very nice SPAD. I also have this one and Frank Luke's from Murph.

[elliottsprings]

Thanks for the nice compliments.
I did steal the name "Elliott Springs" for my screen name. I use that because it is easy to remember and he was such an interesting character.
If I could find good models of his SE-5 or Sopwith Camel I would love to build them. (I do have the old plastic Renwal "Aero Skin" version of his Se-5 that I bought off E-Bay)

cheers,

Hank

[Yale]

Springs was indeed fascinating. After WWI he went to Paris, where he hung out with assorted literary figures, aspiring to become a writer himself. He did write a few novels of WWI aviation. But at the same time, his father begged him to return to the States, to take over the family linen business. Only when Dad died, did Springs give in. Even then, Springs kept his hand in writing through active participation in advertising and promotion. Many of his magazine ads are double-entendre classics, such as the fetching Indian lass accepting a dollar from the exhausted brave on the sheet -- with the caption "Another buck well spent on a Springmade sheet." Springs' book "Clothes Make the Man" remains a classic, too.

[Don Boose]

I remember the Springmade sheet advertisements. In the 50s, when I read Diary of an Unknown Aviator, I do not think it was widely known that Springs was the author, basing the book on one of his fellow aviators who was killed in action.

Don

[gomidefilho]

Awesome and clean build!!!