Very cool! Love the markings on these birds.

Outstanding results.  Great looking cockpit.  Nice work.

Nice!  Love the cockpit work.

Looking good Greg. Cockpit looks great.

Jim

Thanks to all for the encouraging replies!

Those look awesome Greg, love the detail in the cockpits

Outstanding work Greg. I would love to see closer photos.

Thanks all. I'll try to get closer photos, but they're the scary ones...they show all glitches.

Small progress. Wash added (and---mostly---removed). Windscreen, exhausts and Vickers gun added, the latter scratchbuilt since the kit one is essentially only 2-dimensional.

Kit's windscreen is seriously thick, but it'll do in this scale.

Next up: top wing and (gulp) rigging.

Now comes the fun part :)

Those are really looking sharp Greg!

....and don't fret the rigging too much. Just take your time and start from the inside working out. You nail those two SPADs and rigging your 1/48 Sopwith build will be a breeze by comparison.

Thanks, Mike, for the words of support.

I'm not really worried about the rigging--I've rigged a lot of bipes over the years, big and small. Once I'd fully rigged the old Revell 1/72 DH-2, I knew I could handle just about anything after that.

A DH.2!? In 1/72?! You're a brave man, Greg, and after that one, nothing should intimidate you. I haven't gone anywhere near my Eduard 1/48 version (but I do have a Wingnut Wings Fe.2b waiting in the stash).

Greg, good stuff! Can't wait to see them finished.

You know, I've rigged ships since I was a youngster (Dad was a ship modeler), but I haven't rigged a biplane in a long time. Truth be told, I'm both excited and a little nervous. But it's a good kind of stress.

Wow! excellent scratc work on both Greg :)

Work is moving along. Guynemer's wing is on (no rigging yet) and, best of all, everything is pretty much squared up and straight.

Second bird has the camouflage and a bit of weathering/detail applied, "Futured" up and waiting for decals.

Have a good weekend, all. Thanks for the nice comments.

Both SPADs are really looking sharp, Greg! That 's a lot of struts to line up, and the alignment looks perfect.

Moving along...

In a final spasm of pre-GB insanity, I decided these two wouldn't be proper SPADs without the characteristic bellcrank mechanisms that worked the SPADs' ailerons. After not finding any suitable etched leftovers that would fill the bill (honest, I looked), I decided bits of styrene and stretched sprue would do as well.

And what it looks like in place:

Rigging should be next, unless I think of something I forgot.

yer insane!

great looking builds. :)

CallSignOWL

yer insane!

great looking builds. :)

Thanks. I just do what the voices in my head tell me to do.

nuts !!!

Great job on the bellcranks Greg, nice work on such teeny-tiny parts.

I've been looking at the progress and it looks outstanding.... particularly for 1/72 scale. I can only hope that some of my future WWI 1/48 builds will turn out half as good. Please keep us updated. Thanks for posting.                                                  Bob

Insane i say too about the le micro triangles   avoided to do on my spad because too little!

Finally got these out of the way so I can proceed with my GB Sopwith BABY. Thanks to all for your encouragement and observations.

First, Capt.Georges Guynemer's well-known machine from Escadrille SPA3, Summer 1917:

The second is the SPAD VII of 5-balloon ace Sgt. Pierre Cardon of SPA81, May-June 1918. Greyhound decals from Eduard's Profipack SPAD XIII sheet.

Very Decent work.  The numbers being red on Guynemer's machine are a bit questionable. An original source say that they were green.

WOW !! Once again I want to thank you for posting the builds. You did a great job ( based on my limited experience anyhow ). A good friend of mine tells me that " Real airplanes have propellers... who wants to ride around with a lit candle stuck up their !@#$ ". He also says that " Real airplanes have two wings ". Based on the way your builds look I'm almost there !!! GREAT JOB !!           Bob

Greg: I love both of them, fine work sir!!!

Greg, those are both stellar! I mean really top-notch stuff! Can't wait to see what you do with the Sopwith.

Awesome works Greg