Balloon Buster (Spad XIII)

Greg Baker
Oh boy, this one is gonna be a challenge...

Skyhiker
Let's see what you can do with it. Good luck!

Skyhiker
You should rig your biplanes. You have the skills for it.

Buckley Models
You have the patience of a saint to be building that - I imagine it's much better than the old Airfix moulding of the SPAD XIII anyway.

Greg Baker
Once you cut off all the flash, there's a half decent kit under there. I've built the Academy kit a few times, so I can already see a few things I like better. The fit is as suspect as I suspected, but I think I can handle it… so we'll go for rigging as well.

Spanjaard
i am in 🙂
great to see you back on a new project

Moreno Baruffini
Wow! I'm glad also to see you back!

Jennifer Franklin
following 👀

Matthew A
Is that wood veneer?

bughunter
Wow Greg, you have kits whose manufacturer I didn't even know. But this is a numbered limited edition. You can't build something like that - it's only for collectors to increase its value!

Uwe Kaeding
Good luck Greg - I've built a Meikraft kit before (and have some more in the stash) and they can be a bit of a challenge. The definition of short run kits! They do turn into nice models if you put the effort in to clean them up first.

Michael Kohl
And where is Tintin? 😉

Greg Baker
Thanks everyone! I'm glad to be back. I have been working on redoing/repairing/upgrading most of my Tintin models. But now that I'm more or less at the finish line (just a couple more to go), I'm starting to get an itch to do another project. I have a couple of Area 88 1/144 scale projects sitting on the shelf of doom, but I find it easiest to get the juices flowing again by taking on something new. I picked up this kit about a year ago at a swap meet and have had it rolling around in the back of my head ever since, so I thought "why not give it a go?"

Greg Baker
Matthew - Yes... I think it is wood veneer... I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it though...

Greg Baker
bughunter - Haha. Too late! I believe that kits need to fulfil their destiny and be built. Otherwise, what's the point?

Greg Baker
Uwe - This is my first time trying one, but it certainly lives up to the term "short run". Hopefully I'll be able to find the diamond under all that rough.

Greg Baker
Michael - He's never far away. 🙂 You can find my newest Tintin project, my 3D printed Ford Model-T, right here -Tintin in the Congo (Ford Model T) | Album by strobez (1:72)

Alex K
Another SPAD, by Meikraft and not the Academy one? I'm in!!!

Nicolas
I'm watching.

Pierre Pierre
following

Alec K
Taking a seat 👍