Topic: Spad X111 info wanted for new build.

I am about to build a 1/3rd scale Arizona models Spad X111.
I am after any info on this aircraft that will help me in its construction and in the finish detail.
I am hopefully going to complete it in the colours of Maggiore Francesco Baracca



This is a big project for me but I am looking forward to doing it.
I will update as I progress. With some luck the Short kit should be with me soon.

Simon

I presume thats Barraccas scheme then Simon. Love that bottom wing paintwork, is that standard or only on this machine?

Ian.

I presumed that the under wing paintwork is standard Ian. The prancing horse was  his markings. Upon his death his mother gave the logo to Enzo Ferrari apparently.
I love the colours on the wings . Nice and different.

Simon

Hi,
I can recommend these two sites:
http://memorial.flight.free.fr/SpadXIIIuk.html
http://www.pbase.com/debetencourt/image/44008001
Used these when finishing my 1/4 scale Spad XIII cpmpsoite kit from Aero FZD.
Richard B.

The colours don't look right for his machine, which had a camoflage scheme on the fuselage and the top surface of the wings, and the prancing horse is on a white background

Details

but the red and green on the underside of the lower wings seem correct, but with the 'white' section as unpainted linen.

Edit:

July 1915 – November 1918

The black circles and stripes are replaced by two colored fields on the underside of the wings (both wings on a biplane), red to port and green to starboard. The center third of the wing panel was left in the aircraft’s factory finish, usually CDL early in the war and aluminum dope later on. Rudders began to carry vertical stripes of green-white-red (or the reverse) at the same time. The tricolor underwing scheme was used throughout the war, but it became somewhat less common after the official adoption of the cockade.

Aircraft supplied to Italy by the French came with cockades in the usual French positions. It is unclear if they were marked in Italian colors at the factory, re-painted upon their arrival or - perhaps more likely - both. Italian manufacturers began to use the symbol as well, and top-surface wing cockades are seen in conjunction with the lower-surface tricolor. In December 1917, after two years of use, the cockade was made the official marking. Strangely, it appears that a color-order was never specified.

A very good site I recommend is The Aerodrome some very knowledgeable people on there

Simon, is that the kit your mate bought at Barkston?  Looking forward to the build 

Simon, is that the kit your mate bought at Barkston?  Looking forward to the build 

No Shaun. He (Terry) is building a Spad V11 which as you say he sorted at Barkston. He is well on the way with that one. All 4 wings are built, the tail plane is built and work has started on the Fuselage.
Very similar planes though.

Simon

No Shaun. He (Terry) is building a Spad V11 which as you say he sorted at Barkston. He is well on the way with that one. All 4 wings are built, the tail plane is built and work has started on the Fuselage.
Very similar planes though.

Simon

Awwww booga, 4 wing panels done and no build thread 

I hope you will be doing one on your machine once you gather all the info you need, sorry I have no info that may be of any use  .

Awwww booga, 4 wing panels done and no build thread 

I hope you will be doing one on your machine once you gather all the info you need, sorry I have no info that may be of any use  .

Terry is not one for doing that. I will endeavour to do something with my one.

Simon

Simon, I have some documentation that may help, let me know if you need it?

Steve

Simon, I have some documentation that may help, let me know if you need it?

Steve

Hi Steve
I am glad of anything at the moment that will help.

Simon