Vertigo Studios Spad development shots

[Dimus]

This does look like an amazing model!

I am just wondering about the overwing Lewis gun. It was certainly non-standard and the few references I've seen show it mounted lower and slightly offset to clear the prop disk.



I wonder if the Lewis was an RFC requirement only like the one above. I'm sure Vertigo have done their research and know more.

[Stickshaker]

Here is a screenshot of the Bessonneau Hanger, that Deano is working on for a small WWI era airfield he is working on for the SPAD and Nieuport 17....Another piece of history I am patiently waiting for.

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I would buy the plane just to get the airfield! Hopefully this will increase interest in WWI planes.

[Scratch]

This is a must buy for me. I hope there is a paint to honor this guy who has always been one of my heroes: http://www.wwiaviation.com/aces/ace_Guynemer.html

[trucker17]

I'm not sure how many repaints will come with this plane.
But I am sure some one will make a repaint of his plane.

[Bomber_12th]

Guynemer's Spad is likely to be the most famous of them all to depict. One of his original WWI Spads still exists, on display at Le Bourget (an original, not a copy).

[lucas81]

Nice project! Great that more WW1 planes are coming. Besides that, we have 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of WW1 in a couple of days.
As for the upper Lewis gun, this was a kind of option, used mostly on British-built S7's. Spad 7's were mainly armed with a single Vickers gun. Other options were Le Prieur rockets and sometimes she was carrying small bombs mounted on the gear struts. Judging from the screenshots, Vertigo will provide the British model (Brit gauges installed). On the other hand, it looks like an early model of the plane, powered by the 150HP Hispano-Suiza or one of the first batches with 180HP Hisso, because it is lacking radiator shutters on the front. One of the most important WW1 planes, no doubt about that, used from the Fall 1916 until the end of the war.
Good luck with the project!
Lucas