Before there was a Nieuport 28.................

there was a Spad.  My first ever self-built model.  A stick built Guillows that remarkably came out fine.  I built it sometime in the late forties during my pre-teens. I loved the scalloped trailing edges and the paint scheme.  I painted it just like it looked on the box.  



I wish I had it now.  It could have been one of many that Teddy Langford and I doused with lighter fluid, set them ablaze and launched on their last flight.  

That was then, this is now.  Got me on a Spad search.  It wasn't difficult to find examples on the net:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Guillows-model-Kit-100-Series-102-WW-I-French-SPAD-Fighter-Copyright-1957-/282124644343?hash=item41aff06ff7:g:WYwAAOSwdzVXpTAX

But my shaky fingers are a problem when assembling so I decided on something a bit less fussy.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hawk-model-Co-No-54-Spad-C13-new-old-stock-1940s-/121894855329?hash=item1c617fe2a1:g:~sUAAOSwezVWwNOk#shpCntId

Last Guillows I built was a Nieuport 17, didn't turn out to bad.  Prior to that was my venerable N-28 alluded to several times here on these very pages.  Maybe some day I will give Teddy a call and relive old times.