The supreme "boom and zoom" fighter of its day. Not the most maneuverable, it would climb to altitude fast, drop down into a formation, dive the hell out of there. I made two Spad 13's in a deal with Arizona Models, I'd build them a 12th scale Spad, and they'd send me a 6th scale kit free.  I started with the 12th scale, and it was tough because the nose section had no solid "you connect this to that, and the toe bone to the thigh bone," etc. Had to create and position braces working off the blueprints. Did a Frank Luke build, one of the few where there were enough pictures that I could get it roughly close to scale.

But when I started on the 6th scale, I knew the tricky parts and could plan the construction much better.  I wanted to do a plane from the 93rd Aero Squadron because their insignia is so cool.  But I couldn't find good pictures from enough angles to do a true match, except fr the infamous number 1, whose pilot defected to the Germans.  So I did a mostly standard 5-color scheme, took a bunch of very rough insignia and did a trace-over in Corel Draw, then roughed it up in Corel PhotoPaint and arbitrarily chose number 12.  If some erudite scholar digs up the fact that number 12 was flown by notorious traitor Eric Von Fink, who spent his Sunday afternoons strafing French convents and orphanages, I'd rather not know, thank you.

This one was a real pleasure to build, 6th scale being easier to detail. I used small screws for the panel rivets, and the kit came with a lovely set of heavy brass fittings for the struts and rigging. The tope wing isn't even glued on, held completely in place by the rigging.