1/32 Roden SPAD VII c.1 with Russian Skies 617 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Crystal clear styrene plastic construction

Crystal clear styrene plastic construction for detailed study

It had reinforced armor and updated hull designs

Model Information:

observer/nose gunner

Item No: 80148

1/32 Roden SPAD VII c.1 with Russian Skies 617 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Crystal clear styrene plastic constructionIn early 1916 a competition was announced among French aircraft builders to design a fighter which would be able to counter the new German Fokker E. II Eindecker. One of the aircraft presented in the competition had an engine derived from the new V shaped Hispano Suiza automobile engine developed by the Swiss engineer Marc Birkigt. The biplane box was borrowed from the SPAD A2, now freed from that aircraft's forward cabin. This plane was called the