A couple of pictures is okay, but if you're going to keep it up I would really appreciate it if you started your own thread.

Upper wing mounted. This one was a bit different. Since the cabanes slope at odd angles I had to do the struts first, then make sure the wings were properly aligned, then build the cabanes, one piece of brass wire at a time.

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All that's left now is the guns, some touch-up paint and the rigging.

No, but only just. There was at least one Bristol Scout with a big spinner. The drawback was severely reduced cooling airflow over the engine. On the other hand it must not have been too bad because there is no evidence that they ever removed them.

And another one's in the bag - or in this case, the case.

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RNAS serial number.
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Originally the wing-mounted gun was fired by the observer. Later they rigged them to a trigger so the pilot could fire it. The observer still had to change the drum for him.
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This part I'm really excited about. I bought some blank decal paper some time ago, planning on a special project. I was worried about getting it right, but now the worries are over. As an experiment I used my favorite desktop publishing program, PageStream, to make a batch of Morane-Saulnier logos. I imported a couple of good close-up photos, and used PageStream's built-in drawing program to trace both MS and Pfalz emblems, since Pfalz built exact copies of MS aircraft and even made their own variant of the MS badge. I test-printed them on paper, and when it came out good I went ahead and printed them on the decal paper. To my surprise they came out even better, and after the ink was thoroughly dried I put a dab of Micro-Scale's Liquid Decal Film on each one - 30 bronze and 30 black of each emblem. Once that was dry I cut out two of the black MS logos and there they are. :sunny:
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Next Project: A Twofer - a pair of Nieuport N.10s. All of Nieport's early planes were low-wing monoplanes. A handful of N.IVs went with the Italian army to Libya in 1911 along with some Bleriot XIs. In 1914 the N.VI and N.X were among the planes doing reconnaissance for the French Armee de l'Aire. Nieuport took the N.X airframe and rebuilt it as a biplane, naming it the N.10b. These were further subdivided into the N.10 AV (observer in the front) and N.10 AR (observer in the rear). In both cases the only gun was mounted to the upper wing, and the observer had to stand to fire it. In the case of the AV there was a hole in the top wing for the observer to brace himself while shooting. The N.10b would eventually have the more conventional arrangement of the observer in the rear, with a rearward-firing gun mounted on a ring, but not until much later.

The kit comes with separate wing center sections, so the AV is an option, and one I couldn't pass up.

It didn't take long before pilots figured out that they could sit in the rear cockpit and fire the gun straight ahead, and the N.10c1, the first Nieuport single-seat fighter, was born. The second kit will represent the Chasseur, or fighter version.

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Nieuport 10s were used by France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Finland and Serbia.

Interiors finished and ready for assembly.

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Fuselages and Tailplanes. The two-seater has a Gnome Monosoupape (single-valve) rotary engine held in a front-and-rear brace. The single-seater has a Le Rhone rotary braced only at the rear.

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Lower wings, landing gear, primary paint coat.

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realy nice work Steve i like your models

Thank you. I keep trying to improve them. I still have a long way to go before I've built everything I require for the game.

Great stuff, your painting/finishing style reminds me of a Toy Soldiers book I had as kid. Wish I still had that book.

And blah blah blah... :O:


NO! Just kidding. I love getting feedback, especially when it's positive. Thank you. :sunny:

I didn't get anything done yesterday. Spent the day working on computer stuff and practicing music.

Today the upper wings are mounted, and the wood parts - struts, landing gear and tail skid are painted. All that's left are the details - propellers, pilots - decals and the rigging.

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Decals are on, some more details painted. Still a ways to go.

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