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For my next trick, I'll be building one of Eduard's apparently excellent 1/72 Nieuport 17s; I have a deep fondness for the Nieuport fighters of World War I, which is a perfectly normal thing that nobody should look askance at. I'm building Nie.17 A313, which was issued to 1 Squadron at Ballieul on 4 January 1917 and lost in action over Coulin, near Wavrin, on 22 April 1917, the first of five victory claims by Leutnant August Hanko of Jasta 28. Lieutenant AW Wood, the pilot, was wounded, but survived to be taken prisoner. As there were three AW Woods with the RAF at the close of hostilities, I have been unable to determine anything further of Lieutenant Wood's fate, and welcome any light that anyone can shed on his subsequent movements. He doesn't appear to have remained with the RAF in the postwar era. Eduard, in their infinite wisdom, have issued the kit without any RFC marking options, but why would they? Virtually all of the top British and Canadian aces, Mannock, McCudden, Ball, Bishop, etc etc, flew it, so there's tons of options and zero competition. But no. Presumably in revenge for Munich, the kit includes markings only for French subjects, and their Nie.23 boxing includes only Belgian, Russian, and Czech markings. Little...devils. Fortunately, Blue Rider have ridden to the rescue on an azure horse straight out of a Kandinsky painting, presumably, and sell a sheet of markings for RFC machines. It will be noted that this is about 20-25% of the total aftermarket RFC decals out there, excluding Pegasus's lovely generic RFC roundels and serials sets. However, when I looked closely at the sheet, the red centers appear to be misaligned: Can you see it too? Is it just me? Well, go figure, the Pegasus decals are terrific, but do not include the French-proportioned Nieuport-style roundels. So what's a fellow to do? I'm going to use some Xtradecal RAF roundels from the sixties, that's what. The blue is a bit too dark, but it's what I have, and any port in a storm. I contemplated cutting out the red from the BR decals and patching over the hole with Xtradecals, but my hands are not steady and it seems a recipe for disaster, all told. Moving along: We have our PE seat assembled, more or less, and it only looks wonky if you get this close. I'm pretty pleased with myself here. I also sanded down the sides of the fuselage interior in preparation for the PE detail to be added, and primered it white.