Eduard Nieuport 17 (Part one)

[DaddyO]

Morning all

Managed to complete this one last night which was the first one of a pair I've been working on (see thread Another attempt at a Nieuport)

 

Basically I started this one last year and made a pigs ear of the finishing so it was broken up and used as a test model. Whilst working on the second version I decided to resurrect it and sanded all the finish down, re-primed and rebuilt using some aftermarket decals. A few added details such as pipes and wheel hubs, but otherwise as Mr Eduard intended (I did carve a wooden prop from laminations of plywood though) 😉

 

Here's a few pics to look at -

 

 

For anyone who wasn't aware and thought the prancing horse looked familiar. . . . Enzo approached the family of Count Baracca (who's aircraft this is) and asked if he could use the horse as his emblem on the cars he was building 🙂 I thought the story was cool and so chose this scheme rather than one of the others on the decal sheet; after all I've still got a couple of Nieuport 23's on the shelf (which is basically the same aircraft with a few tweaks) so I could always build another one . . . after these two)

 

Todlepip

Paul

[Epeeman]

Excellent work on your N17, Paul -

 

Well rigged too.  I also like your choice of Italian markings for one of Barraca's machines.

 

Regards

 

Dave

[DaddyO]

1 hour ago, Epeeman said:

Excellent work on your N17, Paul -

 

Well rigged too.  I also like your choice of Italian markings for one of Barraca's machines.

 

Regards

 

Dave

Thanks Dave

(There was a practical reason for the choice in that I couldn't match the green of the Italian roundel transfers on the Print Scale decal sheet - so win, win) 😀

[Spitfire31]

Very neat work! It looks a lot bigger than the coin suggests…

 

Kind regards,

 

Joachim

[Courageous]

Very nice, just the right amount of weathering in my book.

 

Stuart

[DaddyO]

7 hours ago, Spitfire31 said:

Very neat work! It looks a lot bigger than the coin suggests…

 

Kind regards,

 

Joachim

Cheers Joachim, appreciate it 👍

 

5 minutes ago, Courageous said:

Very nice, just the right amount of weathering in my book.

 

Stuart

 

Thanks Stuart

I'm always wary of overdoing it so decided to stop before I thought I'd done enough (I can always add more, but it's a devil to take off) 😀

[Roberto]

Beautiful work!

[MACALAIN]

On 14/08/2022 at 11:02, DaddyO said:

Morning all

Managed to complete this one last night which was the first one of a pair I've been working on (see thread Another attempt at a Nieuport)

 

Basically I started this one last year and made a pigs ear of the finishing so it was broken up and used as a test model. Whilst working on the second version I decided to resurrect it and sanded all the finish down, re-primed and rebuilt using some aftermarket decals. A few added details such as pipes and wheel hubs, but otherwise as Mr Eduard intended (I did carve a wooden prop from laminations of plywood though) 😉

 

Here's a few pics to look at -

 

 

For anyone who wasn't aware and thought the prancing horse looked familiar. . . . Enzo approached the family of Count Baracca (who's aircraft this is) and asked if he could use the horse as his emblem on the cars he was building 🙂 I thought the story was cool and so chose this scheme rather than one of the others on the decal sheet; after all I've still got a couple of Nieuport 23's on the shelf (which is basically the same aircraft with a few tweaks) so I could always build another one . . . after these two)

 

Todlepip

Paul

Nice little thing.

 

Alain

[Wulfman]

What a little beauty !

 

Wulfman

[DaddyO]

3 hours ago, MACALAIN said:

Nice little thing.

 

Alain

 

1 hour ago, Wulfman said:

What a little beauty !

 

Wulfman

 

Thank you both gents 😁