Nieuport Ni.17

[NickT]

Here are some photos of my just finished Nieuport 17.

It was built from the Eduard kit for the Knights of the Air Group Build over on ARC. The in-progress shots can be found at

KotA Link

Nick

Edited December 15, 2009 by NickT

[ta152h]

Here are some photos of my just finished Nieuport 17.

It was built from the Eduard kit for the Knights of the Air Group Build over on ARC. The in-progress shots can be found at

KotA Link

Nick

Nice work!

[Antoine]

Well, no need to quote all the post, pics included to say "nice work"!

Beautiful work, the aluminium coat in itself deserved a price.

I'll dig ASAP in your SBS.

[Doug Rogers]

Wowser! That looks really nice Nick.

[Maxidad]

That's really something. I had a look at the build thread on ARC - nice work on the seat and cockpit.

The alu/dope (whatever it is) finish is beautiful - what did you use?

[Bobs_Buckles]

Nick,

That is one fine looking Ni17. I'm guessing you used alclad II for the silver dope?

Thanks for sharing.

BVB

[NickT]

Thanks for all the kind comments.

The silver dope was indeed Alclad. The fabric areas were painted with white aluminium, decalled and then sprayed with satin varnish. The metal areas around the cowling/engine were painted just in duralinium with no varnish or anything, to keep the metal effect.

Thanks to Bob as well, I used his rigging buckles and it made the job of rigging a lot easier.

Nick

[Martian]

Gorgeous effort, lovely clean build.

Martin