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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #105 on: July 27, 2017, 06:02:00 AM »
Very well done Richard.

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #106 on: July 27, 2017, 07:44:44 AM »
Thanks all

I'm still working on this, I made a couple of seats yesterday. Today I checked them and they are too big

Today I started making a couple of seats....

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #107 on: July 29, 2017, 04:57:30 AM »
Right:



Two new seats. The tank now has supports and leather straps. I'm not sure if the straps can be seen in the finished 'plane

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #108 on: July 29, 2017, 07:03:11 AM »
Brilliant work, Richard!
Cheers,
Bud
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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #109 on: July 29, 2017, 08:32:56 AM »
Brilliant work, Richard!
Cheers,
Bud

Amazingly I agree completely with My Amigo Bud!
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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #110 on: July 29, 2017, 07:02:07 PM »
A bit more on the seats:



This is the rest of the tubular frame and the leather cover which seems to have been pulled down over the back

I've also made the front tank:



That shape had me flummoxed as I couldn't work out how to make it in styrene, so I made one in balsa. Then painted it, it'll do





A few more coats of paint and it will be fine

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #111 on: July 29, 2017, 07:41:26 PM »
You definitely possess extraordinary scratchbuilding skills, Richard, thanks for sharing your very inspirational work!

Cheers

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #112 on: July 29, 2017, 07:56:14 PM »
You definitely possess extraordinary scratchbuilding skills, Richard, thanks for sharing your very inspirational work!

Cheers

Ondra

You make me blush

I think I sort of bodge stuff together and hope it works. There's always the hope that paint will make it look better in the end

Seriously, I've been making stuff all my life, so I naturally spend a lot of time thinking about how something will be made. I no longer realise that is what I am doing

Plus, I've made a lot of stuff that didn't work. Unfortunately, skills have to be hard won by a lot of disappointment

Thank you - especially you Ondra. I struggle to make things in 1:32 scale that you seem to make easily in 1:144.

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #113 on: July 31, 2017, 05:14:54 AM »
 "Unfortunately, skills have to be hard won by a lot of disappointment"

That is so true. As one who does not like making mistakes I found that a very difficult lesson to learn, but it has been ultimately worth it. I think that many others probably have this problem too but the old adage: "The person who never made a mistake never made anything" is very true. Your skills are clearly the product of a great deal of practice and no doubt many mistakes, but the outcome is superb in every case. Super bodges!!

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #114 on: August 01, 2017, 08:28:56 AM »
Shaping up nicely, Sir.

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #115 on: August 02, 2017, 09:22:19 PM »
I'm getting a bit stuck with the interior as I seem to be inventing most of it. So, for a change, here is the lovely Vector 9 Clerget:



Which, of course, wasn't meant to have the front bearing. So I've drilled it:



so it can be mounted onto a rod:



The fuselage has gained it's front mount too:



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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #116 on: August 02, 2017, 10:09:10 PM »
Splendid!

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #117 on: August 08, 2017, 11:06:03 PM »
wow nice work. gotta respect a scratch builder. this is very similar to a nieuport 4 and 6 never seen a 10 in model form. i didnt realize they used clerget engines in the noop monoplanes. will enjoy seeing this one completed

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #118 on: August 09, 2017, 02:59:12 AM »
You'll have to wait a bit, I'm on 'oliday

This weeks holiday reading is 'The War in the Air' Volume II (H Jones 1928). I thought I knew about WWI aviation...

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Re: Nieuport X 1:32
« Reply #119 on: August 09, 2017, 04:49:25 AM »
Extraordinary work Richard, enjoy your holiday, cheers.