Nieuport X 1:32

[RAGIII]

Brilliant work on drilling and mounting the front bearing> Love this build.
RAGIII

[RLWP]

Thank you

A bit more progress



I have rigged the cockpit interior, this time using small diameter steel piano wire. It's the right colour, stays straight and is available. Makes a mess of your cutters though.

I've been worrying about the interior details because I have no details. I am having to make up what is there based on the pictures of the Nieuport IV that I have. This means that I'm mostly inventing what is in there, which is rather uncomfortable. Also, I think I have got the seats too large again. I've decided to stop worrying about all this and carry on, otherwise I'll never finish this build

Anyway, with the wind shields in place, you can't see a lot of the interior:



Oh, I've closed up the rear of the fuselage too and added the board behind the cockpit. The IV has this, and I've seen images of the pilot standing here on an X, so I have included it

Richard

[lone modeller]

This is superb scratch building. Do not worry too much about uncertain details - the only person likely to know if there is a problem is you as most other people will be too busy admiring the rest of you handiwork.

Stephen.

[RAGIII]

I have to agree with Stephen about the details. What you are doing with this build is incredible. Looking forward to your next update!
RAGIII

[Borsos]

It's quite a while since my last comment and I can honestly say you made fantastic progress. I love the way you are building up the interior into the fuselage as a whole (rather than building the fuselage in two halves) and for me the seats don't look too large at all. Just to the contrary: When compairing many kit seats to resin figures of the same scale I frequently wonder how they should squeeze their bottoms into these tiny things. And regarding the missing details - what would be the alternative than not to build a model of an airplane at all of which not each and every detail of the interior is known. that would be very sad and would bring us a very limited range of WWI models as there are too often so many questions unanswered...
Borsos

[Des]

This is coming together beautifully Richard, your attention to detail is quite evident.

Des.

[RLWP]

Controls:



This is the heel support, rudder bar and control stick all sitting on a couple of crossbars

There's a huge change between this aeroplane and the biplanes that followed. All of these early monoplanes had three steel structures in the cockpit and steel cross supports with those little heel supports. The biplanes that followed had only wooden framing and wooden heelboards

Richard

[Manni]

Hats off!!! Richard,you have realy masterclass scratch building skills.
Manni

[RLWP]

Trial fit of stick in the cockpit:



I'm getting a bit bored with designing Nieuport X cockpit details, so I thought I'd have a go at the tail

This is a bit like making balsa aeroplanes:



The outside is made from 0.8mm half round strip (a happy accident), the 'ribs' are 0.5mm round.

I stuck the frame to a piece of 0.005" styrene sheet:



Then skinned the other side. Finally, I sanded the edges and rubbed my fingers up and down the ribs:



I'm pleased with that

Richard

[bobs_buckles]

...and so you should be 
Excellent update.

cheers,
von B

[Adam]

Excellent.

Adam.

[RAGIII]

Outstanding work with the tail plane! Looks perfect!
RAGIII

[Juan]

Only getting better.  All looking wonderful.

[lone modeller]

I would have been pleased with that tail unit too if I had made it. The cockpit controls also look first class.

Stephen.

[IanB]

I'd be very pleased with that! I hope it doesn't warp.....

Ian