Nieuport X 1:32

[Borsos]

I can only echoe what Des has written: superb soldering skills meet superb modelling skills.
Borsos

[coyotemagic]

I can only echoe what Des has written: superb soldering skills meet superb modelling skills.
Borsos

My sentiments exactly!
Cheers,
Bud

[bobs_buckles]

I can only echoe what Des has written: superb soldering skills meet superb modelling skills.
Borsos

My sentiments exactly!
Cheers,
Bud

Add me to the list 
Excellent!

vB

[RAGIII]

I can only echoe what Des has written: superb soldering skills meet superb modelling skills.
Borsos

My sentiments exactly!
Cheers,
Bud

Add me to the list 
Excellent!

vB

I guess one more won't hurt  Outstanding in every way!
RAGIII

[RLWP]

Right, the floats are fitted to the struts, and the fuselage balanced on top:





It's big!

Richard

[Juan]

Outstanding Richard, words fail me...   

[Bughunter]

I really like the floats with struts, nice result!
Have you added enough weight to the front of the floats?

Cheers,
Frank

[RLWP]

I really like the floats with struts, nice result!
Have you added enough weight to the front of the floats?

Cheers,
Frank

I'm going to cheat!

I was tempted to try to do this:



However, I'm going to do this instead:



I really like that stand under the tail float, and I have some etched spoked wheels for the temporary trolley

That's a Nieuport VI at Port Said

Richard

[lone modeller]

However you present the finished model it is going to look very good.

Stephen.

[RLWP]

Thank you Stephen

The framework for the floats has had a few fiddly bits added, and a coat of paint:



This is a bit of imagineering:



The earlier 'planes do use a hinged plate like that for wing warping. It sits at the end of a rod coming diagonally down from the cockpit where it has the control stick attached to it. I can't find such a rod on a Nieuport X, and it would be tricky to make it work with the pilot in the rear seat. So I've invented something

I have also added the loops for the rigging wires:



The next tricky bit is the windshields. I started with a big lump of balsa wood:



Then started cutting away bits that didn't look like a Nieuport:



And this is where I am now:



More to do before this becomes a mould for vacuum forming

Richard

[Bughunter]

Richard, I haven't found it nowhere in the thread, but I guess it's in 1/32 ( may be you can add this to title).
Because if it is 1/48 then you could use Small Stuff engines. They have a 14 cylinder Lambda-Lambda, Clerget and also Lambda and Omega engines.

Nice progress!

Scratch build is really called art, and the builder is the artist!

Cheers,
Frank

[RLWP]

Richard, I haven't found it nowhere in the thread, but I guess it's in 1/32 ( may be you can add this to title)
Cheers,
Frank

Done!

Richard

[Old Man]

Excellent progress, Sir!

Great to see this coming along so well.

[Borsos]

This is really making great progress. Especially the struts look spectacular!
 Don't forget to sand the molds for vacuforming a little smaller then the desired part because of the thickness of the plastic material. And I think vacuforming would work even better if you'd drill a hole into the wood where the cockpit openings are. The plastic will have to be removed there anyway.
Just my ideas from my vacuforming experiences.
Borsos

[RLWP]

Well, I've been messing about with this damn lump of balsa long enough. I've sawn it, filed it, sanded it, painted it with Tippex, stuck lumps to it, smeared it with filler and sanded and sanded and sanded.

So I sawed it in half:



and vacuum formed two windshields:





The front one hasn't come out well, the pilot's one is OK

There is a lovely Nieuport IV-G in the Flygvapen museum in Sweden. I emailed them and Torsten Nilsson, Director of museum collections unit took some photos for me. I'm very grateful that he has done this for me. Judging by some of the photos I suspect he quite enjoyed doing it

This is the windshield on the IV-G:



I think it shows a double skin to the windshield, the outside being flared and the inside a flat curve. So that's what i have done





The flat bit at the rear will get removed, it was convenient to stop the windshield spreading while I fitted the inner skin

Richard