Special Hobby 1/32 Nieuport 11 Bebe - French Aces

[pepperman42]

The project overall looks great and how do you predict what the decals will do from one area to the next?!! Did you overspray the N16 roundels under the top wing as well? Is there a vicious decalomaniac that taunts us with SH and Roden sheets? Mask and paint? It looks great and you're so close.

Steve

[RAGIII]

Nice looking pilot! It should set the aircraft off nicely.

RAGIII

[macsporran]

Thank you for all the encouragement, mes amis. Finally got this one across the line. Must say I lacked a bit of enthusiasm by the latter stages and just wanted to see it finished. I could spend a bit more time on certain aspects ...  but there's a pile of unstarted WNWs staring at me and I could do with a Wingnuts-type 'fix' after my excursions chez Nieuport!
Sandy

[kensar]

Nice work on a clean build, Sandy.  The figure came out well too.

[KiwiZac]

Bravo, Sandy, your Noop looks tres magnifique!

[Dave W]

Excellent work Sandy! You sure brought that Special Hobby Nieuport to life.

I'll send a build link to Special Hobby to encourage them to do more WW1 subjects.

cheers

Dave Wilson
Gold Coast
Australia

[Bughunter]

Sandy, what kind of decal setter you used on this Special Hobby decals?

As I mentioned at the beginning of this thread I had no problems with the decals, but I normally used Micro Set and Sol.
Today I came across another build with a result which looks a bit like yours!
Very interesting is the difference on this picture: same model, same decals, only different solution used: upper one with micro sol, the lower on with solvaset.


From this build, see explanation below the picture:
https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=64707&p=albums&album=79485#23

This can give us a warning about used decal solutions!

Cheers,
Frank

[macsporran]

Interesting link, Frank, thanks, yes it looks similar.

I used micro sol/set on the underside of the upper wing and had exactly that crinkly look so I decided not to use solvents on topside. There I put decals directly on varnished surface and used gentle heat from hair dryer and they settled down beautifully and were left overnight. Next day when I sprayed on the Galeria varnish they started to wrinkle up.
I can only assume I had decals from a poor batch.
😕
S