Roden 1/32 Nieuport 27

[macsporran]

Onto the lower wings.
Of course now I find the locating pins for the outer V struts don't line up, so some corrective surgery , drilling and installation of new pins and hesitant checking for symmetry.
Hurrah, it all looks AOK, shipshape and bristol fashion!
S

[macsporran]

... and again...
(note mono threads taped back out of way while wings initially attached.)
S

[macsporran]

Now mono threads are tensioned with clothes pegs and CA applied to add strength and to seal .3mm holes drilled all the way through wings. This later sliced flush and touched up to be invisible, but add much strength - just like the real thing, as Airfix used to say!
S

[macsporran]

Ha. she's starting to look like a Nieuport now!
S
(after almost chucking it at a wall this morning, I'm actually very pleased with how this is progressing - the Nie27 is a very pretty aeroplane and I love this colour scheme with French camo set off against the vivid RFC roundels.)

[macsporran]

Sorry about the camera phone pics but this is a close up of an upper roundel to try to show how little evidence of the through-wing mono thread shows after slicing flush with a razor blade. There is a millimetric spot to be touched up with paint but completely flush surface.
I've used this method of rigging for decades and find it immensely strong - especially useful if you have big heavy resin wings. Also I add shaped blobs of acrylic medium or thick paint to represent turnbuckles which IMHO are scale appropriate.

I'll try to get some high definition pics once it's complete to show details more clearly.
Sandy

[RAGIII]

Looks Terrific! Just a question here. Did you modify the lower wing roots at all? If not I see No Sign of strut misalignment thus this was perhaps a mistake on My build of the 24bis!!
RAGIII

PS: I am one of the "Few" that agree about the Turnbuckles 

[macsporran]

Thanks Rick. At prep stage I cut off lower wing pins and drilled holes for longer pins made of plastic rod so I had a more secure joint, but the way the geometry of the wings is designed is a bit out of kilter.
I've always supported Roden and I think the Albatros is a terrific kit, in many ways preferable to the Wingnuts one, but you said the Nieuports were designed by another company, which really shows. Still I'd rather have a Roden N27 than none!
S

[Alexis]

Hey Sandy ,

She is gorgeous with the wing in place , really impressed with your nice clean work .


Alexis

[Early Bird Fan]

just catching up a bit with this one, glad you didn't give up with it as it's looking terrific and it's not a true roden kit without a bit of swearing here and there 

[kensar]

Nice and clean work, Sandy.  This plane is a bit unusual in that the camo pattern wraps around to the underside of the fuselage.

[macsporran]

Thanks guys.
Touch up paints ready at hand. You can tell I mix makes rather a lot!
See the hotel shampoo bottles I use to mix, thin and store airbrush shades during a build. Also my preferred acrylic varnish.
S

[RichieW]

This is looking beautiful Sandy, your home brewed paint mixes look superb. I have a CSM Nieuport in the stash that keeps calling out to me. This thread is pushing it further up the queue!

Richie

[macsporran]

Thanks Richie

... et maintenant La Nieuport a des jambes et un pied arrière ...

S

[rhallinger]

Very nice Sandy!  This Noop looks terrific.  I really like this scheme.  Keep going!

Best regards,

Bob

[Alexis]

Okay , I don't understand French at all so have no idea what you just said , but I will say ...don't forget to paint the lewis gun !

Really enjoy this Sandy 


Alexis