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Offline WD

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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2021, 12:50:08 AM »
Paul,
      I've found Tamiya extra thin to be very watery IMHO.  Not sure if that's the Tamiya you are using. Great progress BTW.

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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2021, 05:38:32 PM »
Thanks both :)

Paul,
      I've found Tamiya extra thin to be very watery IMHO.  Not sure if that's the Tamiya you are using. Great progress BTW.

WD

Bottle of Tamiya I've got isn't marked up as extra thin WD so I'll have a poke about at a show that's coming up locally and see what I can find
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Paul


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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2021, 05:56:14 PM »
Plenty of progress this week and it's now starting to come together. Coat of silver on everything and then tried a coat of clear which didn't seem to work very well so removed it and used some Rowney gloss varnish before adding the decals (I didn't fancy the well known 'bob' version which was my iunitial intention, but the smaller roundels looked slightly out of register) :-\





Slight problem with the rudder decals which was entirely my fault. First one went okay and after drying I couldn't get the second one to line up correctly and eventually tore it  :-[
No problem - I'll just paint the fin flashes. I removed the other side easily and thought that didn't damage the paint so I gingerly tried taking off the small underwing roundels which were a bit tricker, but again no damage so with a volt face I decided to change the colour scheme and remove all the decals which is where the problem started . . . . In the end I had to rub down the top wing and fuz surfaces and will need to start again  :'( :'(

Still good practice I suppose  ;D

Leaving the model aside (I'll spare you the unfortunate damaged shots) I pressed on with the woodwork which I'm pretty happy with. Hopefully I'll get the wing and fuz re-painted over the weekend and be able to sort out the decals early next week
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Paul


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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2021, 06:41:22 PM »
very neat!

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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2021, 02:32:38 AM »
Very Nice! Your Nieuport looks great all painted and with markings applied!
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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2021, 10:20:22 PM »
Beautiful, who can resist a silver Nieuport? Cracking work on this elegant little fighter, the struts look super neat, they must be tiny!

Richie

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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #21 on: October 13, 2021, 12:52:38 AM »
Lovely little Nyoop!
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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #22 on: October 13, 2021, 07:02:21 AM »
Cheers guys.

Finished the paint redo and new decals now so its onwards and upwards. Not had much time today (which is probably just as well since I was fiddling about fitting the two wings together  :-X Hopefully when I check in the morning all will be well and I can add the extra details and take a look at the rigging . . . .

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Paul
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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #23 on: October 13, 2021, 04:03:46 PM »
i'd say your toe is well and truly dipped, you're doing a cracking job on the Nieuport

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Re: Dipping my toe in the water with a Nieuport
« Reply #24 on: October 13, 2021, 04:09:39 PM »
Beautiful work, really nice pait job on the wood parts.
Bye,
Manni
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