Nieuport 11 1/33rd Scale from Marek's Models (A repaint by Sergey Vlasenko)

[NinetythirdLiberator]

Back in the saddle after a long-term Me-410 paper model project (and some others!).  This will be a pretty, French Nieuport and should go together well.  Stay tuned!

Dan

[NigelR]

Nice! Just in time to compete with the CSM Nieuport 11s which should be arriving soon......

[Gene K]

Back in the saddle after a long-term Me-410 paper model project ... .

Great to see you back into a WWI project!

Gene K

[Radarman]

It's great to see you're back at it, Dan. As I always say, "You can never have too many Nieuports".

                                                                                                             Happy Modeling from Kevin in Port Orchard

[NinetythirdLiberator]

Thanks everybody!  This should be a relaxing build.  I only just started getting the cockpit area together.  I only punched holes in the seat and formers are glued to 1/32nd balsa as is my usual practice.  Other than that, it's just as designed.  Looks cool so far.  Some additions to it soon!

Dan

[Martyn]

Nice work so far! Method of punching holes in the chair backrest you showed in the video is definitely the way to go - I tried drilling 1 mm holes and it came out not as clean.

[NinetythirdLiberator]

Hi Martyn,

They are tough to do and this tool is a luxury to use.  You could try drilling and then poking into the hole a few times with a sharpened pencil.  That at least helps clean up the edges a bit.  Still leaves ragged areas on the back side, though.  Not really an easy way to do this.

Thanks for looking and at the videos too.  Please ask more questions as we go!

Dan

[NinetythirdLiberator]

A bit more tonight.  Working through the seat attachment, seat belts with new metal clasps and the tubular steel cage with rigging since the model has these being flat and pasted to the interior side wall.  Looks better being 3-D.

One question I have is were those pieces tubular steel and is a bluish color accurate?  Not being a French WWI machine expert, I'll defer to you. 

Looking squarely at you, Kevin! 

This one is coming along well.  Needs some more little details like rudder bar, rigging, aileron tubes, joy stick etc. but looking good.

More soon...Dan

[NigelR]

Nice start here. Yes, current thinking is that interior tubing was a "french blue", so bluish grey. However, the framework was wood and it looks like you have some steel framework where there should be wood. It's hard to tell from the photos though.

[NinetythirdLiberator]

Thanks, Nigel.  I will repaint parts of it!  I'll make sure my aileron tubing is tubing and not wood too!

Cheers,
Dan

[NinetythirdLiberator]

The Nieuport interior continues apace. I got the aileron tubes added, the joy stick and rudder pedals along with control lines. I still need to add the throttle quadrant on the left side and I think it'll be ready to move on. Thanks to Nigel, there shouldn't be any tubular steel in the fuselage except for the one vertical part I kept the blue/grey color. I repainted the other to look more like wood. It'll pass once all enclosed. Going well!

Cheers,
Dan

[NinetythirdLiberator]

Got the fuselage together but it still needs some more cockpit opening details etc.  Coming together very well so far.

It sure is a pretty machine.

Dan

[NigelR]

Looking good, I'm sure everyone will notice the correction to the fuselage framework now the fuselage is all closed up..... At least we know it's there

[KiwiZac]

Great work so far Dan! I'm feeling the urge to finally get back to that Avro...

[NinetythirdLiberator]

It's all your fault, Nigel!  I'm glad I changed it.  As you say...we know it's there. 

Where is that Avro, Zac?  Just fooling.  I do think you'll like it when you get to it.

Here is a quick look at the tails on the Nieuport.  I'll work on the control cables, struts and control horns tonight and maybe the tail skid do it won't hurt the tails.  I may also redo the rudder.  Looks like a thick frying pan back there! 

More soon...Dan