Author Topic: Nieuport 16 N.1208 Paul Pavelka N.124 (Read 15065 times)

xan · « **Reply #45 on:** February 22, 2015, 05:50:52 PM »

Hi daves! this Ni-16 goes on in a good way!
your camera have big variation from a picture to an another

for the light brown , you use mister kit paint to?

Xan

RAGIII · « **Reply #46 on:** February 23, 2015, 12:52:02 AM »

Your Nieuport is looking TERRIFIC! Very inspiring scheme! This aircraft is one of the options in the 1/32nd Special Hobby kit. Very tempting

RAGIII

radio · « **Reply #47 on:** February 23, 2015, 01:09:56 AM »

Very great work and paint Dave.
Martin

WarrenD · « **Reply #48 on:** February 23, 2015, 01:32:35 AM »

I think you've done a great job on this so far Dave, this a/c is certainly not the easiest to reproduce in terms of paint scheme, etc. I also think it's great that you've reproduced the serials for the wings, tailplane, etc. Many manufacturers forget to do those. Not sure if that's on purpose or not, but it's one of those missing elements from most Nieuport builds as a result.

Warren

coyotemagic · « **Reply #49 on:** February 23, 2015, 05:01:31 AM »

Outstanding work, as usual, Dave! This is going to be a real eye-catcher.
Cheers,
Bud

davecww1 · « **Reply #50 on:** February 23, 2015, 07:47:00 AM »

Hi Xan,
The Misterkit paints I used were the Light blue on the bottom and the gray green for the light green. For the browns, I used Model Master enamels, the lighter one is Leather, which gives the red-brown color, and the darker brown on the wings is French chestnut brown. For the fuselage side I mixed this with black to get a darker brown for the cowhide pattern. The lighting may be an issue as I am not using a light source other than my desktop light for the in progress workbench shots. The one photo where the camera flash went off makes the camouflage colors look way light but I posted that one to show off a little of the interior detail.

Alexis · « **Reply #51 on:** February 23, 2015, 10:34:25 AM »

Man that camo looks fantastic !

Terri

davecww1 · « **Reply #52 on:** October 12, 2015, 09:04:05 AM »

After taking the summer off to work on other things like my 1/1 scale car I am back to work on the Nieuport 16. First thing that I did was to scratchbuild the details on the tailskid, and carve a notch in the kit tailskid where a piece of steel wire will go to represent the tailskid. This allows me to make resin copies with the wire in the center of the mold so it comes out with a resin encased rod that will support the weight of the aircraft without breaking. So I will be able to have these resin tailskids for the remaining Nieuport 11 and 16s in my collection. I will have to study and see if the Nieuport 17 and 21 skid are identical.

davecww1 · « **Reply #53 on:** October 12, 2015, 09:13:18 AM »

I also installed the upper wing and began rigging. I tried using some Modelkasten .06 flexible rigging which looks good but I think it is too black, I will have to try to get a metallic color on it somehow. I used Bob's buckles threaded through 1.5mm tubing for the buckles attached to the fuselage and lower wing. I had trouble getting the superglue to stick to the Modelkasten wire but guess it looks OK.

davecww1 · « **Reply #54 on:** October 12, 2015, 09:19:15 AM »

I also attached the rudder with a steel pin and added Eduard's photoetched control horns to the stabilizers. I did not want to put any tension on these brass control horns and the control lines need to be tight, so I used a different material, I used the ceramic "Wonder wire" for these. I had to use 2 pieces for the upper, cutting it where it went through the hole in the stabilizer and adding a short piece from there to the control horn. The lower wire is one piece cut to the exact size and attached with superglue.

lcarroll · « **Reply #55 on:** October 12, 2015, 09:20:36 AM »

Dave,
I use Mr Metal Colour #213 "Stainless" on the Modelkasten thread and it works very well. Just keep it thin and don't go back over it or it will "clump". If you use one pass it looks really great.
Cheers,
Lance

davecww1 · « **Reply #56 on:** October 12, 2015, 09:28:23 AM »

In the last photo you can get a good view of the resin and wire tailskid after installation. Looks much better than the kit part.

Here is the Lewis gun as used by Paul Pavelka. I found a detailed photo of his gun in the Over the Front issue listed previously. For this gun I needed one with the jacketed barrell & gas tube, so I ordered the Gaspatch Darne Lewis gun. I drilled a hole in the hand grip and squared it off to match the photo of a gun with the hand grip removed. Unfortunately these guns are very brittle and cracked into a few parts but I was able to glue them back together with super glue. I also added the extra hand grip as seen in the photos, and the bowden cable to the trigger fro some fine silver wire. The mount was the kit piece with the holes drilled out and a razor saw was run down the center to make it look like two rods at the top. I painted it a dark gray, gave it a black wash and drybrushed it with powdered graphite to look like gunmetal. then I painted the handles wood and the mount Intermediate blue.

davecww1 · « **Reply #57 on:** October 12, 2015, 09:29:46 AM »

Thanks lance, I may try that although I don't want to slop any on the painted wings $:-\$

RAGIII · « **Reply #58 on:** October 12, 2015, 01:01:09 PM »

Terrific work on the tail control wires and MG!
RAGIII

Des · « **Reply #59 on:** October 12, 2015, 01:44:36 PM »

You are doing a fantastic job so far Dave, the machine gun looks great.

Des.