There's always time to start another stringbag. This time I'm doing a surprisingly advanced aircraft for 1915, the Nieuport 10.
The Nieuport 10 was built for the Gordon Bennett Air Race of 1914. Since of course that didn't happen, the aircraft was snapped up by the French Army, who used it as a reconnaissance/scout aircraft in a two seat configuration. Later, as the need to fighters became evident, the -10 was converted to single seat, either at the front, or in the factory. There were several different variants of the single seat fighter. Most were armed with a single Lewis gun fitted above the centre section of the upper wing, but again the mountings could vary from aircraft to aircraft. Not all that long ago, Special Hobby released a kit of this fairly rare aircraft.
I made a start by spraying about some Tamiya Wooden Deck Tan to do the base coat of the wooden structure.
There are some pretty ugly ejector pin towers inside the cockpit that will need to be chiselled out before I start painting the fabric.
