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George Papanikolaou brings out the deeper look of Eduard's Nieuport 11 in Weekend ed. Although the absence of a profipack's goodies, you will see that you can build a very good Bi-plane by the same way! 1/48 Eduard Nieuport Ni-11
The Nieuport 11 "Bebe" (or "Baby" - officially as the Nieuport 11 C1) was in some regards the first "true" Allied fighter of the First World War. Developed from the Bebe racer competition monoplane aircraft, the militarized version eventually became the Nieuport 11 and carried with it the excellent performance and maneuverability inherent in a racing platform. The French Nieuport series as a whole would end up becoming one of the best fighter lines of World War 1 and eventually became known collectively with other Nieuport products by the name of “Nieuport Fighting Scouts”.
So successful was the Nieuport 11 design that the Germans made no qualms about copying the design, embodied in the Siemens-Schuckert D-series (the final D.IV development of this series proving to be the best fighter of the war in some eyes), as well as 646 license-production copies coming out of Italy under the designation of Nieuport 1100. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
We are starting with the construction of the kit and begin from the cockpit. The wooden parts of the cockpit where painted with H-27 TAN from Gunze followed with a layer of burnt oil Sienna. The cockpit is assembled and painted without any problems. Next step is to cement the fuselage and lower wing. The upside was ok but the downside of the fuselage.....i had bad fitting..no problem with cyanoacrylate... These areas were sanded with various types of sanding paper.
Now the model is ready for painting but first of all....pre-shading, shadows and highlights. The painting job is done, according to Eduards painting instructions with Gunze Acrylics.
I hope you like it
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text and Photos by George Papanikolaou
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