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On covering, have you considered covering one side? Richard

Fancy a bit of conversion work? http://www.llantransfest.co.uk/wynns_pacific.html Richard

You lucky, lucky, lucky b....... Lots of pictures please Richard

For the radiator screen, you could saw across the intake where the grille goes, fit it and fill in the saw cut No bloody idea on the skinning Richard

There is some very clever injection moulding in those wings Richard

Oh, stop it now. You've managed to find an obscure injection moulded kit and are trying to pass this off as a scratch build.... Lovely work, Peter, and some great ideas here Richard

200 units is a big ask for crowdfunding I think I'd find another kit to build Richard

Perhaps less so if you can gather a group of people together to fund it - maybe through an internet forum? Richard

Yes - absolutely! I was surprised to find such a thing in the first place Richard

One here, if you want to wait: https://www.model-space.com/gb/build-the-douglas-dc3.html Richard

It doesn't seem to tarnish as easily as brass too, and is a little stronger so doesn't distort so much. I'd say that was a good plan Richard

Try here: http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=20364 Richard

And... you could enter it into Lego competitions too! Richard

I just remembered, the wing structure is in the Rozendaal drawings in the Nieuport 17 Datafile 20, page29. I blew it up to twice the printed size, you can actually read the dimensions then if you are mad enough Richard

I'll see what I can do It's a bit of overhead projector transparency, the printable sort. (wow, that dates me, who uses an OH projector these days!). Thanks for the appreciations, guys. Richard

Hi Tom, 1/. From the Nieuport Fighters Datafile volume 1. N1177 is on page 27, image 52 2/. It's mostly invisible thread fixed to Bob's Buckles parts. The control cables to the empennage are nickle silver wire and really should be dulled down. 3/. Partly from the datafile, and the 'Soleil' from his later SPAD VII here: http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/escadrille076.htm Does that help? Richard

Thank you. It didn't look quite so clean when I chopped the middle out of the top wing. I breathed a sigh of relief when I had it properly mounted Richard

I've just finished this. It's an Academy Nieuport 17 as flown by Cne Emile Paumier of Escadrille 76 It's mostly straight Academy, with Toms Modelworks etch parts and Gaspatch Darne Lewis and Vickers guns Richard

In a way, it was my kids that got me back into modelling. My son brought home a Bretonnian knight which I glued together and painted. Now I'm hooked again Richard

I've done a bit of Aurora in my time - never hurt me.... Richard Pass me that Academy kit would you, I need a fix

Where are those parts? Richard

There are too many pieces of 425/17 about. There was a bit of a cottage industry in making pieces of 'The Red Baron's Aeroplane' Richard

You are just like a drug peddlar. Get them young and they're hooked for life I started my addiction with Airfix Richard My kids (in their late twenties) are addicted to fantasy gaming figures

So, what is it then? It's got a Sopwith Camel hump and access panel. The tail looks Sopwith too There must be a very complicated cam arrangement for that six cylinder engine! Richard

And it's an F1 prototype, not a DR.1 It's written on the side of the aeroplane Richard