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Kit: Eduard (1:72)
Couple of pics of the Eduard 1/72nd Nieuport 17 in progress. Seat back is from Tom's Modelworks etched set; belts are from Eduard pre-painted French WWI set; a few scratchbuilt bits.
Rigging is stretched sprue, prop carved from wood, paint is Polly S "Metalline" Aluminum with the cowling & forward rudder stripe an Xtracolour Roundel Blue/USN Blue mix. Decals are from Americal/Gryphon. I managed to piece together the tail codes from their No. 1 Sqn. sheet but I had to hand paint the red surrounds as AG printed these the same size as the black numbers which kind of defeats the purpose!
Kit: Roden (1:72)
Update from Andy: Finally finished that 1/72nd scale SE5a I started eons ago - pics attached.
Prop is carved from wood with a p/e boss from Extratech, rigging is stretched sprue. Pulley inspection panels were cut out, the bottoms (or top in the case of the top wing) were covered with .005" sheet and the clear covering is decal film. The pulleys are punched from .015" sheet. This is a big improvement on the horrible black & white decals Roden supply for these panels!
Markings are from Americal Gryphon's No. 1 Sqn. sheet which was very disappointing. All the fuselage codes & serial numbers were printed too large so I picked aircraft "Y" which was the easiest to trim to size, though there wasn't much I could do about the serial number. The white outlines on the roundels were out of register so I substituted some from Pegasus, though these were not without their problems either being very brittle and somewhat translucent. I overlaid the white centres with some white backing circles from Fantasy Printshop which mostly solved the translucency problem.
Couple of in-progress pics of my Roden 1/72nd SE5a. Used part of an Eduard p/e set intended for the old Revell kit which works fine in Roden's kit.