[WWI] Special Hobby and Omega Noop 10s in1/48

[Mikko Saarela]

Ok, Karen, 

maybe you are right. Maybe the Special Hobby kit is not light years ahead of the Omega kits. But it still thousends of miles ahead and I'll still recomment it anytime! I've seen both of the kits! ;-)

The shape of the fuselage is really the only thing that is bothering me in the Special Hobby kit. Should the fuselage cross section taper downwards like it does in the Ian Stair drawings in WS Datafile 68? Or should the fuselage cross section be more or less rectangular, like it is in the Special Hobby. In pereiod photos the fuselage sides of Noop 10s seem to be srictly upright, but the se things are hard to see. The fuselage might be slictly wider on the top side... But why should it be like that? All the other early Nieuports seem to have simple rectangular fuselages

Does any of you listees know the definite truth about the Nieuport 10 fuselage shape? :-)

Mikko
 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Karen Rychlewski 
  To: World War I Modeling Mailing List 
  Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:17 PM
  Subject: Re: [WWI] Special Hobby and Omega Noop 10s in1/48




  On Aug 7, 2009, at 4:44 AM, Mikko Saarela wrote:


    I came back from lurking mode just to say this:

    Omega resin Nieuport 10: forget it, forget it, forget it! There's no 3 versions, only one version - the early one with observer sitting on the front seat - with different decals. Or at least my "Finnish version" had the early version parts in the box:

    http://www.kolumbus.fi/saarela.mikko/Nieuports.html

    The kit was almost hilariously crappy. One of the lower wings  - for example - had the wing ribs in 90 degree angle to the wing spar, on the other lower wing they go parallel with the fuselage (which is right)!! ...


  Well, Mikko, sounds like you got one that slipped past Czech quality control    :-)
  Your model of it looks really good despite the struggles; you made a silk purse out of tthat sow's ear.


  I have the Omega single-seater and the "Ni.X B", the early version two-seater, and they're both very buildable, IMHO. No silly mistakes such as you identify. The major parts accord well with the Datafile GA: not perfect, but close enough that a little sanding fixes things. The two fuselages (each is one piece with the top parts separate) are different to allow for the early version engine mounting, different forward deckings, and different turtledecks; the two-seater upper wing has the circular hole the observer was supposed to pop up in to man the machine gun. The wing ribs are a non-issue since I've sanded them all off to thin the trailing edges and will replace them with strips of clear decal. Each kit has an appropriate small, but nice, PE fret, and I'll be adding bits from the Eduard Nieuport 17 PE set. Yes, I'll replace the engine and struts and such, but that's more or less standard with resin kits anyway. The decals are for Italian and Russian planes and they seem accurate—haven't tried them yet so can't comment on their useability. I'm doing Alexander Kozakov's machine, which appears to be a modified early two-seater with a Maxim gun aimed upwards to clear the prop; at least I think it's a two-seater because the upper wing seems to have a sealed-up circular gunner's opening. If anyone has more information about this plane, I would appreciate receiving it.


  I'm sorry to hear of your problems with the other two-seater kit, but I wouldn't damn the other two kits on that basis. An experienced modeler should be able to deal with them as long as the Finnish version is avoided    :-)
  The prices for the Omega kits and the Special Hobby kit (which I haven't seen) seem to be in the same range, so I'd say the choice would be up to the modeler based on availability and love/hate of resin.


  Karen
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