[WWI] Belgian Nieuport 23 interior colors?

[Rusty Scott]

Very neat website...............


Rusty
Lancaster, NH 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Diego Fernetti 
  To: World War I Modeling Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:36 AM
  Subject: Re: [WWI] Belgian Nieuport 23 interior colors?


  Dave!
  perhaps Mike Fletcher can answer more accurately than me, but it seems curious that the restoration in Belgium would have painted something that was originally varnished... I'm sure that there must be a reason behind this change. Perhaps some of out Belgian friends can recall why this change has happened. Something very particular to that airframe was the colour of the Vickers guns, which are usually 100% black.
  Here's a page where some Swiss enthusiasts are making a small run of replica Nieuports
  http://www.nieuport.ch/index.htm
  If you look in the menu, there's a photo gallery where some components and plans are shown. They have their seats made of light colored wood and while some metallic parts appear japanned or painted, some are left unpainted.
  I guess it's more or less your call how you paint the components. Don't forget that an Italian Macchi-Nieuport survivor has its interior painted overall blue!
  HTH
  D.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Dave Calhoun 
    To: World War 1 modelers 
    Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:46 PM
    Subject: [WWI] Belgian Nieuport 23 interior colors?


    Just wondering after looking at photos of the Belgian Nieuport restoration it shows that all the metal parts in the interior are painted a light gray color, and the wooden seat is painted black.  Photos of this same aircraft appear in the book Nieuport fighters vol. 1 - the Datafile special.  In this book the metal parts appear to be painted black and the seat is natural wood.  anyone know what the correct color from the Nieuport factory in 1917 would be?  I like the wooden seat/black control stick and rudder bar better but not sure what is the most accurate colors, anyone than has any idea please let me know!  
    Thanks
    Dave Calhoun (who has done several Nieuports already with wooden seat and black stick following these photos but they were French not Belgian ones) 
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