Here we have come to the final step! Let's make front wheels and a tail support. Observing carefully front wheels of the actual Nieuport 28, the shafts of front wheels are structured as a truss. In this model, this truss is made by several…

The propeller spinner and the body of engine were made with a bar made of balsa wood which diameter is 10mm. To make a spinner, firstly, the bar is sharpened as approximate shape with a pencil sharpener. Then, shaping it with sandpaper. Th…

Installing the horizontal stabilizers.About an actual Nieuport 28, its horizontal stabilizers are supported by diagonal bracing bars. In this modeling, I made diagonal bracing materials, whose width are 3mm, to support the horizontal stabi…

Before assembling the upper main wings, let's make the posts for upper parts. There was a cut-off piece left when I made Mitsubishi Ki-46 'Dinah,' before. I use this piece, because its color looks like wood, which could be thought to be th…

Starting to assemble parts!First, assembling the central main body. In this case, using 5 cm size square wood of cypress, I assembled the body for parts to be perpendicular to each other. For this assembly, Konishi's "Ultra Versatile", whi…

Make a sticker to decorate the aircraft.Stickers are made with a sheet of ordinary paper painted with acrylic paint. After painting them, cut out to fit the shape of parts. These stickers could be better to be inked as much as possible. At…

As the parts dry, they may warp like this picture. But don't touch them! Turn them over and let them be.Once these parts dry completely, they should return to flat surface by themselves.Well, it's completely dry. Molding each part.When mol…

Painting parts cut out. In this case, I decided it’s color blue, inspired by the 213th Squadron of the US Army. See: WINGS PALETTE http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww1/f/760/3/0/10 Using water-based acrylic paint TAMIYA X-4, and dilute it with water to…

Cutting out the transcribed shape from a styrene sheet. Previously, I used a designer knife as a tool to cut. However, designer knives tend to be nicked. Today, I use an ordinary utility knive. The main wings of Nieuport 28 has almost no d…

Started to manufacture in 1918, Nieuport 28 was a small but easily usable fighter. This plane was made in France, and mainly used in USA as the first fighter of US Army in WW1. The shape of its body looks quite smart, so I think it should …

It is my hobby to make airplane models with a sheet of styrene. Somebody could think that a scale model should be a plastic model, not a styrene sheet model. However, once we make a plastic model, our much concentration should be needed. S…