Dear Jon Farmer:

The PIPE here yet AGAIN...and since it's a Nieuport you're interested in, one place to start for DETAILS might be at...

http://mars.ark.com/~mdf/nieuport.html

...as THAT's the site known as "The Nieuport Page!"

There's ALL sorts of GOOD stuff there for documenting your project...if you're going to do a real Dix-Sept (the Nieuport 17) version, there are for-real ROZENDAAL done "museum quality" drawings there for THAT version, at http://mars.ark.com/~mdf/N_17d.html , that will have you going NUTZ with happiness-just about EVERY detail is there!

"2 Piece" WAS right about the scale dummy machine guns from Williams Brothers...THEIR website is at http://www.williamsbrosinc.com/ ...and if it's a 17 cm scale (1/6th size) Nieuport you're doing, their 4-3/8ths inch (11.1 cm) diameter "Vintage Style" RC plane wheels, their part number 13200, are also available!

For a PILOT figure, though, you can do MUCH better than Williams Brothers! Just check out DGA Designs, at http://www.dgadesigns.com/pages/779902/index.htm ...and check out their pilot "busts" and even FULL BODY pilot figure kits, at that site...and even a full body pilot kit in 17 cm scale would weigh just under 60 grams all assembled!

For the Le Prieur rockets, I found two notable links at http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/leprieur.htm , and at http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/le_prieur.html (THIS one has photos of a whole BUNCH of different Allied aircraft with them mounted on there)! Be advised that it was the Nieuport ONZE (the Type 11, also called the Bébé) that USUALLY used thesr rockets!

And I'd be "remiss" in NOT mentioning ALL the Nieuport documentation available from LEO OPDYCKE at WW I AERO...here goes...

"Nieuport-Macchi Tipo 11000 (Italian-built N.11)
*ISTRUZIONE E NORME (maintenance and rigging manual). 35pp text and dwgs, $5 fr WW1 AERO.
*NIEUPORT-MACCHI 11 & 17. Book by Longoni, 1976, 50pp. $8.50 fr WW1 AERO.
*23 11 x 17" sheets fr Aermacchi factory originals, showing main and some smaller components w/structurat detail. $25 fr WW1 AERO.

Nieuport-Macchi Tipo 17000 (Italian-built N. 17)
* 19 sheets as above (some identical to some of the N. 11). $25 fr WW1 AERO.

Nieuport-Macchi Tipo 10000 (Italian-built N. 10/12)
*25 sheets as above (some overlap, as noted above) $25 fr WW1 AERO

Nieuport I I Bebe, 1915
* 1plate 18x24"; 1/20 scale. Kelley dw, $ 10 fr WW1 AERO.
*NOTICE DE REGLAGE (rigging manual). 12pp, $5 fr WW1 AERO.

Nieuport 11,15
*2 big sheets (xeroxed in sections); dimensioned dwgs in German. $15 fr WW1 AERO.

Nieuports 11/17/27
* from WW1 AERO #93: comparative study of fuselages. $12 fr WW1 AERO.

Nieuport II
*TARIF DES PIECES DETACHEES (parts list, photos, dwgs, prices of spare parts). 16 pp, $7.50 fr WW1 AERO.

Nieuport 15
*1 plate 18 x 24", 1/20 scale. Kelley dwg, $10 ft WW1 AERO.

Nieuport 17
*for Wait Redfem's Warner-powered repro: full set of dwgs $100. Velda Redfem.
*The only 3 Rozendaal dwgs (build from them). Small $7; large (23x30"), $15 fr WW1 AERO. This set is the one that's also downloadable from "The Nieuport Page" link that I've previously mentioned in this thread!!!

MORE Nieuport 17...
*30-page translation of Rozendaal description of captured a/c. $10 fr WW1 AERO.
*4 sheets 29x40" fr Bergen Hardesty originals, $20 WW1 AERO.
*TARIF DE PIECES DETACHEES (parts list with detailed photos), 19pp.. $7.50 fr WW1 AERO.

Nieuport 23, 24, 24bis, 27
*NOTICE DE REGLAGE (rigging manual). 12pp, $5 WW1 AERO.

Nieuport 24
*Parts manual, including sketches of fittings, with cowl and wing m/g mounting. 12pp, $7 fr WW1 AERO.

Nieuport 24, 24bis
*Dwgs for Warner-powered repro; sarne as for N. 1 7 above. From Mrs W Redfern.

Nieuport 24,27
*4 sheets 29x48" fr Bergen Hardesty originals. $20 WW1 AERO.

Nieuport 27
*Complete set (about 300 dwgs on 8.5 x 11" sheets) fr French-copied originals, $100 + postage (+ Rozendaal N. 17 article, free if requested at the same time)- fr WW1 AERO.
*25 sheets- $37.50 fr Gordon Codding.
*6 big sheets, $55 + $4 pp USA, $13 pp overseas, fr Jim Kiger.

WHEW...now you'd HAVE to agree all this is a LOT of info for you to digest...and to contact Leo YOURSELF, just head for http://www.ww1aeroplanesinc.org/ ...his "regular" mailing address and TELEPHONE NUMBER are at the top of that very page!

Hope these links are helpful to you!

Yours Sincerely,

The PIPE!