I am building a Flair 1/6 Nieuport 17. It cost me €90, approx $90 including tank, 'bits' and a nice but too shiny aluminium cowl. Its not fully scale, but it will do me for my first scale job. Work is currently on hold due to an emergency repair job...you know how it is.

Anyway, I got my copy of Albatros Productions Nieuport Fighters Vol 1. Good stuff, highly recommeded. here are a few nice colour profiles but I will probably extrapolate from the photo of 'C' flight, 29 squadron RFC at the top of page 29 (photo 58). This appears to show a flight of silver nieuport 17s with the upper surfaces camoflaged over (see the lower wing of 5C). I'm guessing the fuse stripe and the ID number are red. It will be aircraft 5C cos I love that font. The only bummer is that it is Lewis gun armed. I'm a bit worried about flipping it over on landing and breaking the gun.

With regards to the Le Prieur rocket mountings, it is now clear that the interplane struts were bound with cloth bands on all Neiuports and that the rocket mountings were smaller metal fittings, the precise shape of which I am still researching.