Nieuport 24 'ISIS' 

"Billy Bones"

The Nieuport 17 airframe was modified around the 120 hp LeRhone rotary engine by adding stringers to the fuselage side to give it a more streamlined silhouette, it kept the type 17 tail unit profile but the upper wing ailerons were reduced in area.  The sesquiplane layout had proved itself in the Nieuport 11,16,17,21 &23  (80 hp,120 & 130 hp motors) The first type 24 bis appeared at the front in about May 1917 and it became a stopgap in the French fighter Escadrilles serving well into late 1918.  First examples of the 24 bis were armed with an over the wing unsynchronized Lewis gun and/or a single Vickers.  Final designs had single a Vickers guns.  Sold to Russia, Italy and to British air services.

This is the Eduard #8024 kit with the Lewis gun & pylon deleted from assembly.  I replaced the aileron actuation rods A19-20 with metal items as well.  The fuselage is a resin item from “HI-TECH” of France. The rigging is monofilament.  The national markings are scratchbuilt  The personal marking of “Diana “ were manufactured on a computer by Rob Johnson of “Chandelle”.   Some items from Tom’s Modelworks  brass 1/48 French detail set were used both on the cockpit interior and fuselage exterior.