[Minairons] 1:144 Nieuport 52 fighter

[Lluis of Minairons]

3D printed models and figures are becoming increasingly widespread with every day, and these often have the advantage of requiring very little assembly – if any at all. This is not a passing fashion, but a consolidating trend.

However, not everyone has a 3D printer at home, or is willing to devote the effort required to their use and maintainance. Here’s why we at Minairons miniatures have taken the somewhat risky decision to boost some of our ranges by joining forces with some 3D creators through Patreon, rather than trying to compete the trend with conventional multi-part products.



Our first such product is this ubiquitous 1:144^th scale Nieuport 52 fighter, a re-scaled design by a creator known as Plane Printer, who's doing 20^th century aircraft models compatible with BRS (so pre-designed to 1:200^th scale).



Only time will tell if we got the diagnosis right, so as to even go deeper into the experience with new WWII and Interwar aircraft models – or if otherwise it was the mistake of my life! As an old Catalan saying says, «qui no arrisca, no pisca» (=who dares not, does not fish).

If willing to learn more, please visit us at https://minairons-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/1144-nieuport-52-ready-printed.html.

Best regards,

Lluís Vilalta
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[martin goddard]

Good luck with that  Lluis. I think it is the right direction.


martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

An interesting development, Lluis, and it will be interesting to see how this line takes off

Simon

[Lluis of Minairons]

Just some pictures on a section of 1:144^th scale Nieuport 52 fighters in SCW Nationalist livery, just added to my own collection:



More pictures and some explanation on my personal blog: https://soldadets.blogspot.com/2022/06/seccio-de-nieuport-delage-nid-52.html (catalan language almost exclusively, sorry for this).

Regards,
Lluís

[Colonel Kilgore]

Those are even better than the kit box art, Lluis - very nice.

Google translate helped me with your blog, but failed on the word "calcomanía" - so I've learned one useful word of Catalan (it may be the same in Spanish?) today!

Simon

[Lluis of Minairons]

"Calcomania" translates as "decal", or waterslide transfer.
The word for it in Spanish is quite similar, "calcomanía" - just an accent mark as only written difference.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Thanks Lluis!

Simon