Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin C3799 Capt. Irving
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30 15 May 2020, 21:31
René "Lord Bilbo" BartholemyPlease pat yourself on your shoulder for a job marvelously well done. Your work is a real inspiration as well as a certain frustration to us who are still so far from your standards... 🙂
16 May 2020, 20:06
René "Lord Bilbo" BartholemyHi Bughunter, could you tell us what's you opinion of CSM kits? Worth it? Compared to, say, Eduard Profi?
17 May 2020, 06:36
bughunterWhat a great feedback - Thx to all of you!
Bilbo, this was my first CSM kit, and it was the first injection molded kit of that company, so my experience is to small to judge all products of this company. But this is for sure a great kit, the parts fits well, very nice PE parts made from nickel silver 👍, clever engineering (e.g. see the PE fittings for riggng inside the fuselage). The wrong strut position - shit happens, could be corrected and may be they used a wrong reference drawing. Some small mistakes with PE number in manual, but those bugs we have often seen also in Eduard manuals - not a big deal. I can't say anything about the decals, because I build another marking, but they looking nice. I have two other kits in stash (F.K.8 and Caudron), and what I see inside the box is simply fantastic. Both kits have Cartograf printed decals (in my opinion the best available around the world), great PE parts (on F.K.8 there are two additional spare PE parts for a complicated cowling! - that is very modeler friendly) and a massive amount of great looking and sharp molded parts - so yes, that is comparable with a Profipack. I would go further and would say my Premium edition of the Dolphin with the resin engine and the fantastic metal exhauts are on Royal level! So it is nice to have another company to do such great 1:48 kits of those old struts. CSM is also doing 1:32 kits and what I heard are the Nieuport clearly on WNW level 👍
So my conclusion: if you like a type of an aircraft - go and buy the CSM kit, you will not be disappointed.
17 May 2020, 10:25
Lochsa RiverDear bugman....awesome work....great fun to see it unfold...you live in a miniature world that is amazing to visit!
One question about the resin RAF wire connectors you are clearly excited about. How did you attach them at the wings? Looking at them shows the clear point for the EZLine or a wire but the other end is a bit of a mystery. Did you glue them after sanding them down a bit to round them off? What did you glue them to? Is wire the best option when using them? It seems like it would be.
I'm at the rigging stage of my first WW kit ....a Sopwith Pup.... and its decision time about the rigging connectors...honestly, i'm not good enough to go beyond eyelets right now.
Thanks again and thank you for the great work!
17 May 2020, 17:54
bughunterThanks for the visit in my miniature world😉
The best thing is to drill a hole, glue the line in and slide the terminal to the end. I uploaded the manual to the Scalemates product page. This explains it clearly.
17 May 2020, 20:59
Lochsa Riverthanks for that...i checked it out.
so, it appears the resin pieces are essentially decorative, not adding any connection of their own, sort of like a tube "turnbuckle"...it just sits there.
17 May 2020, 22:01
bughunterToday I made some outdoor picture on the balcony. Was not easy to not have modern structures on the pictures. But I like the colors, I hope you will too.
29 May 2020, 10:22
Alec KOutdoor pics are super. It's so hard to replicate natural sunlight indoors - I have to try it sometimes.
29 May 2020, 11:34
René "Lord Bilbo" BartholemyThe only reason why my wife was able to say "no, it's a model!" was that I asked her about it... Talk about a leading question...
29 May 2020, 12:51
bughunterThank you all!
@Bernhard, of course we only have b/w photographs from that time. But do you agree with me that people could see colors even then? And my scaled-down originals (Wikipedia says a model is a simplified copy of reality - that's why I prefer to build scaled-down originals) catapults the viewer back in time 100 years, thus showing the impression of that time. And it was in color 🙂
But I added a b/w one for you anyway.
31 May 2020, 12:09
James CStunning looking build 👍 Pic #9 reminds me a lot of some of my landing mis-haps in Rise of Flight😉
31 May 2020, 18:35
bughunterThx Jim 🙂 Such picture is only possible, if the airscrew is able to rotate. I'm not a gamer, but I have seen a virtual Dolphin flight on yt. And no worry, the gear is robust - see the WIP album WIP - Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin | Album by bughunter (1:48)
31 May 2020, 18:44
Choppa NuttaSome of my landings with the RC models have been more like pic 10 on occasion !! 😄 😄 😄
I reckon pic 17 is my favorite though, the day light gives it an early morning state of readiness atmosphere about it.
One can just imagine a pilot getting ready behind the camera 🙂
31 May 2020, 20:40
Slavo HazuchaDidn't think seeing a Dolphin in the middle of a grass field on a forest backdrop would look this good!😉 👍
6 June 2020, 05:28
bughunterSlavo, your are right. Some sky on the pictures would be nice, but was not possible on the balcony.
6 June 2020, 14:09
gorbyThanks for the link Frank, I missed this one the first time around. Beautiful model of a beautiful aircraft!
25 January 2023, 15:35
bughunterThank you gorby! Yes, I like the model and the kit was great too, but I have to admit that the "stagger wing" makes the Dolphin look kind of ugly. There are not many biplanes where the lower wing is so far forward compared to the upper wing.
25 January 2023, 21:51
Kyle DeHartDon't believe I was on scalemates when this came around the first time but I'm happy it's resurfaced. Beautiful, as ever.
25 January 2023, 21:55
Slavo HazuchaJust browsing through my 1400 bells and this came up - wow again - a "Gesamtkunstwerk" 😉 - usually a good BW pic of a Great War plane looks best/most "true to original" but here I really love the color shots... particularly pic 15 - the wooden prop on the dark blue cowling - somehow very special 👍
14 March 2023, 20:28
bughunterThank you Slave for resurfacing this Dolphin!
At that time I tried outdoor pictures from the balcony. Now my way to do the final pictures is much more improved in a better environment.
Hmm, should I redo the pics? Let's see.
14 March 2023, 21:03
Album info
The pilot mentioned in a letter home the painting, so the blue areas are documented.
