Sopwith Camel

Reinhart Bartsch First 3 Steps

Jörg Luther Hasegawa kit?

Reinhart Bartsch Ja

Wim van der Luijt Linked it to Eduard 8058 (the oldest one in the timeline). This is an open Database....you can make the changes yourself

Peter Moz I couldn't work out how to change it. I tried several times, but nothing appeared to change. When I look at the kit's timeline now, it is still not linked to the Eduard kit.

Wim van der Luijt I see what you mean......when I edit the timeline it's already linked to the Eduard kit, but the timeline doesn't update to reflect this

almaniac Where did you find the Snoopy?

Martin R. Cannot remember really. I guess on Amazon in the toys section (he still is somewhat disproportionately large for 1:32 scale)

almaniac Thanks... I see there are a few 3D models available for printing... I might go that route...

Spanjaard beautiful!

Milan Vukovic Thank you, sir.

Peter Jenssen Enjoy!

Mike Daniels Will do. Looking forward to it. Arrived yesterday. V.nice.

Mike Daniels Here we go!

Dave Morris Please visit the associated album for comments, updates & pictures for this project.

Peter Jenssen -Not a flying doghouse.
Doing the wood effect in the cockpit.

wilky I managed to find the Fokker kits. According to the reviews the S.E.5 isn't a very correct representation of the actual aircraft

Robert W Martel Hmmm,,, too bad,,, . From what I see the Roden 1/48 SE5 looks decent, but would be pretty small, and their 1/32 Fokker D.VI doesn't seem bad. ??

wilky I forgot to put that it is the Hasegawa S.E.5 I was referring to.
I don't know anything about the Roden kits

Robert W Martel what am I talkin about, I don't need German planes anyway! only the Red Baron triplane! Allied aircraft. I don't have room for the whole world of planes!! The SE5 is cool, but they're near $60.

wilky I'm the same except that the A.F.C. operated the S.E.5a so I want them

Robert W Martel Oh cool! yea I like the SE5, guess I'll have to get one,,,, lol

wilky I just checked out the Roden S.E.5a and all three scales have A.F.C. markings. So three more on the wishlist.
None of them have the A.F.C. markings mentioned in their Scalemates listings so I had to research the reviews to verify

Robert W Martel Cool !!

Alberto Bianchi ...Bello!

Colin Grace Good start, watching with interest.

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY thank you

Bart Goesaert nice work so far

Jens the details like me absolutely, the seat made of resin that looks wonderful

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY Thank you Jens. And yes the resin seat is a great improvement.

Hanno Kleinecke Wow , impressive work on that Cockpit and instrument panel. Wood effect looks good .

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY Thank you

EnsignExpendabl 1:28, that's huge! Looking forward to pics when it's done.

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY Voilà un projet intéressant, je sui en train de monter le même oiseau au 48ème. Attention sur le moteur clerget 9 les tiges à l'avant sont les tiges de culbuteur. Sur les moteurs de l'époque elles n'étaient pas incluse dans des tubes. La couleur de ces tiges devrait être plutôt chrome, et elle sont trop épaisses pour l'échelle. Bon montage.

Christian Skottun thx for update Jean Pierre. This is a very old kit, Ibelieve the molds where first made in 1959, and New Tools(same quality) where made in 1981 or something. Not much details and I will make it more or less straight out of the Box... the kit doesn't deserve too much attention, ecause it will never be accurate. But it give some noice training on building bi planes... and i it looks nice. But I will fix the color of the push rods, thx again

Bart Goesaert Nice work on the engine

Greco Otero A few shots of the work done this weekend

Scott Hastings Oh I like there you are going with this...keep posting progress

Martin R. Thanks! Unfortunately, Snoopy won't fit into the cockpit, not even close... So I had to build his trademark hut to "fly on". Fun fact: in reality it would be not so comfortable to sit on the steep roof, and my toy Snoopy had to undergo quite some significant surgery (don't think about it...) until he had a firm sit on the roof

Scott Hastings Ouch...now he is Snoopette!

Oscar Oertly hahahahahaha !!!!!!

Choppa Nutta sweet

Urban Gardini Ouch, that looks like ordinary Academy decals...

Martin R. I was defeated twice towards the end of this build: first by my blatant lack of rigging skills, second by the said Academy decals which did not cooperate even with copious amounts of decal softener

Urban Gardini Academy's own decals is infamous. The best ever move that Academy have done is to link up with Cartograph.

Martin R. I practiced my surgery skills (first tested with Snoopy) on the reluctant decals, with mixed success. But I call it a day and stop

Calvin Gifford Very nice!

Scott Hastings It is awesome, great job!!!

A Casirati nice job, PJ!

P J Thank you for the compliment. Yours is the standard I aspire to!

Es-haq Khosravi Great job!

soheil moghisi nice job.

Hanno Kleinecke Nice work on these WW1 iconic birds, not an easy job I would say. Is that a template that you used for the lower half of the wings
on the D VII ?

P J Thanks gents. Hanno: they are decals for the underside of the wings. The decals need trimming, they are oversized, and I used a little paint under any loose edges to 'glue' them down. It's quite time consuming to paint in the colours, but strangely therapeutic! I think it will look great with the second coat and a matt varnish to seal everything.

Hanno Kleinecke Yes, amongst others, that´s what makes this hobby so recreative, it sometimes almost gets me in an
meditational state... I´m curious on the finals of these " Knights of the air"

P J I'm going to rename the album 'Knights of the Air' – I started with two biplanes but somehow a couple of triplanes a monoplane have crept in...!

Hanno Kleinecke , just the right name for this album !

Jens wie lang bleiben die Finger im Gips ??? , ich kenne den Baubericht , und was da entstanden ist bekommt allen R E S P E K T

Marc Schimmler Danke Jens .... ich sage nur PINZETTE.
War viel leichter seit ich brauchbare Pnzetten habe.

Phil Marchese Nice!

Burkhard D Great job on this old kit. More so as it looks even better in real life than on the photos. The piano string wiring is really fine and delicate. The jpg makes it appear thicker than it is.

Marcel Klemmer Congratulations to this great job.

KlausH Wirklich fantastisch, was du aus dem alten Schätzchen gezaubert hast, Marc. Kompliment!!!

Tim Vereecke hi Christian, excellent work on the Roden kit!

Holger Kranich Hey Anthony! What do i see here, no armour? I´m amazed!

Mike Kryza Hi Tony - a well-chosen kit... Very fine plane.

Anthony Flanagan Holger - surprise, surprise. Many years ago, I had built a Sopwith Camel that I lost along with other models I had built {little brothers, moving, etc}. Don't know when but I'd love to build a Sopwith and Fokker Dr.1 again.

Mike - thanks for the comment. I did a lot more research before I went for this one. Do you have a recommendation for a Fokker Dr.1 in 1/48th scale?

Holger Kranich Maybe this one is something for you? Fokker Dr.I. (Eduard 8161, 1:48)

Mike Kryza Or you take this one - without ET-parts but reboxed from Eduard. Fokker Dr.I Triplane (Revell 04682, 1:48)

Anthony Flanagan Thanks guys. I appreciate the information. I have seen one review on the Revell kit that indicated it might be an Eduard rebox, which is not a bad thing. I will look into both kits.

Zimmermaniac I've build that revell reboxing, fine kit, got another one in the stash, together with two of"em Eduard combo's, looking for another 25