Colin M - Eduard 1:48 Sopwith F.1 Camel

[Guest]

magnificent colin love the colourisation works really well

mobear

[colin m]

Thanks Ole, I'm quite happy with the paint. Infact, this might be my very first model that doesn't get any weathering - well we'll see.

What a strange state of affairs. Here is my Camel, all paint and decals applied - and I still haven't built it !!

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[spanner570]

I've been quietly following this Colin and it's looking good now.

Yes, it does look strange all painted up, but still in kit form!

With a bit of imagination you could enter it into the 'Crash' build, then after glue it up!

Cheers,

Ron

[tr1ckey66]

Very nicely done Colin!

This is going to be great and you seem to have steamed through the build. Quality work and speedy too. I'm in agreement about the weathering too. My 2 Fokker Dreideckers will only receive light weathering. The WW1 aircraft have such wonderful paint schemes it seems a shame to cover it in grime.

Looking forward to the finished aircraft which can't be too far away now at the speed you're going!

All the best

Paul

[Guest]

awesome,nothing else to say about it,weathering?do a slight bit,not much more lol

mobear

[Guest]

Hi colin, looking fantastic mate, I love these old bi-planes

Cheers, Andrew

[Guest]

Colin the paint work is top notch ,looking forward to seeing it come together!

[Guest]

Fantastic job, cant wait to see the finished product.

Andy

[Guest]

Nice work Colin.

Always amazed to see the so many ways every body has of constructing their models. That is the sequences are so different.

Laurie

[colin m]

So, a late entry for the crash build, nice idea Ron. Or maybe, one day, all 'starter' kits will be like this !! As for my build sequence Laurie, it may not be the best way of doing it but it works for me. The joints are very well engineered with no filling needed (except a tiny bit along the fuselage seam)

But anyway, tonight I'm hoping to get the upper wing on. This is the bit I've been dreading. There's no positive location of the wing struts, so it all a bit 'wobbly' - alignment will be a nightmare. Before I make my first attempt on this task, it's time to raid the kids lego !

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[Guest]

Don't know how i missed this one Colin, superb up to now matey.

Looking forward to the finished article ..... don't stress too much on the struts ok !!

Cheers ....

t'other Colin

[Vaughan]

I too have missed this one Colin great build and a some really nice paint work going on there. Keep the photos coming.

Vaughan

[colin m]

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Thanks again to all for having a look.

So, I now know why we don't see too many Bi-planes around on the forum. Upper wing alignment -good lord ! The pic above shows the lower part of the camel blutacked to the work mat, carefully following the 45 degree line. This lets me view the model from the side and front, all important for alignment. The dihedral of the lower wing was measured many times over and small adjustmants made until I had 9mm clearence between the wing and work mat on both sides. Gentle pressure was applied to the blutak. With the model now firmly stuck to the mat, that was one less thing to move out of place.

I decided just to fix the interplane struts in place, I couldn't work out how I would do the cabane struts at the same time, so they can go in later.

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Now, I only swore once during the fitting of the top wing. Yeah me ! The struts were attached to the lower wing, with loose bits of blutak just to keep the struts sort of in the correct position. (I have to say the location of the struts is not very positive at all) Then lower the upper wing into place, that last bit sounds easy...............

So there it is, upper wing in place. Note to me - walk away very slowly, go to the pub for lunch and don't even think about touching the Camel until tomorrow.

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[Guest]

Thats looking fantastic Colin, i have a nice SE5a kit id love to have built if you fancy it. ill pay you for your trouble mate.

Cheers

Andy

[yak face]

Gently does it colin! looking great now , superb paint finish, cheers tony