Tag: Camel

• Revell Sopwith Camel – Part Four – A Terrible Death

  

  But a nice finish…Old vaudeville joke. Laugh now. Please. The Revell kit was never going to be a show-winner, but then that was never going to be me anyway. And I am happy to say that it has turned out rather pleasingly. I’ve compared it to the Academy kit of a Camel built last year…

  Dick Stein

  January 28, 2023

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  biplane, Camel, Sopwith, WW1

• The Curse of the Were-Decal

  

  A modeller’s Halloween horror story… I had just gotten to the decal stage for a new model – a tiny little Academy 1:72 Sopwith camel. Lovely model, with interplane and cabane struts that just fell into place. And a simple colour scheme for mine – the RAF museum plane at Hendon; khaki and linen. The…

  Dick Stein

  November 1, 2021

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Academy, Camel, Decals, Mr mark setter

• Sopwith Camel – Part Five – Hendon’s Prize

  

  On some occasions I will have all I need to decorate a model but miss out on one thing. In this case it is a set of small decals for the airframe number. There is one on the Academy decal sheet, but it’s wrong for the Hendon camel. I adopt a sensible attitude to these…

  Dick Stein

  October 31, 2021

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models

  Camel, Decals, Hendon, Sopwith