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Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 1:30 am
by jankees
B1 was piloted by Clive Collett, a kiwi ace from Blenheim

Imagecamel (00006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Imagecamel (00003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Imagecamel (00004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Imagecamel (00009) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 11:24 am
by Charl
Good to see once more, a beautiful paint on a great model!
Hope you had an enjoyable break, JK.

For those like me, who wondered what became of Tom Sopwith's Company:
Falling on hard times post-war, the key players sold the company to defray expenses and formed Hawker!

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 11:56 am
by Splitpin
Beautiful work indeed JK .

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 5:51 am
by jankees
I worked a bit more on the textures, and uploaded them on fs.2

ImageCollett(00005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Together with these ones:

ImageMalik (00001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Imagecamel (00016) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 4:18 pm
by Splitpin
Superb ! :thumbup:

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 5:06 pm
by Naki
:hesaid:

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 10:47 pm
by jankees
and more Camels, I must say I like really like to model!

ImageOlieslagers (00008) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

ImageOlieslagers (00003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

ImageMacL(00004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

ImageMacL(00001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 7:15 pm
by emfrat
This may be of interest here, although perhaps it should be in the history thread.
In April 1917, as a teenager, P.G "Bill" Taylor was flying an RFC Sopwith Pup in France. I scanned the photos from his book 'Sopwith Scout 7309' along with a section of text describing how he modified his plane and made a leather face mask after a patrol at 12,000 feet when his nose got froze. Taylor survived WW1 and went on to receive a George Cross for saving the 'Southern Cross' after a smashed propellor blade forced a return to Sydney, 8 hours into a trans-Tasman flight. He was later knighted for his services to aviation as a pioneer navigator and pilot.

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Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 8:11 pm
by Charl
Interesting. In war you always are working the angles, hoping to find a small edge either of comfort or advantage.
Even so far as to claim a "Draught-free cockpit" in something which essentially is open to the elements, at 20,000ft!

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:51 am
by jankees
I'm working on another Camal with a kiwi pilot, Captain Harold Beamish 'TIKI'

ImageScreenshot (17819) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 4:34 pm
by hasegawa
How does it fly? It doesn't have the best reputation and there is evidence in the literature that many have been lost during the training of young pilots.

Re: Sopwith Camel

PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 7:06 pm
by emfrat
hasegawa wrote:How does it fly? It doesn't have the best reputation and there is evidence in the literature that many have been lost during the training of young pilots.


Andreas - This article taught me a lot. I always knew taking off with a big rotary called for a bootful of rudder - now I know why.
It is a long article but the first half is about constructing the replica plane. Scroll down about halfway until the group photo appears. The flight comments start a couple of paragraphs above that.
In AFS4 I have a Camel and a community dev has made a Snipe for it, so it will be interesting to compare them.

https://www.key.aero/article/taming-little-beast

ATB
MikeW