Sopwith Camel

Model information

Purchase information

About the Sopwith Camel

This aircraft was created by the Sopwith Aviation Company and was used during the First World War by the British.

About the kit

I bought this kit at the Eduard stand at SMC (Scale Model Challenge) in Veldhoven, the Netherlands in 2025. I have the F.1 variant with a Bentley BR.1 engine and will be making the “Black Maria”, used by the Canadian pilot Raymond Collishaw.

Used paints

• Mr. Hobby - C42 Mahogany
• Mr. Hobby - C43 Wood Brown
• Mr. Hobby - C45 Sail Color
• Mr. Hobby - C125 Cowling Color
• Mr. Hobby - GX101 GX Clear Black (shadows)
• Vallejo - 72.051 Game Color - Black (Oil spats, machine guns)
• Vallejo - 72.052 Metallic - Silver (Machine gun edges)
• Vallejo - 72.055 Metallic - Polished Gold (for the instruments)
• Vallejo - 72.071 Game Color - Barbarian Skin (Machine gun handles)
• Rembrandt - 403 VanDyke Brown (oil paint for wood grain effect)

(But don’t get the Rembrandt paint for this, it is an expensive paint meant for oil paintings)

Photographs

I think I overdid the amount of shadow, the contrast is too much. But because it is the underside, that may not be too bad, so I left it like this.

I made a mistake, because I decided to shade the underside of the fusilage. This is to simulate where wooden planks should be. After paining the dark brown on the sides, I noticed that the model already suggests where these planks should be. These did not line up with my randomly placed shadows, so I had to repaint the underside and mask again using a single tape for the sides and underside.

External links

• Wikipedia - Sopwith Aviation Company
• Wikipedia - Sopwith Camel
• Wikipedia - Raymond Collishaw
• Wikipedia - Bentley BR.1 rotary engine