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Getting the hump about a Camel

Here's Eduard's recent 1:48 kit of the Clerget -powered Sopwith Camel . It's one of a series of kits covering the various versions of the famous First World War fighter, done to the latest standards. In other words, they're excellent, and I'm sure they're the best kits of the Camel in 1:48 scale, and will be for a long time to come. I made this as a companion for the Fokker Dr.I I made earlier, for someone who fancied a pair like this. My friend was specific about getting the Red Baron's Triplane, but simply wanted any RFC or RAF Camel to go with it, ie. it didn't have to be Brown's Camel, which used to be given the credit for Richthofen's demise (we know now it was downed by fire from Australian troops). This let me go for William Barker's Camel , which I've often thought of doing. Why this? Because it has some claim to being the most famous Camel of them all, being flown by Barker while he shot down no less than 46 of his total of 50 o...

Finally - the one plane from WWI anyone's heard of

A Little Baby Nieuport

A Yak in the Caucasus

Ernst Udet's Siemens-Schuckert D.III

When one turret isn't enough

A colourful start to 2024

Greatest plane of all time?

Sky blue nightmare

Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt

The best kind of Albatros?