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Shooting the breeze

paddy

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I love the concept of this but putting all that effort into something that doesn’t fly and is never really finished kills it for me. The wood is obviously laser cut which helps. I remember hours carefully cutting out wing ribs that were just printed on to sheet balsa to build gliders. I used to build a glider called a Keil kraft dolphin, I hate to think how many I built but they flew superbly, and a quick search shows they still make it 60 years on 😊 I remember I used to use a large cork mat we had in the bathroom, much to mums annoyance, to pin the parts flat 😊..they gave you like a 2” cube of balsa to carve the nose which i never got symmetrical.

As for this camel ? I would love to build it but I don’t have the bench space or anywhere to put it when done even though this is 1/16 and most of these are 1/8

What do you guys thing ? does It appeal?

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I did see a guy that built one of these and covered it with tissue paper etc and painted it but like all models you just cover up all the work.
 
Is that a Gallows or one of those you get on installments?
More like what you face when building them as a kid! Balsa, tissue, and vacuum-formed plastic, makes a deadly combination. @paddy had a cork board, I had a piece of pin and push pins. YET, it did help me for the Airframe part of the A&P licenses I was shooting for in High School.

Gallows humor...
 
They are both available in 1/16 Saul but the has does look like plastic wood and its no where near s detailed. Those are huge 1/8


Only the Hasegawa 1/16th scale are plastic model kits. The 1/8th are metal, wood, and more.

Item description for the 1/8th scale "Sopwith F.1 Camel"

One of the most advanced aircraft kits ever made, Hasegawa's 1/8 Sopwith Camel is a building experience that will keep you busy for quite some time. With a wingspan of 106.7cm and a length of 71.45cm, this masterpiece is made up of nearly 1,200 parts formed from just about every material ever seen in a model: wood, plastic, aluminum, rubber, brass, white metal and more. Includes assembly instructions in English, assembly tools, and other guides to assist you in the completion.
 
whats really anoying is i looked at these before and the reviews were scathing. One said the cast metal parts for the engine etc were so bad as to be unusable but i cant find these reviews now to see which model was so bad. If that is the case then this is big money for some balsa :)
 
That looks really neat. But the closer you look, the turnbuckles are flat. At this scale you can have working turnbuckles.

whats really anoying is i looked at these before and the reviews were scathing. One said the cast metal parts for the engine etc were so bad as to be unusable but i cant find these reviews now to see which model was so bad. If that is the case then this is big money for some balsa :)
I remember those types of reviews also. I think it was on the Model airways Camel. That website that stole other people's tools and stuff was where I read it at. Micro something.
 
I looked at the Hasegawa Sopwith a few days ago trying to decide which biplane I was going to try first. I don't mind the idea of covering the work with paper honestly. The process of building a plane almost like a real thing would be satisfying. And I would know it was there.
 
You're skills would make an amazing aircraft in this scale. Looking at the photos you'd be throwing out half the hardware that comes with it.
 
There are some PE micro versions of the frames in 1/72nd and 1/48th, but they are so-so at best. The ones I have seen built usually have issues with keeping the PE straight and unbent, so nah.
 
In conclusion i think if you want a high detailed cutaway model i think the Hasegawa 1/8 Could be the way to go for ease of build but I think you might need to address the turnbuckle issue as i dont think any of them are correct for the Camel.

In 1/16 probably the model airways but be prepaired to do a lot of cleaning up


For some the making it work is half the fun but i think this is very much a model that is as good as the person building it unlike the Has which is more likely to be OTB buildable.

If i see a MA version cheap i might be tempted


If you have an hour to spare this is quite good

 
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