Hi gentlemen!
This is my last production. Started from the Toko Strutter kit, I have realized a single seat french version captured by the Nederland when its pilot, Adj Antoine Paillard, made an emergency landing due to an engine failure on Meylum airfield, 7 july 1917. The L.V.A. repaired the Sopwith, changed the Vickers gun with a Lewis and flew it. All the french colors were covered in orange by new owners, that added orange circles under the upper wing and covered elevators with same national color. Here's the Bomber:
Pilot came from an old white metal production, maybe a little bit overscale, in origin was a british subject. Rigging is 0,08 fishing nylon. I tried, using both french and dutch decals, to duplicate the visual effect I noted in original photos: french shadows still visible under orange coat.
Hope you like it! Comments and suggestions always welcomed.
Roberto