Sopwith Schneider
Two years I have done a
project Lebed, which was a russian copy of the Sopwith Tabloid. This was created from a Special Hobby kit in 1/48 with a lot of enhancements. At the end it was clear for me that I have to do this kit again, but as float plane, as used during the Schneider Cup in Monaco. As a experiment I tried to create the floats from scratch with real wood, but due to missing kit, no decals of that machine and other projects nothing was done.
So the floats led a miserable existence in my showcase ... until last Christmas - I'm now a owner of a electronic cutting plotter. In meantime I catched also the "Limited Edition" kit of the Sopwith Schneider (really pitty, that many parts are not used) so I put all running projects aside and started with this biplane in January.
Now this bird is finished, and I like it a lot!

Beside the mentioned kit I used a rotary engine kit created by
Small Stuff, turnbuckles made in Greece by
Gaspatch Models and created many parts from brass, wood (e.g. floats, air screw, struts, seat and other cockpit parts) and aluminium.
The painting was done with
Alclad,
Mr. Paint,
Gunze and oil paints and pastells for weathering.
The small decals are
LF-Models, as mentioned the bigger markings are masked and painted.
A very detailed build log which talks also about history can be found here:
https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=10756.0It is really great, to have this important piece of aviation history in my cabinet and at the same time as very unique item because this livery is not available as kit

Now the pictures - have fun!

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I have the faintest hope that my model will not end up like this


Source: kingstonaviation.org
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Cheers,
Frank