Haven't built a Camel for a while because I built a whole raft of them in 1/48 some years ago based on the Blue Max kit - and used up all the best colour schemes, to my eye. However I need at least one in my 1/32 cabinet, so, what to build?
Initially I wanted to do Roy Brown's MvR killer (yes, I adhere to that line of thought!), but I have a thing about the naked appearance of aircraft missing national insignia in the usual places. Photo evidence shows B7270 sans roundels on fuselage at time of shooting down Richthofen. (I also won't build Nieuports with bare upper wings!)
However much the same markings without the wing stripes but with the essential fuselage roundels were worn by MvR's intended victim 'Wop' May on D3328, with the added personalisation of his moniker 'Wop' on the port side and his girlfriend Lucy's name on the right.
(A couple of the guys in the club are engineers and tell me the plumbers' adage is "Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosy" and insist Lucy's name should be on the left!)
Anyway, nice kit although a little fiddly in many places - that damned cabane rigging 'bullet' for example. Enjoyed building it until rigging stage when I had a problem with my pre-coloured fishing line losing tension after completion. I've never had this before an can only assume the alu paint was responsible. I'll be very careful next time. Anyway a lot of cutting installed lines, catching with new thread and re-rigging. Not 100% happy with final result, but it's going on the shelf now.
Looking for a figure for young Mr May now.
Sandy
