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I gathering resources for a 1/48 Revell (Eduard) Sopwith Camel that I am going to do in Aussie Ace Harry Cobby's 4 Squadron markings. I've just bought the Novascale decal set for his plane and have also downloaded the relevant WNW instructions for the Clerget Camel as well as the Camel/LVG Duelist kits both of which have markings for 4 Squadron aircraft just to get WNW's interpretations and I have come across a bit of a conundrum that I'm hoping the Camel experts might be able to help me with. Cobby's E1416 is a Ruston and Proctor built machine as are the camels depicted in the WNWs instructions. The Novascale Decals instructions, as well as a lot of the profiles on the net, seem to depict E1416's cockpit side panels and turtledeck as woodgrain yet the WNWs instructions show Watson's B7406, Kerr's E7190 and Thornton's E7241 as having those panels overpainted in PC10. In most of the images that I've seen it's impossible to tell the difference between dark varnished wood and PC10. Was this a Ruston & Proctor factory finish, a squadron level marking or WNWs interpretation of the grainy B&W pictures? Also the only photo that I've seen of Cobby's E1416 appears in Osprey's Air Vanguard on the Sopwith Camel, does anyone know of any other pictures of this aircraft? Any help would be much appreciated
Dave Rickard
Rockhampton QLD