Eduard 1/48 Sopwith Camel F.1 Clerget "Wonga Bonga"

[Lightningboy2000]

Recently completed this for a club group build. Really nice kit & nice to do something that I wouldn't normally build.

Eduard 1/48 kit & I decided to build "Wonga Bonga". Named as such because the Gotha G.IV bombers which these attacked were given the knickname Wonga, & Bonga is what these did to them!

B3834 FL Arthur F. Brandon August 22 1917.

All completely built out of the box without any extras & rigged using the 1/72/1/48 gauge EZ line stretch rigging material.

Mostly painted with Vallejo paints & chose 71.041 & added a small amount of dark green to it for the dark mahogany colour for the fuselage & upper wings. Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium was used on the engine cowling. All wing ribs were masked & preshaded & an oil wash was applied to the underside linen colur. Final matt coat was the XXL Matt by VMS.

 

 

 

 

[glwanabe]

Very nice

[Toryu]

Excellent display, both model and vignette! The wooden propeller is awesome.

[Lightningboy2000]

10 hours ago, glwanabe said:

Very nice

 

2 hours ago, Toryu said:

Excellent display, both model and vignette! The wooden propeller is awesome.

Many thanks chaps, much appreciated! 👍

[russ c]

Great looking Camel and Dio`, really nice work

[Lightningboy2000]

4 hours ago, russ c said:

Great looking Camel and Dio`, really nice work

Cheers Russ! 😊👍

[Courageous]

Fantastic, voted for it on the day. Love the photography. Now stop dithering and get on with your Greek F-16.

 

Stuart

[Lightningboy2000]

26 minutes ago, Courageous said:

Fantastic, voted for it on the day. Love the photography. Now stop dithering and get on with your Greek F-16.

 

Stuart

Thanks mate, who won in the end? I've got primer on the F-16, so "some" painting will occur this week. 😁

[Courageous]

14 minutes ago, Lightningboy2000 said:

who won in the end?

Haven't a clue, I know it wasn't me 'cos I didn't build one. As for the F-16, I hadn't seen any progress and thought it had been put on THE shelf...

 

Stuart

[KingCobra]

A great looking bird. Well done!

[Drakendk]

Just wow!

[Lightningboy2000]

8 minutes ago, Courageous said:

Haven't a clue, I know it wasn't me 'cos I didn't build one. As for the F-16, I hadn't seen any progress and thought it had been put on THE shelf...

 

Stuart

I need to do at least one Tiger Meet subject this year! 🐯😂

[Lightningboy2000]

7 minutes ago, KingCobra said:

A great looking bird. Well done!

 

4 minutes ago, Drakendk said:

Just wow!

Thanks kindly chaps! 👍

[Duncan B]

That's great, you should build biplanes more often.

 

Duncan B

[Lightningboy2000]

6 hours ago, Duncan B said:

That's great, you should build biplanes more often.

 

Duncan B

Cheers Duncan. Nice thought, if I were to choose it would be a DH.9 but as my spare time is limited I'm trying to stick to my cold war and modern jets.