Sopwith Camel model

[Flying10uk]

Is anyone able to tell me any more about this model of a Sopwith Camel, please, which belongs to a friend? What I am particularly interested in is whether it's been made from a kit or not and I would strongly suspect that it was. If it was made from a kit is anyone able to provide any details of the likely kit used such as who made the kit, the scale etc. Thanks for any information.

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[mike1967]

1/6th scale and they are or were made by Hasegawa Models in Japan.

[Lee Enfield]

1/6th scale and they are or were made by Hasegawa Models in Japan.

Hasegawa 1/16 Sopwith Camel F1

I have one of these sitting that I picked up at a flea market...
Paul K. Guillow, Inc. - Sopwith Camel

[CINDERS]

Some pictures of a model a chap made for me some 19 years ago out of some (Emptied) cans of Emu Bitter I did have him make me up a Baron von Richthofen one out of Emu Export cans but sadly never got around to picking it up but they are rather unique and very fiddly & delicate being made from aluminium cans. I think it is pretty cool the last pic is where it resides above me in my room

[Peter Laidler]

That (thread 4) was brilliant Cinders. I always said that someone like this, versatile and highly adaptable and skilled is the sort of bloke you'd need to be captured or shot down with. It was these blokes who could turn their hand to anything........... a bit of key making, lock fiddling, rubber stamp making, forgery............... The S-Vietnamese were good at tin bashing.

[bigduke6]

For anyone who has been to the *Pancho Villas ( Astoria Hotel in Dubai) they may have seen a Bi-plane similar to Cinders Focker, but was all made out of Budweiser cans even the wheels and the prop. I tried to make one once I joined the Ship to stem the boredom, must admit I was excellent at emptying the cans but doing anything else with them was a big no no......

* Pancho Villa's was a bar/ restaurant within the hotel, and at the entrance was a very small bloke dressed as a Mexican*

During the times I stayed there I was on VLCC tankers, pre, during and post Gulf 1, one day I remember well, I had payed off and was staying in the Astoria, close to the end of Gulf 1, I went down to Pancho's for a few cold ones, he was black and blue and wouldn't let me in, it turned out the previous night a war between the US Navy and the RN had kicked off in the bar..... I protested I was a Merchant Seaman and eventualy got in.
Speaking to one of the waitresses (always very good looking) she said He had initially tried to stop a fight..... but was in the middle when it all kicked off, poor bloke got thrown all over the place he was only 4 ft if that..........


Cinders, Emu Export was my Poison when I lived in Rockingham, I drank enough of it to float a ship on.....

[mrclark303]

Some pictures of a model a chap made for me some 19 years ago out of some (Emptied) cans of Emu Bitter I did have him make me up a Baron von Richthofen one out of Emu Export cans but sadly never got around to picking it up but they are rather unique and very fiddly & delicate being made from aluminium cans. I think it is pretty cool the last pic is where it resides above me in my room

Emu Bitter Cinders .. 4.6% sounds like a good session beer mate. All credit to those with the patience, it's the sort of great idea I would come up with while creating the raw materials for the model, but it would be forgotten in the morning!

[CINDERS]

Bigduke ~ Yes I have some fond memories of Rockingham we used to play at a weekend annual dart event held up there, get on the hire bus in Bunbury at 06:30, crack the first can at 06:31, one year we were still drinking and competing at 23:00 those dart tournaments you had to be a seasoned drinker to survive some of the newbies ended up driving the porcelain bus.

The model is really well built right down to having the dihedral of the wings being of correct form I am pretty p*ssed (pun) at myself for never picking up its mate it only cost me $20 was still a bit for it but you cannot find another as I am sure the chap who built this one will be long gone as he was in his 70's then. It was an enjoyable exercise getting the raw materials watching the footy on T.V fri/sat nights

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

What a great thread.
Makes me want to build a biplane. Lots of good memories flooding back.
Thanks

[bigduke6]

Bigduke ~ Yes I have some fond memories of Rockingham we used to play at a weekend annual dart event held up there, get on the hire bus in Bunbury at 06:30, crack the first can at 06:31, one year we were still drinking and competing at 23:00 those dart tournaments you had to be a seasoned drinker to survive some of the newbies ended up driving the porcelain bus.

The model is really well built right down to having the dihedral of the wings being of correct form I am pretty p*ssed (pun) at myself for never picking up its mate it only cost me $20 was still a bit for it but you cannot find another as I am sure the chap who built this one will be long gone as he was in his 70's then. It was an enjoyable exercise getting the raw materials watching the footy on T.V fri/sat nights

Although I worked the Saturday mornings, Friday was a Pizza offer for 2 for 1, I used to go for the "British Breakfast" pizza.... about the size of a dustbin lid, only thing it lacked was black pud, bottle shop not too far, so along with the pizza strapped two cases of export on the bike....... (Suzuki GS850) come 1230 on Sat the first case was slowly consumed.......

I look back now and laugh, had some really good times (a few bad ones, only down to a crazed girlfriend who was with me when we landed at Perth) the Export certainly got me through the bad ones and certainly backed up the good ones........Sunday I used to come round to the tunes of Elvis..... in the flat opposite to me, lived "Joy" an old widow who loved Elvis.. the whole flat was full of Elvis memorabilia...... even down to the guest cups....... Sunday she played Elvis from dawn to dusk..... but after rolling a cigarette with certain herbs amongst the tobacco it turned out to be a relaxing day.....