Got this as a bundle of 2 dozen kits from a shop that was going out of business....have an entire squadron of WW1 planes from various combatants.....eventually I'll get them all done.😀
This was my first plastic model! 12 years ago at my scouts rememberance day ceremony, we watched the Battle of Britain and all made this exact kit! Nowhere near as well as you I’d obviously!🤣 Good times
@@ModelMinutes I rember the matchbox "Aerobatic teams" gift set which had four kits in it.. The hawk and Gnat from the red Arrows, the alpha jet from the patrouille de France and the saab tunnan from some long forgotten Swedish air force team.... Strange that they included the tunnan as they had a blue angles grumman tiger, a Thunderbirds F-16 and a blue diamonds hawker hunter in their range at the time which I feel any of these 3 kits would have been a better choice than the tunnan.
Hi Matt. I enjoyed watching your show detailing the history of this Camel build. A while back I purchased a vintage Revell 1:72 Camel --it was the 1966 release featuring Roy Brown's Sopwith Camel. The only significant difference was a much sparser decal set; they were not nearly as extensive or colorful as the decals that came with your kit. Applying 55 year old decals was also a real challenge. I was lucky that the decals didn't disintegrate. But I wish I had used some aftermarket decals from say Print Scale to jazz up the plane just a bit. I didn't have any issues with a major seam line along the fuselage. I also hand painted my model as this was a road build and I didn't have an airbrush handy. It came out okay although the hand painted white elevators were and are a bit.. well iffy. I added 1:72 scale rigging wire from SB Models; I find this quite easy to use and much more to liking for the small scale warbirds than elastic line or thread. I'd send you a link to my photo gallery but I think RU-vid doesn't allow URL links in the comments and that would result in my comment being deleted by the algorithm. You did a nice job on this vintage build. To date, I've built 5 of these Revell 1:72 warbirds and while the kits have their issues, I think they are far superior kits to the Roden 1:72 warbirds that came along at least 25 years later. Cheers.
I'm looking forward to this, seeing how you deal with biplanes of this scale which is NOT easy... I did the Airfix Fokker Dr.I and the Roland D.II and they were a pain but when in one piece they're really strong.
@@ModelMinutes turned out well in the end... And don't worry about it not having rigging wires as it looks perfectly fine without them.. Only grumpy grey beards will moan about it. Lol.
Must 55 years ago I was making Aifix Dogfight Doubles pack that included the Camel. Kits were crude back then and we couldn't afford more than one paintbrush and a few paints (we all kept those Humbrol pots in old cigar boxes which didn't quite shut properly due to pots fractionally too high to fit in the boxes). I got pretty good at it - just about as good as a lot of these videos. Hung from bedroom ceiling, they all crashed when brother and I had a pillow fight. Just listened to end and heard this used 1963 tooling - my generation. Revell was far better than Airfix but couldn't afford it. We didn't get all those transfers!
Smashing job. Got this in the stash. Love biplanes, so much more appealing subjects. Usually make a hash of fitting the struts but the pain is worth it. Helpful tip about weighting the wings. Never bother with rigging. Keep up the good work Matt, chocks away!
Great video, Matt. Good to see you got the Camel over the finish line. I've got an older boxing of this kit kicking around in my stash some place. Makes me want to dig it out and have at it!
That seam line could have been fixed by 'filling' the lower side and sanding it to shape. Upper wing's trailing edge still has a significant amount of flash. Looking back at the wheel hubs you don't seem to enjoy thoroughly cleaning parts. There are several visible pin marks, which could have been sanded down easily. Between fuselage and lower wing is a significant gap. Glue accidents in several places. The roundels didn't conform well to the wing/aileron gap. Clearly the decals are pretty thick and could have used more setting solution. The brown paint around the cockpit shows cracks, which I have never seen happen before. Took 2 years to finish, but 1 or 2 more hours 'polishing' the model wasn't in the cards.
@@ModelMinutes More power to you! But if you put "it took 2 years to finish" in the title and it looks like a 12 year old did it during a weekend you have live with criticism. If you can't deal with criticism, don't put your 'work' online. It's that simple.
@@fonesrphunny7242 nasty piece of work aren't you. He started it as almost a beginner, forgot about it for 2 years and finished it off as if hadn't got the extra experience - he said all that in the video
@@cuebj The title clearly says "took 2 years to build", which implies some work went into it and the result is of decent quality. Also, 20 minutes long? Sounds like a pretty awesome project and I'd love to see it!!! But then it turns out, the kit has just been collecting dust for 2 years and was finished poorly over one weekend. See the difference? That's borderline click-bait and I'm simply not a fan of it.
Thanksfor using my video clips Matt - I think if I ever go near this plane as a build it will be 1:48 or bigger! Good vid, good build, and now back to my Wellington Mk. II
For it to take two years, I would have thought this was where you had the balls to build and detail the older 1/28 scale Revell kit to put up against the Wingnut Wings "sacred cows".
@@ModelMinutes I have 3 camels and the Werner Voss triplane (3) and the Spads , also 3 each in the revell scale from the mid 60's , and the reason why is the first 3 of each were a disaster on my part , the second set of these models were lacking , quality , also on my part , and the 3rd set I was lucky to find , the triplane , camel and spad are still in the wrap , and shake my head in remorse how I screwed the kits up so bad , Im sure I will be long gone before there build.
Yeah, i do talk about not including rigging near the end, but basically I pretty much wanted this project at a position I could call it "done" so that i could move on to other things - i might come back to rigging at a future point
Don't feel bad about taking 2 years to make this kit . It's llike the old saying "all good things take time". Heck this reminds me that I started the Special Hobby 1/48 scale Morane-Saulnier AI in 2016......like your Camel it went back into its box.........and hasn't been seen since! Great looking model & great video too!
@@ModelMinutes I've got quite a few unfinshed kits in my stash. Plus I've got quite a few WW1 Aircraft kits which I've not started. So I might take out the Morane-Saulnier Al one of these days!
I made an Revell 1:72 Fokker Dr VII some time ago, took me quite some time but it turned out pretty good I think. Anyways I think your camel looks amazing!
A very good Rescue Build Finish Indeed. I too find Rigging a pain. I am proud of my results in 1/72nd Scale. I can't help but think that rigging detail at this size can be excessive, especially for these tiny WWI Fighters. Using melted Sprue seems to be the way to go, but it takes such a long time. I have seen it done professionally with wire. It looks fine. However, the Professional Finish is for the Camera and I question how long is it before the rigged finishing touches fall by the wayside? Rigging doesn't seem worth it for a Display piece.
Airfix was horrible to get help on decals for the hurricane model I decided to add drops of white to the copit it was a run around to get help my email and comments disappear at there end so I gave up it was not in the kit when I bought it
Thanks for the suggestion - I work months in advance though so my next video has already been made - I will try and get round to looking at that kit as soon as I can though
Good resurrection of a long forgotten shelf queen. A little more work on the pilot would have improved his appearance. A dark wash of his clothes. His goggles painted black. A red brown wash on the flesh areas. Yes, a segment on rigging would be informative, since most WW1 aircraft had rigging. Thanks. Bill
According to various online sources the Sistine Chapel painting was started in 1508 and completed in 1512. Additionally He had a number of assistants to aide him in his work…. I’m sure he would have been able to finish this model in a day or so though
@@ModelMinutes So it wasn’t loss of mojo the curse of the modern modeller? I appreciated the old school use of the toothpick. I used to use a pin. The one that I used to leave in the tube of glue to stop it setting.
If you would put so many layers of paint on the real plane it would be too heavy to take off…😅 Nice result though 👍 The Sopwith is one of my fav planes of WW I (although I feel kinda guilty to fav killing machines in general!)
@@ModelMinutes I am totally with you 😅 stripping is always a pain in the neck - and as not too many details are provided I would have done the same. I tried to get back into the 1/72 scale but realized my hands are too big by now…I did my last biplane in 1977 - a Fokker D. VI - my mom helped me painting it. She had experience because of painting her nails and stuff 😅. Thanks for the memories and cheers from Germany…😉
