interior side walls are just primed and hand painted with aluminium and hull red. No further treadment was done as the sidewalls are barely visible from outside later
Started as usual with the cockpit interior. Eduard etched set for the dashboard and the seatbelts are really useful. The leather belts for the foot pedals were kept from the kit but just thinned out with a file
SBS Bulldog engine installed. Fit is very nice but I recommend adding Parts 46 - 52 behind the engine zylinders only after the cylinders instead of preinstalling them already in Step 26 and 27. This way installing the cylinders and connecting the exhaust with the cylinders should be more easier
Aircraft was primed with Alclad gloss black and after drying time spraypainted with high Alclad shine aluminium. Although these colors smell brutally I like them very much as they are very realistic colors and wonderful to spraypaint
The original Sopwith Camel pilot figure from Plusmodel was working very fine for a representative pilot of the nineteen thirties and painting was very straightforward and easy
The somewhat ugly and unnatural diorama base from AK Models was overworked with a slight snowy powder to represent a cold snowy day of early winter in the baltic. Now it looks very promising to me
I like exotic aircraft so it was imperative for me to choose another than the usual british ones and I actually found an interesting one: One of the recipients of the Bristol Bulldog was the small Latvian Airforce. They kept the machines until the russian occupation. The surviving machines where incorporated into the russian airforce later.
