My Most Difficult Kit Build / Artesania Latina 1/16 Scale Sopwith Camel : Episode 8

[@diyfireking]

Great video 👍👍

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Thank you

[@michaeldehart648]

Love those tiny wooden 'clothes pin' clamps.

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Use them all the time Michael

[@TonyBazett]

At 1/16th scale, the wood frame is a whole new ball game with its intricacies 👏👏 patience is a well fought for virtue 👍

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Thank you Tony, it’s a very special animal this Sopwith camel build 🐪

[@eddywells5689]

Great to see you again 💞👍 great to see the model again great build 👍💪💞

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Cheers eddy, trying to get more videos out again

[@johnnyhollis9977]

Hi John, the thing at the back was simply called a landing skid. Weight was a problem for these early aircraft and adding a 'tail dragger' was less weight to worry about. Great job so far! Regards JH⚓

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Thank you Johnny, landing skid, ye looking at the part that makes sense

[@chapmag6578]

Thanks for posting. I am a few steps ahead. My first model in many, years, learning a lot.

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Thank you for your support, I’ve a couple of pre-recorded videos to release over the next couple of months, I will be filming new guides over the winter months

[@genojoe3176]

John, looking great! It's nice to see something different.

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Thank you geno I like to keep myself interested with changing my different projects every couple of months

[@genojoe3176]

@@Johnbuildsiconic oh yeah!!

[@steve1315]

This is a beautiful model John.

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Thank you Steve

[@gianmattiatesta6366]

Grazie 👍👍👍

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Thank you

[@ekspatriat]

You can get an 8 times bigger kit with the Hasegawa 1/8 kit and I think an easier build.

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Hi ye I’ve seen the 1/8 kit from hasegawa looks a good kit and build

[@PanzerChicken69]

I've build the 1/10th Guillows from wayy back and sometimes wonder about this one. Yours seems wonderfull, have fun! Are you gonna cover it, or leave it as is, a skellleton?

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

Thank you, just leaving it like the skeleton

[@PanzerChicken69]

@@Johnbuildsiconic Looks rather nice that way

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

There is a camel in a museum that’s in the skeleton style

[@PanzerChicken69]

@@Johnbuildsiconic Yeah, and you can see why. I don't think the public truely understands what a wood/linnen/rope plane really is and how fragile those planes were. Just imagine having to fight from what is basicly a glorified kite.. Does the kit takes you ridiculous amounts of time to build, or is it manageable? I remember the guillows to be quite the project and that kit is very basic compared to yours.

[@Johnbuildsiconic]

If I had worked on the kit full time, I would say a year to build, but I started this kit in 2021