Camel didnt give me the hump. Sopwith Camel F.1 1/48

Okay so i started this one before my last post, but didnt have enough material for anything really.

Eduards Sopwith F.1 Camel Profipack #8056

This kit, is my first Eduard Aircraft, so the first usual feelings were there. aprehension with using a new company, will the detail be good, will there be little cleanup, (although i must admit somtimes thats half the fun ) Are the decals going to be good?

Firstly, a Miniscule Overview of the kit

Instruction book contains 24 pages, I must poin out in a very Erratic order, going 1,2,3,4,19,20,7 e.t.c. so i presume someone was on weed whilst Stapling these together, not with the conventional 2 staples may i add, this crazy SOB used one. man thats living life on the edge.

Instructions have some nice colour painitng guides,(for 8 Schemes, unfortunately, thay are all green) the instructions are very clear and include rigging diagrams,and the trusty old paint chart ,not much more i can say.

we have 2 sheets of decals, one with all the RFC roundels and the Tricolour tail stripes. and the other with plenty of different markings for all the paint schemes and all of the aircrafts serial numbers e.t.c

part count is quite high for one of these kits, 80 tan styrene parts, 4 clear styrene parts, 11 resin parts 4 pre coloured PE harness parts, and going by the highest number on the regular PE sheet 41 pe parts, but there are duplicates. and not forgetting the express mask for peopel who airbrush. not people who are lazy ( no , thats not me at all)

Building It

Now if there is one thing i have found out its that unless i build like a Monkey on speed i dont get anything done and loose steam a quarter of the way through because my Nan bought some Mr. Kipling cakes round and i just couldnt help myself but pig out on them. So the plan was to barge Straight into this Mofo as soon as it came through the door.

Engine primed and glossed ready for alclad>

So the start of the build was a lot of the usual stuff, cutting sanding (not much sanding though) and construction of the cockpit, the seat had some nice PE wicker to place on it, or a really tacky looking Transfer,