The second picture is
not from a model. It‘s from a photo essay that I did of an actual authentic Sopwith
Camel, the most successful fighter of the great war. The photos were taken at
the National Aviation Museum in Ottawa. They are part of the research that I do
to built a 1/32 scale model of the airplane. I choose one the close up photo because
WWI airplanes are not really pretty as a whole. They are full of strings and
not really streamline or beautifully aerodynamic but the details are amazing. With
the picture taken from a low angle and by putting a blue sky with clouds in the
background one feels a sense of what it would have take to be one of those
pioneering knights of the sky.
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