Britains most famous WW1 aircraft - The Sopwith Camel! [REPLICA]

[Sharkman Briton]

You are now viewing Sharkman Briton's proudest creation yet, his easy to fly, good looking and (mostly) historically accurate Sopwith Camel replica!

Hello and welcome to my little replica's showcase page! I went ALL out on this one, and worked hard to bring you a Sopwith Camel replica! (If you hadn't guessed already.)

The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter introduced on the Western Front in 1917. Manufactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company, it had a short-coupled fuselage, heavy, powerful rotary engine, and concentrated fire from twin synchronized machine guns. Though difficult to handle, to an experienced pilot it provided tremendous manoeuvrability. A superlative fighter, the Camel was credited with shooting down 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter of the conflict. It also served as a ground-attack aircraft, especially towards the end of the war, by which point it was outclassed in the air-to-air role by newer German fighters.

I made this beautiful aircraft for many reasons, for fun, to test my abilities, and to muck around with open cockpits and propellors (albeit unmoving) but I was mostly inspired by my history teacher, who did a lesson on WW1 aircraft with me, we talked about Focker Scourge's and more importantly, the Sopwith Camel, previously I didn't know what this aircraft was and had never heard of it, he taught me about it and showed me a clip from The Red Baron (IDK much about what is was, but I do know it's kind of a WW1 drama based off of the Red Baron.) which had many cool bi-planes in it, when I got home I had a look at this 'Sopwith Camel' and tried to recreate it, and this was the result - I'm proud!

There is one thing this thing isn't very accurate at, and that would be the guns, as the only Vickers I could find (they were in the TUKE attack systems mod.) were way too big for the aircraft, so I used normal BDA browning guns.

To simulate the shape of the tail (I've never been able to get it right before and am never happy with having to give in to a normal tail connector B.) I clipped in an NCS adapter, with the clipped & hidden Basic Jet Engine that was normally fine being clipped into a tail connector couldn't handle being clipped into two parts and wouldn't propel the aircraft, so I added a 650 I-beam to mount the engine on and it worked a charm, at the expense of a bit of aesthetics as the engine isn't so well hidden anymore.

The open cockpit is pretty similar to the one seen on my Bunting 101 Monoplane, except with a slightly different decoration on the interior and only one seat to stay true to the real Sopwith Camel.

I ran into offset troubles with the top wing so thats why that cubic strut is there.

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Yes, thats right, the guy somehow survived a head-on collision with the astronaut complex, even though the whole building collapsed.

One download link to rule them all...

Enjoy, and I hope you all like my work!

Edited September 26, 2015 by Sharkman Briton

[pTrevTrevs]

Well, the real Camel didn't have the wings mounted behind the cockpit like yours.

I made a Sopwith Pup once, it's here if you want to look at it: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/120106-Sopwith-Pup-The-Camel-s-Little-Brother

[Sharkman Briton]

Yeah, the pics I could find weren't AMAZINGLY clear in showing where the cockpit was, so I just guessed.

[RixKillian]

This was the first picture that came up on Google Images: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Sopwith_F-1_Camel_USAF.jpg

The wing and cockpit placement are very clear.

I think you have a good start, the wing placement should be a really easy fix. You might also want to look again at the shape and chord of the wings: http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/england/sopwith_camel.gif

[Sharkman Briton]

I was looking at pictures on the wikipediapage, probably didn't notice the cockpit placement.

Thanks!

[ostrich]

I think firespitter has Sopwith camel parts.

[Sharkman Briton]

I tried to go all stock + BDA.

[ostrich]

I guessed that.

[r4pt0r]

I did a google image search for "Sopwith Camel", clicked a perfectly legitimate 3-view drawing of the aircraft, and ended up here. Wasn't even doing KSP stuff tonight, I was looking up plans of the plane for an upcoming RC project.

Strange that I ended up here, but Excellent craft Sharkman, looks awesome.

Edit: RixKillian was the one who posted the 3-view I was looking at haha, thanks mate.

[Sharkman Briton]

I did a google image search for "Sopwith Camel", clicked a perfectly legitimate 3-view drawing of the aircraft, and ended up here. Wasn't even doing KSP stuff tonight, I was looking up plans of the plane for an upcoming RC project.

Strange that I ended up here, but Excellent craft Sharkman, looks awesome.

Edit: RixKillian was the one who posted the 3-view I was looking at haha, thanks mate.

Thank you!