Academy Sopwith Camel

This biplane was really easy to put together, and looks really good after assembly. The landing gear will likely be the trickiest part, but after a while, they will hold, and it will look really sharp. A full set of decals is included, in good detail. They look pretty much exactly like the photo.I really don't have anything bad to say about this. I will say that Dark Dream Studio's Pilots of the First World War set makes an excellent set of supplemental figures, and includes such obscure figures as mechanics hand winding the prop, and an armorer carrying a bag of flechettes. It can be hard to track down that set, but worth it.

On the box it says for age 14 and up. I'd recommend it only for someone with a fair amount of dexterity and patience. The pieces are quite small and break easily. I'd recommend not following the instructions exactly. The instructions say to assemble the landing gear and then put them on the model. If you want them to fit in the four small holes on the bottom of the fuselage, I'd save the landing gear for last and assemble them piece by piece on the model. The struts that connect the fuselage to the upper wing are small, break easily, and are difficult to get in place. Its a good model for the price.

Very cool little kit. Smallest one I've built.. I would like to see the Revell kits. I think they are 1/24. WWI Fokker SPAD Camel any help?

Omg this is an awful product. I would have returned it but my son saw the package so I opened it. It is poorly made. Pieces break very easily and assembly was so frustrating due to the pieces did not fit quite right. I've bought other models so its not my first time building model planes. Price is expensive considering the product is so bad. It should be priced a $1.

It's a good model kit, however it arrived with a part missing. Which can be no problem depending on the part that's missing. In this case it was the engine cowling and so I completed the build but the engine is exposed because the cowling was missing.

Was a very easy to assemble, and paint model. Decals did not give me too much hassle, and it was a nice gift for my wife's desk at work.

I'm about halfway through the painting stage on this one. The detail of the molding is very good with one exception: the cockpit. There is no detail at all to the cockpit, just a bulkhead where the control panel should be, a floor and two flat pieces shaped to hint at a seat. Granted, once assembled much of any cockpit detail would be nearly unseen, but some detail, at least a seat, would have been nice. One other issue is the decals for the red stripes; if applied and provided they would not look like the stripes on the box cover. But overall I am very pleased with this kit and look forward to seeing it finished and on my shelf.

Just what I needed