Sopwith Camel colours wanted.

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Hi folks. For a while now I have been building a Sopwith Camel in Blender. I hope to be using this as a reference for an oil painting that I hope to attempt in due course, rather then take the usual cg generated and excellent art displayed on this site. However, I am looking for reliable colour schemes, decals and markings for the various squadrons flying these machines. Particularly the Camels flown against the Red Baron and his men. Can anybody point me to some good reference sources please? I am pretty new to the subject of aircraft and perhaps chosen a difficult era to depict since there maybe less certainty and more debate in accuracy due to it being much further in the past. I will post my model up at some point for critique. Many thanks in advance.

Keith.

[kevjon]

Try these books for lots of good stories and colour profiles.

one (http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/Sopwith-Camel-Aces-of-World-War-1_9781841765341/)
two (http://www.windsockdatafilespecials.co.uk/26-sopwith-camel-158-p.asp)
three (http://www.windsockdatafilespecials.co.uk/sopwith-camel-squadrons-41-p.asp)

Whether any of those books cover camels flown against the red baron, I couldn't say.

[BUTTS]

Thanks for the info Kev. I have been looking at your work on this site for a while by the way. Pure magic and inspiring!