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This modification required that the main pressure and gravity fuel tanks, which were behind the original cockpit, being removed and replaced by a smaller capacity fuel tank of 18 gallons. Some ‘Comics’ had one of the Lewis guns, usually the starboard one, fixed to fire upward at 45 degrees.ĭue to the location of the Lewis machine guns, the cockpit had to be moved rearwards by one bay, to allow the pilot to reach the weapons. This enabled the machine guns to be lowered for re-loading and removed the chances of muzzle flash affecting the pilot's sight. The new armament consisted of a pair of Lewis machine guns, which were fitted above the centre section of the upper wing and on ‘Foster’ type mounting. The forward decking 'hump' was eliminated and a lowered and rounded decking was extended from the cowling to the new cockpit position. Therefore, the forward fuselage Vickers machine guns and their famous ’hump’ were removed. Lewis machine guns mounted over the upper wing negated this. This was due to muzzle flash from the fuselage guns temporarily blinding the pilot when night flying.
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The design of the ‘Comic’ version of the Sopwith Camel involved replacing the standard twin Vickers machine guns on the fuselage to Lewis machine guns, located on the upper wing. The pilot's referred to the aircraft as a night fighter as being comical.Įven though the Camel conversion proved more successful, the nickname stuck. However when the aircraft were first used by No.78 Squadron, the poor performance and lack of fire power showed. The first attempt at converting an existing aircraft to a night fighter was carried out on the Sopwith 1 1/2 'Strutters.' So I've decided to use one of the Wingnut Wings Camel kits I have and attempt converting it to a 'Comic'. However, there is no 1:32nd scale model of this aircraft. I have yet to build the many models in my stash, from such as Wingnut Wings, Copper State Models and the new releases from Lukgraph.īut I've fancied the idea of building the Sopwith 'Comic' night fighter conversion of the Camel. As The Salmson 2-A2 model will be finished in the next week, my mind turns to what model is next on the bench.