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It is not my habbit to re-do textures which have already been done by other repainters. However in this case I made an exception as this repaint doesn’t really look like the other repaint of the same aircraft.
As pictures from the Great War are always in black & white and often of poor quality. Therefore there is a lot room for the artists own interpretation. This is why there are also many different ideas about the Sopwith Camel flown by the Belgian ace Jan Olieslagers. In the original package of the Classic Wings Camel there is a version of this Camel with a white nose with red triangles. However in the Stampe & Verdongen museum there is a replica which has the white nose with green triangles and other differences. I based my repaint on the profile by James F. Miller in the book “the Belgian air service in the first world war” by Walter Pieters. Which in my opinion comes very close to the well-known picture of this aircraft and its pilot.
The "Antwerp Devil" was the first man to achieve a speed of 100 km/h on a motorcycle. Olieslagers fascination with racing motorcycles led to a world championship in 1902. As his interest shifted to aircraft, he purchased a plane in 1909 and within four years, he'd set seven world records. When the Germans invaded Belgium, he and his two brothers joined the army and donated their three Blériot XI monoplanes to the war effort. In his first aerial combat, Olieslagers attacked an enemy aircraft armed only with a pistol. Throughout the war, he seldom bothered to claim the enemy aircraft he destroyed. Despite a modest score of six confirmed victories, Olieslagers flew 491 sorties and engaged in 97 dogfights. Returning to Antwerp at the end of the war, Olieslagers was responsible for the development of the Antwerp Airport in 1923. (Source : The Aerodrome)
Originally Posted by huub vink
. Yep it is sometimes handy to have friends in Brussels.... 
I thought the first word on the small print was going to be Clayton with Ltd after Shuttleworth but couldn't be sure. Some museums are really good about this sort of thing and long may that continue. Others on the other hand can be so unhelpful, it's painful!!
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