Camels over Italy

[FliK66_J*]

Hello, my fellow aviators!

 

I have used the past weeks of the shut down to entertain myself with migrating some of my old RoF skins to FC. It had initially begun as an experiment, and when it worked out fine for one skin I just had to give it a try on the complete set. The two packages contain historical Camel skins for three RFC squadrons at the time of their service on the Italian front, namely 28 Sqn, 45 Sqn and 66 Sqn.
 

Why two sets? Well, I simply did not want to decide for what side of the "PC10 was green – PC10 was brown" discussion I should opt in and by this ruling out the remaining fraction; so I made an olive drab as well as a brown version of each scout in the set. I want to apologize right away for any errors or deviations from the originals – I have tried my best to match the skins as close as possible to the historical sources. With one exception: B5193, Lieut. D.C. Wright. I was not able to find a source which would tell what particular flight he was appointed to, or alternatively what markings the scout in which he died on feb 20 1918 near Conegliano bore; this is the only skin where I have augmented and attached a detail without having historical proof. Yet I really wanted to include Lieut. Wright by all means, for he can be seen on a photograph of the crash site and I wanted him to be remembered as a young man up in the sky, rather than a nameless, shattered body amidst the debris of his Camel.
 

My main sources – besides web finds and cross-references in my books about the k.u.k Luftfahrtruppen – for these skins are:

• Norman Franks, Sopwith Camels over Italy (Pen & Sword Aviation)
• Norman Franks, Sopwith Camel Aces of World War 1 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 52)
• L.A. Rogers, Sopwith Camel Squadrons (Windsock Datafiles Specials)
• J.M. Bruce, Sopwith 2F1 Camel (Windsock Datafiles 6)

 

Downloads

No 28 Sqn, No 45 Sqn, 66 Sqn (brown, renamed according to the new naming conventions)

No 28 Sqn, No 45 Sqn, No 66 Sqn (olive drab)

 

 

The following serial numbers/pilots are included:

 

No 28 Sqn

B2455 Forder

B4628 Montgomery

B5169 McEwen

B5193 Wright

B5401 Thomson-Curweth

B6285 Jarvis

B6313 Barker

B6344 Halonquist, Mitchell

B6345 Mulholland

B6363 Wilson

B9310 Robins

D8239 McEwen

E1502 Foss

unknown serial no, Wilson (post-war)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No 45 Sqn

B2407 Masters

B2430 McNabb Hand

B2494 Thompson

B5181 Cottle, Bowles, Gibson

B6238 Moody, McNabb Hand

B6354 Firth, Bush, Cottle, Huins, Eaton

B6372 Frew

B6383 Moody

D8237 Cottle

 

 

 

No 66 Sqn

B5648 Jerrard

B6313 Barker

B6424 Birks

B7353 Bartlett

D8108 Birks

E7211 Goode

 

 

 

Unfortunately the devs of FC have no intentions to add the Albatros DIII to the game, not to speak of an Italian map, so that these Camels might meet their Austro-Hungarian opponents (for whom I had made a number of skins over at RoF) once again. But the Kuban map and some German DVs will be as close as FC will get to the Italian theatre and will have to make do for the history-nerds amongst us.

 

Having this said, I wish you all a great time and see you in the sky,

FliK66J

 

 

 

 

Edited May 22, 2020 by FliK66_J*
New naming conventions for skins