This is a 1:144 scale model of an early-war British Sopwith Tabloid with a fuselage-side-mounted Lewis gun and deflector plates on the propeller. Since many painters choose their own mounting system, no peg is included on the plane. Pegs can be purchased separately in the Accessories section of this catalog.

When the Sopwith Tabloid was first demonstrated in late 1913, onlookers were astonished with its excellent performance. The original model had pilot and passenger sitting side-by-side in a shared cockpit, though military machines were single-seaters. Wings were controlled by warping and were of single-bay configuration. Eventually ailerons were added instead. In many ways, the Tabloid set design trends that would carry through to 1918.

The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Navy Air Service both ordered small numbers of Tabloids in early 1914 and some went to France in August 1914. The RNAS had only two on hand in Antwerp before it was evacuated, and one managed to destroy Zeppelin Z.IX as it rested in its shed at Dusseldorf. Ad-hoc mounts of machine guns were constructed including a Lewis gun on the upper wing firing over the propeller arc; another used deflector plates on the propeller.

The Tabloid's service life did not last long after the spring of 1915.

For more data and gaming info on this plane, see https://linen.miraheze.org/wiki/Sopwith_Tabloid.