LEGO Creator 10226 Sopwith Camel

LEGO set 10226, “Sopwith Camel”, represents a historic aircraft built from LEGO elements.

Set 10226, “Sopwith Camel”, recreates a recognizable biplane subject in LEGO form. Within Creator, it is placed in the Creator Expert branch, which is associated with more developed display focused builds. The set is not structured around characters or a play scene, but around the aircraft as the central model.

Its build is therefore focused on the airframe, the stacked wing arrangement, the tail section, and the general cockpit area rather than on a figure based scenario.

This makes it most relevant to builders who collect display models, LEGO aircraft, or vehicle subjects in the Creator line. It can also sit naturally among historic or technical subjects built from LEGO elements. Compared with broader Creator releases, “Sopwith Camel” is best understood as a single subject model, with its appeal based on construction and presentation rather than included characters.

Inventory of set 10226

The inventory of set 10226 lists 879 pieces, spare parts excluded: 181 different lots (one shape in one color) for 137 part shapes. The box also contains 17 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 10226

Main color: dark green, making up 18% of the parts, followed by dark bluish gray (15%) and light bluish gray (14%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 10226

136 of the 137 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 10226

One part shape in set 10226 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set. Counting colors, 4 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

No similarly sized set supplies more than a quarter of its parts: set 10226 relies on a little-shared assortment.

Size of set 10226 within its line

With 879 pieces, set 10226 ranks #66 out of 543 Creator sets in our database, which have an average of 421 parts. Among the 321 sets released in 2012, it ranks #23. That is 2.1 times the average Creator set size.