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I have resorted to making small incisions in the wing surface,
dropping a dab of glue into the opening and fitting the strut into the the incision.
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I build a lot of biplanes, and that is how I usually attach the struts.
One thing you'll need to be careful about with the Camel is that the lower wing has quite a bit of dihedral to it. If you don't have the dihedral, and you try to attach the top wing after you have glued all the struts to it, you may find the main struts are to short. You might want to attach to upper wing with only the main struts, bend the dihedral into the lower wing, and then install the inner struts. The Fokker has no dihedral so you won't have to worry about it. You will need to scratch build the inner struts for the Fokker, which is a bit of a pain. If you want, I have a file that I made in sketch-up for all the D-VII struts that I would be happy to share.