[WWI] Last Camel beaten to bloody pulp

[Helen and Chris]

Robert,

absolutely fabulous.

If you're not feeling just a little bit pleased with yourself, then you
ought to be.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Karr" <karrart at karrart.com>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:10 AM
Subject: [WWI] Last Camel beaten to bloody pulp


>
> Please forgive the intrusion........................I've finished the
second
> and last "Hasegawa" Camel. I must now purge my inner being of Camel
skeleton
> poisons.
> The only un-modified kit pieces seen here are the basic cowl bowl, pitot
> tubes, tires and prop. Most kit parts, if used, are completely reworked.
> None of the kit brass was used. The rigging is all scratched. The RAFwires
> are each four rows of 6lb fishing line run up on a jig and slathered with
> brush-on CA, then filled and primed with alu colored urethane and sanded.
> Final paint on them is Floquil R&R acrylic aluminum. The only turnbuckles
on
> a Camel are internal, and the flimsy plastic thingies in the kit are too
> big, and only about a quarter of the number needed. Mine are thin
insulation
> with a core of bread-tie wire looped on the ends. The wheel covers are
> wrinkled and stained coffee filter paper.
> The misery has ended.
> RK
> www.karrart.com
>
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