VV gets the Hump! **DNF** :(

[VickersVandal]

"Camel?" gasped the colonel. "Have they brought up the Camel Corps?"
"That's right. That's why everyone's got the hump!"



In keeping with the maxim YCNHTMSC, I shall be attempting to blitz the Revell 1/72 Sopwith Camel and the Little Vandal will be joining me with the Academy Camel (in the same scale) that I gave him for Christmas. He has been dead keen to build his own "Biggles plane"

I plan to start around 7 or 8am tomorrow, AEST.This gives me 24 hours before I have to focus all my efforts on rounding up all the lesser Vandals to get to church on time.

Blitzing a biplane is clearly not the action of a particularly sane man, but Arcwelder's Albatros blitz proved the feasibility. I will not, however, be mash-brewing any IPAs at the same time.....much as I would like to.....

[VickersVandal]

But right now, I'm off to watch a cinema screening of Aliens.

LET'S ROOOOOOCK!

[Arcwelder]

Outstanding! I'll miss a chunk of the start but catch the (obviously) cool & controlled finish.

[VickersVandal]

Oh yes, the finish won't be a mad panicked scramble at all....

Right, well feeling a little groggy this morning after the 9pm Aliens screening followed by the adventure of getting back from the Sydney CBD by virtually-nonexistent-at-that-hour public transport, but I managed to dredge myself up at 7.

So....the kit.

It's the venerable 1/72 Revell Sopwith Camel.



The box is long gone as I tend to consolidate kits to save stash space. The instructions appear to have vanished too. Now matter - not like it's fiendishly complex or anything.

[VickersVandal]

So, at approx 7:50 AEST I am off:



First, some wood colour in the internals. Nothing fancy. No point in adding ribs - they'd be invisible anyway.

Revell supplies no internals of course, so a quick scratchbuild produced a seat and IP from sheet styrene and a control stick from coated florist wire.



A lick of paint and now the camera can show up my horrible job on the IP



I've nearly sliced my finger open already, so I should probably do a Safety Dance just to be sure...

[jssel]

On board and watching VV.

[VickersVandal]

Copy that, Blue 2.

Fuselage closed up. I'm off to a meeting at church for an hour or two now. More progress when I get back.

[flakmonkey]

Not entirely sure where the C at the end of You Can Never Have Too Many Spitfires came from, but anyway. Looks nice.

Now somebody has to do a YGBSM blitz. I don't think we had one of those yet.

[splash]

Good luck with you build, unfortunately due to the time difference, I will be snoozing my head off whilst you have all the fun.

[tiffinata]

Looking good, VV.

[VickersVandal]

Right, so we know a blitz is all about the quality quizzine, and it doesn't get much more quality than this...



Yeah, that's right. That's how we do it around here. Oath.


So, a few minutes work after returning from my meeting produced this:



And now the Little Vandal is raring to go, so our second Camel comes into play:

[VickersVandal]

The LV's choice of music. He picked this:

[JohnRatzenberger]

Off to a good start; glad to see LV in there, that's good !

[jssel]

Good beginnings. Interesting food stuffs. Thinking of Men At Work video.

[Clashcityrocker]

Good start Vandals, as for the Vegemite haven't had a jar of that stuff sully my doorstep ever.

Nigel