Scale Aviator International Magazine Issue 3 | Page 72

When Art Mimic’s Life
Part II
The real story behind the Sopwith Camel & the 6P’s
Principal........
By Bill Arbanis
The Sopwith Camel was featured in Scale Aviator Issue #2. I thought you would enjoy what is really
going on and perhaps use the techniques’ Bill used to fool you......
Bill now tells me there is a Part III....? Editor
This is the second article in a mini-series. In the first article titled, “When Art Mimics Life”, in the last
issue of SCALE AVIATOR International, I told you gentle-readers about my opportunity to help build
a full-sized reproduction of a WWI Sopwith-Camel biplane, which then inspired me to build a highlydetailed scale model of that same aircraft.
In that article I had 3 photos of me posing with that aircraft in various locations at the small airport where
it was built. In case you missed that article, or have a memory like mine, allow me to refresh it by reposting those same photos here.

Figure 1. Me with the Sopwith Camel outside the machining hangar.....
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