Strelets 172 and 185 - Arab Revolt Part 2

[Koppi]

Today I want to write some words about these two sets. It's also a story about camel riding...
Have fun with the report.
Report in german and english.

https://thrifles.blogspot.com/2018/09/strelets-172-und-185-arabische-revolte.html

[Wiking]

Thank you for the information with the camel riders.
Underlined with pic how not and who to ride on a camel.
Two surprises are that the good old Arifix do it right, at first.
Great idea to compare.
And the second thing is as a modeller who build technical things like me (right now a Gazelle ), will oversee this miss easily.

In this case, a very silly error.

[Koppi]

Thanks. So I think many collectors will ignore that, and will buy the sets. No problem at all. But, in my opinion, it's interesting to know that there is a different riding style.

[sansovino]

I like your figure-reviews. It´s really a pity that Strelets has produced wrong camel-riders. Hope they will learn to do the next figures better....
Please continue your reports

[sansovino]

I appreciate much your reports like I mentioned already above. Your arguments on the theme of camel-riding seemed to be very convincing, but you could find also other historical photos of camel riding. It looks that both forms of riding are possible - with legs in front and splitted legs only a little bit in front like most of Strelets camel riders, but It seems that legs in front are still more often to find:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_cavalry

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-arabs ... 58765.html

https://www.cliohistory.org/thomas-lawrence/akaba/

http://www.georgerodgerphotographs.com/middle-east/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikaner_Camel_Corps

[Koppi]

Hi Sansovino,

a detailed look shows that beduins! prefer my described riding style. Troops on duty for european armies adapted the standard riding style.
The traditional way to ride a camel is the style I described in my article.