From: "Steve Bamford ARC" To: "Adrian Koh" References: <001d01c3ec92$a5681cf0$a4c871dd@d08101.beroot.local> Subject: Re: Submission to ARC Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:48:08 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0336_01C3FCBA.A0A21800" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Unsent: 1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0336_01C3FCBA.A0A21800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Adrian, Thanks for sending in your excellent F-14 article. You're from = Japan....are you Japanese?.....I get very few articles from = Japan......because of the language problems I think. Your F-14 looks = excellent. I'm catching up on a backlog of e-mails....sorry for the = slow response. I'll e-mail you when your article goes on ARC. Steve Bamford Aircraft Resource Center http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com =20 Live like there is no tomorrow; Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Adrian Koh=20 To: sheb@telus.net=20 Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 1:21 AM Subject: Submission to ARC Dear Steve, This is my first submission to the ARC. I tried to use the tool you = had on the site, but failed. Sorry I am more than a little stupid. Anyways, I am living in Japan and have been building for a few years. = We got all the great Japanese kits here, but great stuff like Future = (for canopies) and Model Master paints are very difficult to find.=20 The Model - This is a Hasegawa 1/48 F-14A Cag Bird of the Swordsmen. = Model was done basically OOB except for Verlinden GRU-7s. The kit did = not exactly fall together like your average Japanese kit, especially = found problems with the Cockpit-Fuselage joint, and where the main = landing gear attached to the fuselage (the angle looked really odd). = Colors were Gunze lacquers washed with Windsor & Newton oils. I like = Gunze lacquers as they can stand up to virtually anything put on them = without marring the finish. The kit decals went on fine and were sealed = with clear gloss which "melts" the decals onto the paintwork then = overcoated with Testors lacquer flat.=20 This one is dedicated to Hal the P-47 Fan! Thanks Hal for giving me = the guts to get on the ARC Kindest regards, Adrian Koh Tokyo, Japan. ------=_NextPart_000_0336_01C3FCBA.A0A21800 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi Adrian,
Thanks for sending in=20 your excellent F-14 article.  You're from Japan....are you=20 Japanese?.....I get very few articles from Japan......because of the = language=20 problems I think.  Your F-14 looks excellent.  I'm catching up = on a=20 backlog of e-mails....sorry for the slow response.  I'll e-mail you = when=20 your article goes on ARC.
Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourc= ecenter.com
 
Live=20 like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Work = like you=20 don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like = nobody's=20 listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 Adrian=20 Koh
To: sheb@telus.net
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 = 1:21=20 AM
Subject: Submission to = ARC

Dear Steve,
 
This is my first submission to the = ARC. I tried=20 to use the tool you had on the site, but failed. Sorry I am more than = a little=20 stupid.
 
Anyways, I am living in Japan and = have been=20 building for a few years. We got all the great Japanese kits here, but = great=20 stuff like Future (for canopies) and Model Master paints are very = difficult to=20 find.
 
The Model - This is a Hasegawa 1/48 = F-14A Cag=20 Bird of the Swordsmen. Model was done basically OOB except for = Verlinden=20 GRU-7s. The kit did not exactly fall together like your average = Japanese kit,=20 especially found problems with the Cockpit-Fuselage joint, and where = the main=20 landing gear attached to the fuselage (the angle looked really odd). = Colors=20 were Gunze lacquers washed with Windsor & Newton oils. I like = Gunze=20 lacquers as they can stand up to virtually anything put on them = without=20 marring the finish. The kit decals went on fine and were sealed with = clear=20 gloss which "melts" the decals onto the paintwork then overcoated with = Testors=20 lacquer flat.
 
This one is dedicated to Hal the P-47 = Fan! Thanks=20 Hal for giving me the guts to get on the ARC
 
 
Kindest regards,
 
Adrian Koh
Tokyo,=20 Japan.
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