From: "Steve Bamford ARC" To: "James A. Crews" References: Subject: Re: X-1 Submission for ARC Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:35:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0016_01C40388.46C0E9E0" 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_0016_01C40388.46C0E9E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Tony, Thanks for sending in your X-1 article. I'm catching up on a backlog of = e-mails...I'm curently working my way through e-mails of articles from = Feb 9th.....sorry for the slow response. It's good to have your aboard = for your first article. Usually it takes about 3 to 4 weeks to get an = article on ARC from the day you originally sent it in (Feb 26 in the = case of your article) I'll e-mail you when your article goes on ARC. = Your X-1 look excellent by the way. Is the older gent the Chuck = Yeager?!?!?? Wow!!! Very cool!!! 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: James A. Crews=20 To: sheb@telus.net=20 Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:06 PM Subject: FW: X-1 Submission for ARC -----Original Message----- From: James A. Crews [mailto:jacrews@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:25 PM To: sheb@telus.net Subject: X-1 Submission for ARC [James A. Crews]=20 Greetings Steve, This is my first submission to your page (if you did previously = receive this, please disregard, I wasn't sure if it transmitted or not.) = I've been modeling for over 35 years and it is one of my life's = passions, especially with 300 unbuilts in the basement. This certainly = won't be my last submission, already have another one in the works for = your wonderful web site. Thanks!! Sincerely, Tony Crews Burke, VA -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Gallery Template #07 1/72 & 1/48 Scale Bell X-1's=20 by Tony Crews -------------------- Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg = here=20 =20 I built both of these X-1's while stationed at Edwards AFB, California = this past year. Between the longs hours of my job, I was able to take = in as much history of the extraordinary base as I could. And being a = modeler, I naturally had to do an X-1 while at Edwards. The 1/72nd = scale is the Tamiya kit and the 1/48th scale is Eduard's (without photo = etched & resin parts.) The latter kit was built at the request of the = U.S. Air Force Test Pilot Commandant to be displayed at the Test Pilot = School, which was a great honor. Click on images below to see larger images =20 Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo = 03.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized = version of photo 03.jpg=20 Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo = 04.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized = version of photo 04.jpg=20 =20 Both kits were built straight from the box, with the addition of = broomstick handles whittled down from the ends of round toothpicks = (gotta keep the historical accuracy.) Both kits' interior was sprayed = with Testors' Zinc Green Chromate and lightly weathered with pastels and = some dry brushing. The Tamiya kit's fuselage was masked off carefully = using painter's masking tape to allow as much of the interior to be as = visible as possible without showing the seam lines from joining the = fuselage halves. I used a liquid masking agent to ensure that the tape = was tightly sealed to the model, as a bit of paint on the clear portion = would have been disastrous. I used Testors' Gloss International Orange = as the base coat and apply the decals to the dried exterior 48 hours = later. I lightly weathered both aircraft using a very sharp #2 pencil = on all panel lines and a very light mixture of tan & brown pastels, = applied with a closely trimmed brush. As you can see, I VERY lightly = weathered the aircraft as they were both to be display pieces. After = allowing the desert air to dry out the decals overnight, I applied = Testors' Dullcote to give the gloss the toned-down sun baked look that = everything gets in the Mojave Desert. =20 =20 Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg = here=20 =20 The Eduard kit is definitely one of the most detailed and extremely = pleasant to build. I had no problems whatsoever with construction and = the decal sheet provides extras that you normally only find in = after-market sets. So if you're going to do an X-1, I highly recommend = the Eduard kit for the greatest accuracy and superb markings. As you = can see from the picture above, I was paid the highest compliment a = modeler can receive before the Eduard kit took it's place in the display = case at the Test Pilot School. The other is in a glass case in my = modeling room as my most prized kit, complete with Brigadier General = Yeager's signature. Click on images below to see larger images =20 Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo = 05.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized = version of photo 05.jpg=20 Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo = 06.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized = version of photo 06.jpg=20 Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo = 07.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized = version of photo 07.jpg=20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C40388.46C0E9E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi Tony,
Thanks for sending in = your X-1=20 article.  I'm catching up on a backlog of e-mails...I'm curently = working my=20 way through e-mails of articles from Feb 9th.....sorry for the slow = response.  It's good to have your aboard for your first = article. =20 Usually it takes about 3 to 4 weeks to get an article on ARC from the = day you=20 originally sent it in  (Feb 26 in the case of your article) =20  I'll e-mail you when your article goes on ARC.  Your X-1 look = excellent by the way.  Is the older gent the Chuck = Yeager?!?!?? =20 Wow!!!  Very cool!!!
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 James A.=20 Crews
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 = 2:06=20 PM
Subject: FW: X-1 Submission for = ARC

 
-----Original Message-----
From: James A. Crews=20 [mailto:jacrews@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, = 2004 9:25=20 PM
To: sheb@telus.net
Subject: = X-1=20 Submission for ARC

[James A. Crews] 
Greetings=20 Steve,
 
This is=20 my first submission to your page (if you did previously receive = this,=20 please disregard, I wasn't sure if it transmitted or not.)  I've = been=20 modeling for over 35 years and it is one of my life's passions,=20 especially with 300 unbuilts in the basement.  This certainly won't be my last submission, already = have=20 another one in the works for your wonderful web site. =20 Thanks!!
 
Sincerely,
 
Tony Crews
Burke, VA

Gallery = Template=20 #07

1/72 = & 1/48 Scale=20 Bell X-1's 

by Tony=20 Crews
--------------------

Steve Bamford=20 will insert full=20 sized version of photo 01.jpg = here
=

I built = both of these=20 X-1's while stationed at Edwards AFB, California this past = year. =20 Between the longs hours of my job, I was able to take in as much = history of=20 the extraordinary base as I could.  And being a modeler, I = naturally had=20 to do an X-1 while at Edwards.  The 1/72nd scale is the Tamiya = kit and=20 the 1/48th scale is Eduard's (without photo etched & = resin=20 parts.)  The latter kit was built at the request of the U.S. = Air=20 Force Test Pilot Commandant to be displayed at the Test Pilot = School,=20 which was a great honor.

Click on images=20 below to see larger images

Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller = version of=20 photo 03.jpg here.  Clicking on that photo = will bring=20 up the full sized version of photo 03.jpg=20

<= IMG=20 = src=3D"http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Article-Templates/03t.jpg"=20 border=3D0 NOSEND=3D"1">

  Steve Bamford will insert a = click-able=20 smaller version of photo 04.jpg here.  Clicking on that photo = will bring=20 up the full sized version of photo 04.jpg=20

<= IMG=20 = src=3D"http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Article-Templates/04t.jpg"=20 border=3D0 = NOSEND=3D"1">

Both kits = were built=20 straight from the box, with the addition of broomstick handles = whittled down=20 from the ends of round toothpicks (gotta keep the historical = accuracy.) =20 Both kits' interior was sprayed with Testors' Zinc Green Chromate and = lightly=20 weathered with pastels and some dry brushing.  The Tamiya kit's = fuselage=20 was masked off carefully using painter's masking tape to allow as much = of the=20 interior to be as visible as possible without showing the seam lines = from=20 joining the fuselage halves.  I used a liquid masking agent to = ensure=20 that the tape was tightly sealed to the model, as a bit of paint on = the clear=20 portion would have been disastrous.  I used Testors' Gloss = International=20 Orange as the base coat and apply the decals to the dried exterior 48 = hours=20 later.  I lightly weathered both aircraft using a very sharp #2 = pencil=20 on all panel lines and a very light mixture of tan &=20 brown pastels, applied with a closely trimmed brush.  As you = can=20 see, I VERY lightly weathered the aircraft as they were both to be = display=20 pieces.  After allowing the desert air to dry out the decals = overnight, I=20 applied Testors' Dullcote to give the gloss the toned-down sun baked = look that=20 everything gets in the Mojave Desert. 

 =20
Steve Bamford=20 will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg here =
=20

The Eduard kit is = definitely one of=20 the most detailed and extremely pleasant to build.  I had no = problems whatsoever with construction and the decal = sheet provides extras=20 that you normally only find in after-market sets.  So if you're = going to=20 do an X-1, I highly recommend the Eduard kit for the greatest accuracy = and=20 superb markings.  As you can see from the picture above, I was = paid the=20 highest compliment a modeler can receive before the Eduard kit took = it's place=20 in the display case at the Test Pilot School.  The other is in a = glass=20 case in my modeling room as my most prized kit, complete with = Brigadier=20 General Yeager's signature.

Click on images=20 below to see larger images

Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller = version of=20 photo 05.jpg here.  Clicking on that photo = will bring=20 up the full sized version of photo 05.jpg=20

<= IMG=20 = src=3D"http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Article-Templates/05t.jpg"=20 border=3D0 NOSEND=3D"1">

 Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller = version of=20 photo 06.jpg here.  Clicking on that photo = will bring=20 up the full sized version of photo 06.jpg=20

<= IMG=20 = src=3D"http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Article-Templates/06t.jpg"=20 border=3D0 NOSEND=3D"1">

 Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller = version of=20 photo 07.jpg here.  Clicking on that photo = will bring=20 up the full sized version of photo 07.jpg=20

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