Subject: Re: Gallery Submission - A6M2-N Rufe Part 1 of 3
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "C J" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:01:33 -0800

Hi Chip,
Thanks for sending in your Rufe article.  It looks fantastic.  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

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----- Original Message -----
From: "C J" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 4:22 PM
Subject: Gallery Submission - A6M2-N Rufe Part 1 of 3

> I'm sorry for sending it this way, but for some
> reason, it wouldn't go through my regular mail server.
>  This e-mail has the text and 3 files, part 2 will
> have 3 attachments with no text, and part 3 will have
> 2 attachments with no text.
>
> Gallery Template #08
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> "1/48 Hasegawa A6M2-N Rufe"
>
> by "Chip Jean"
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> Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo
> 01.jpg here
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> This is Hasegawa's 1/48th scale A6M2-N Rufe, built
> mostly out of the box, with only the addition of Model
> Technologies seat belts and Aeromaster decals.  This
> kit is a gem and assembles very nicely, with no real
> fit problems.  If you build this kit, remember to put
> a lot of weight into the front of the float.  Keep in
> mind that you're building a tail-dragger that is gonna
> have to sit level on the docking trolley.   Since
> construction was so easy, the real challenge to this
> aircraft was the finish.   In my opinion, aircraft
> like this Rufe, painted only in dark green and gray
> need some shade variation to bring them to life, in
> this case I went for a weathered look.
>
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> After construction, I started out with pre-shading the
> panel lines on the bottom with black paint followed by
> an application of Tamiya JN Gray.  The key to
> preshading is to control the application of gray so
> that it doesn't completely cover and hide the black,
> but at the same time cover enough of it so the panel
> lines don't look unrealistically dark.  I knew
> pre-shading wouldn't work well on top because of the
> dark green, so I decided to post shade.  I sprayed the
> entire top and sides with Tamiya JN Green.  I then
> mixed some JN Green and white to a 9/1 ratio and
> sprayed that inside some panels, and streaked it over
> some others.  Next, I sprayed Tamiya NATO black mixed
> with a little bit of dark blue on the engine cowling.
> When the paint was dry, I buffed it out with a soft,
> clean rag.  This serves 2 purposes; first, it gets
> paint dust from spraying, or dead paint, as I call it,
> off the model, making for a smoother surface and
> allowing for fewer coats of gloss.  Second, it helped
> blend the lighter green in with the darker green so
> the transition between the colors wasn't so stark.
>
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> I glossed the model with two coats of Future and then
> applied decals.  The Aeromaster meatballs, which were
> printed on a separate sheet from the other markings,
> would not react to any decal solvent and would not
> settle into or over any surface detail, so I scrapped
> them and used the kit meatballs.  The rest of the
> Aeromaster decals went on with no problem.  I then
> washed the model to get off any decal glue and solvent
> residue, then applied another coat of Future to seal
> on the decals.  I followed this with a very thin spray
> of Tamiya smoke over the panel lines.  Next was a coat
> of Testors Dullcoat, paint chipping done with a silver
> pencil, followed by the addition of the windscreen,
> canopy, engine, cowling, prop, outboard floats pitot,
> and antenna.
>
> Click on images below to see larger images
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> Photos and text © 2003 by "Chip Jean"
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