From: "Steve Bamford ARC" To: References: <2b.52ea9e07.2d8e73e9@aol.com> Subject: Re: Article contribution Billy Calzada 1/72 Vampire Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:48:44 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0241_01C41003.A71DA260" 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_0241_01C41003.A71DA260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Billy, Thanks for sending in your Vampire article. It looks very good. 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: BCalzada@aol.com=20 To: sheb@telus.net=20 Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 8:28 PM Subject: Article contribution Billy Calzada 1/72 Vampire "Heller 1/72 deHavilland Vampire FB.5"=20 by "Billy Calzada 'billbuccaneer' " -------------------- =20 This is my first ARC submission, although I've been a faithful visitor = for=20 several months now. I am in constant awe at the skill of so many = modellers here!=20 The look of the Vampire intrigues me; this is one small kit! Parts fit = was=20 less than perfect, I used lots of "Bondo" and CA gap filling glue. I = sanded off=20 the raised panel lines and used a pin-vise mounted needle and Dymo tape = to=20 rescribe. I then went over these lines with a larger scribing tool. I = drilled out=20 the gun camera port and installed a "Airwaves" photoetch gunsight mount = and=20 clear plastic. This was a mostly wooden jet, and I took some liberty in=20 finishing some panels, which I surmised must have been metal to = withstand engine=20 heat, with "Bare-Metal" chrome. The rest is finished in "Krylon" silver = metallic.=20 The kit decals depicting a Vampire from 112 Squadron, based at Jever in = West=20 Germany in 1952, were used. They went on well, I used "Future" acrylic = to set=20 the decals. The fuselage code letters included in the kit decals were = black,=20 but my internet research seemed to show that they were actually green. I = made=20 some on my Mac computer and printed them on clear decal paper. I stuffed = the=20 nose with lead weight, but it still sat on its tail! My solution? I = affiixed a=20 ground crew figure from the ESCI set peering into the tailpipe. He is = actually=20 holding up the jet! =20 Click on images below to see larger images =20 =20 Photos and text =A9 2004 by "Billy Calzada, 'billbuccaneer' " ------=_NextPart_000_0241_01C41003.A71DA260 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi Billy,
Thanks for sending in=20 your Vampire article. It looks very = good. I'll e-mail=20 you when 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 BCalzada@aol.com=20

To: sheb@telus.net

Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 = 8:28=20 PM

Subject: Article contribution = Billy=20 Calzada 1/72 Vampire





"Heller =
1/72 deHavilland Vampire FB.5" 
by "Billy Calzada 'billbuccaneer' "

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This is my first ARC submission, although I've been a faithful visitor =
for=20
several months now. I am in constant awe at the skill of so many =
modellers here!=20


The look of the Vampire intrigues me; this is one small kit! Parts fit =
was=20
less than perfect, I used lots of "Bondo" and CA gap filling glue. I =
sanded off=20
the raised panel lines and used a pin-vise mounted needle and Dymo tape =
to=20
rescribe. I then went over these lines with a larger scribing tool. I =
drilled out=20
the gun camera port and installed a "Airwaves" photoetch gunsight mount =
and=20
clear plastic. This was a mostly wooden jet, and I took some liberty in=20
finishing some panels, which I surmised must have been metal to =
withstand engine=20
heat, with "Bare-Metal" chrome. The rest is finished in "Krylon" silver =
metallic.=20
The kit decals depicting a Vampire from 112 Squadron, based at Jever in =
West=20
Germany in 1952, were used. They went on well, I used "Future" acrylic =
to set=20
the decals. The fuselage code letters included in the kit decals were =
black,=20
but my internet research seemed to show that they were actually green. I =
made=20
some on my Mac computer and printed them on clear decal paper. I stuffed =
the=20
nose with lead weight, but it still sat on its tail! My solution? I =
affiixed a=20
ground crew figure from the ESCI set peering into the tailpipe. He is =
actually=20
holding up the jet!




  
  Click on images below to see larger =
images

  


Photos and =
text =A9
2004 by "Billy Calzada, 'billbuccaneer' "

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