From: "Steve Bamford ARC" To: "Colin Whitehouse" References: <20040525T100049Z_4C6A00170000@Twiningsovo.com> Subject: Re: Hawker Seahawk Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 01:44:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_007F_01C4609F.423EE060" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Unsent: 1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_007F_01C4609F.423EE060 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Colin, Thanks for sending in your Seahawk article. I'll put it on ARC for the = next update. 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: Colin Whitehouse=20 To: sheb@telus.net=20 Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 8:00 PM Subject: Hawker Seahawk Hi Steve=20 Here is the kit never to be made again once the CA Seahawk is = released. Thanks for your work on the site. Thanks for your work on the site. Cheers "Hawker Seahawk"=20 by "Colin Whitehouse" -------------------- Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg = here=20 =20 With the imminent release of the Classic Airframes Seahawk I thought = I'd post my old Falcon Seahawk to whet the appetite. I built this about = 5 years ago in New Zealand. The Seahawk has to be the prettiest jet = fighter ever, with the possible exception of the P1081 which with a = similar fuselage and swept wing evolved into the Hawker Hunter.=20 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 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 =20 Forget Dynavector Vacforms, this kit is on a different level. It was = very challenging and took me almost a year due to the amount of work. = Interior is scratch built, gun troughs were made from plastic tube and = cannons inserted and intakes were built from scratch. The worst part of = the kit was the joint behind the wing where the horizontally split front = fuselage and wing met the vertically split rear fuselage and with the = jet exhausts in the middle you to make it awkward. Getting it to line up = and give the plane the correct sit was taxing. This area then received = multiple doses of filling and sanding. No decals were in the kit so all = were from the spares box. I really wanted to build the P1081 and = couldn't face building another of these. I guessed someone would kit a = Seahawk again some time and when they did I'd convert one to the P1081. = So here it is and thanks to the Classic Airframe guys for kiting the = Seahawk again. =20 Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg = here=20 =20 Photos and text ? 2003 by "Colin Whitehouse" Colin Whitehouse AB Food and Beverage Thailand Ltd +66 (0) 2 363 9000 ------=_NextPart_000_007F_01C4609F.423EE060 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi Colin,
Thanks for sending in=20 your Seahawk article.  I'll put it on ARC for the next=20 update.
 
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 Colin Whitehouse =
To: sheb@telus.net
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 8:00 = PM
Subject: Hawker Seahawk

Hi Steve =

Here is = the kit never to=20 be made again once the CA Seahawk is released.

Thanks for = your work on=20 the site.

Thanks for = your work on=20 the site.

Cheers

"Hawker=20 Seahawk" 

by "Colin Whitehouse"
--------------------

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

With the = imminent release=20 of the Classic Airframes Seahawk I thought I'd post my old Falcon = Seahawk to=20 whet the appetite. I built this about 5 years ago in New Zealand. The = Seahawk=20 has to be the prettiest jet fighter ever, with the possible exception = of the=20 P1081 which with a similar fuselage and swept wing evolved into the = Hawker=20 Hunter.

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"cid:JNNNZNFZRQVK.03t.jpg" border=3D0>

  Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller = version of=20 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"cid:FJWRSEQWWNSF.04t.jpg" border=3D0>

 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"cid:DKJWJJFWDWDS.05t.jpg"=20 border=3D0>

Forget = Dynavector=20 Vacforms, this kit is on a different level. It was very = challenging and=20 took me almost a year due to the amount of work. Interior is scratch = built,=20 gun troughs were made from plastic tube and cannons inserted and = intakes=20 were built from scratch. The worst part of the kit was the joint = behind the=20 wing where the horizontally split front fuselage and wing met the = vertically=20 split rear fuselage and with the jet exhausts in the middle you = to make=20 it awkward. Getting it to line up and give the plane the correct sit = was=20 taxing. This area then received multiple doses of filling and = sanding. No=20 decals were in the kit so all were from the spares box. I really = wanted to=20 build the P1081 and couldn't face building another of these. I guessed = someone=20 would kit a Seahawk again some time and when they did I'd convert = one=20 to the P1081. So here it is and thanks to the Classic Airframe = guys for=20 kiting the Seahawk again.

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

Photos = and text ? 2003=20 by "Colin Whitehouse"

Colin = Whitehouse
AB=20 Food and Beverage Thailand Ltd
+66 (0) 2 363=20 9000

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