Subject: Re: 1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18 A Hornet
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Neil Burkill" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:39:56 -0700

Hi Neil,
Thanks for sending in your F-18 article with 16 pics.  I'll have this on ARC
on July 4.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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Work like you don't need the money.
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Sing like nobody's listening.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Burkill" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: 1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18 A Hornet

> Hi Steve
>
> These are the first eight pics for the F 18 for the Gallery. Will send the
> rest in another email....
>
>
> 1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18 A Hornet 'VFA 113 Stingers'
>
> Built almost straight from the box except for some masking tape for seat
> belts and the cockpit detail added from wire, plastic rod and stretched
> sprue. Undercarriage legs also detailed with wire for hydraulic lines etc.
> Actuating rods for the airbrake and retracting ladder were replaced with
> lengths of chrome plated sewing needles. AIM 9 Sidewinders were
scratchbuilt
> from plastic rod/plasticard and the GBU 12's were scratchbuilt using Mk 82
> bombs, plastic rod and sheet and a little wire.
>
> Finished with Humbrol paints with panel lining highlighted with Paynes
Grey
> oil-paint and additional weathering and fading added by airbrushing and
some
> pastel-chalks.
>
> Neil Burkill.
>
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