Subject: Re: Tswana F-5s article.
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Daniel PerezVertti" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:20:11 -0700

Hi Daniel,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks for sending it in.   

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel PerezVertti 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:45 PM
  Subject: Tswana F-5s article.

  "1/72 Botswana Defence Force F-5A and F-5B" 

  by "Daniel PerezVertti"
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  I promised you esoteric, so here goes! Botswana received 12 F-5s from Canada in 1996, 9xCF-5As and 3xCF-5Ds. Later on in 2000, they received a further two more family models for a total of 14 F-5s. Ever since then, they have been based at Thebephatshwa AB, near Molepolole, Botswana. The Ever since I saw the article in International Air Power Review (Vol.9), I went bananas over this scheme. I recently purchased the ex-Esci, now-Revell F-5B kit, which is an excellent little kit, and fit the bill perfectly. The F-5s were painted in the former 'ghost' aggressor scheme that were applied to Canadian aircraft of FS36307, FS35237, and FS36251, all Testors MM. The decals are from a modified sheet that custom made by Mike Grant of F-5B numbered OJ25, which was one of the newer aicraft reveived in 2000. I built up the F-5B in about 6 weeks, and was so happy with the result that I just had to fish out the ex-Esci, now-Italeri F-5A. Since both kits share 80% of the tooling, I flew through the F-5A build and in 9 short build days, I had both the F-5A and F-5B in their gorgeous markings. Special thanks to Piet van Schalkwyk for the excellent pics he sent me of OJ25. Enjoy!

        The 'Tswana Twins', Interesting thing I found out during my research....if you want to use an adjective to describe something from Botswana, the correct term is 'Tswana'. Also the people of Botswana are the 'Batswana', and a single person is referred to as a 'Motswana'. The native language is called 'Setswana'. Learn something new everyday! :-)
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