Subject: Re: C-160Z transall article
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "stephen murray" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:00:30 -0700

Hi Stephen,
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: stephen murray 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 5:28 AM
  Subject: C-160Z transall article

  "1/72 C-160Z Transall SAAF" 

  by "Stephen Murray"
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        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here 

  Built for the SAAF/Africa Group Build here on ARC.Kit is made by Heller and is based on the Bobcat kit that was kicking around a few years back.As it was the bobcat kit, it had a lot of moveable parts plus the cockpit glazing was atrocious.During construction, I had to use a good bit of filler around wing root join,engines and the nose area.There was also a good ammount of swearing added in and i have lost count the number of times the kit was taking flying lessons.A lot of gaps needed filling in on fuselage join aswell.he cockpit is extremely basic to sy the least with no instrument panel as such so I modified one I had that came out of an old B707 that was scrapped. I painted the interior a dark green to try and hide lack of detail inside cockpit. I refused to use the glazing that came with the kit and instead opted to use humbrol clearfix which seems to have worked okay.For the colours I relied on the help of fellow modellers and of course our SAAF books we have.Model was brush painted.SAAF markings came from a generic SAAF sheet that Biltongbabe has in her stash.All in all a challenging build and one I won't repeat for a good while (until another transall scheme shows up!!).