From: "Steve Bamford ARC" To: "Victor Yong" References: <20040829160847.23620.qmail@web90008.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: 31 Aug Malaysia National Day Submission Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:47:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Unsent: 1 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Hi Victor, I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today. Thanks for sending it in. Steve Bamford Aircraft Resource Center http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com 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 ----- From: "Victor Yong" To: "Steve Bamford ARC" Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 9:08 AM Subject: Re: 31 Aug Malaysia National Day Submission > Hi again. > > Sorry, should have done this in the first place... > You should have gotten it all in the word document I > sent earlier, but here it is again just in case... > > Sorry again and thanks! > > Victor > > Article starts here: > > "The Royal Malaysian Air Force: What is, might be and > never will be" > by "Victor Yong" > -------------------- > Malaysian National Day 2004 > > A note: > Because my current place is rented, and I used to move > once every 12 months, I've discovered the horrors of > moving house with models (!), so I've decided to leave > some parts off for easier storage; parts like nose > probes, air data probes and fins like the Hornet's GPS > Antenna. Ah, the sacrifices we must make. > > On to the models: > > There are 4 models, all in TUDM colours: a 1/48th > Hasegawa F/A-18D Hornet (what is), a 1/72nd Italeri > Hawk 100 (what is), a 1/72nd Italeri Su-34/32 Strike > Flanker (what might be), and a 1/72nd Hasegawa VF-1J > Macross Valkyrie (what never will be). All kits are > built OOB. > > The Hasegawa Hornet goes together fairly easily with > very few problems. The weapons came from the Hasegawa > Weapons Kits. I used Model Master FS36118 Gunship > Grey for the jet and Gunze FS36118 Gunship Grey for > the centreline fuel tank. Note the difference in > colour. The decals are the excellent ones from Jason > Cheah's F-4dableModels. > > The Italeri Hawk 100 is a very nice kit, and goes > together without any problems at all. I decided to > use slightly larger insignia then those on the real > TUDM Hawks because I wanted the insignia to be more > visible. Decals are kit decals, with the TUDM > insignia from ScaleNutz. I used Gunze Medium Sea Grey > BS381C:640 since it seems the closest match to the > colour given. Many thanks to Thomas Ng for kindly > providing pictures of TUDM Hawks, and Aidy for > supplying the colour of TUDM Hawks as BS381C:637 > medium sea gray. > > The Italeri Su-34/32 Strike Flanker was another just > for fun what-if idea. I replaced the tails with ones > from the 1/72nd Italeri Su-27 Flanker-B. However, the > base of the tails of the Strike Flanker are slanted > slightly compared to those of the Flanker-B, so > anybody who wants to do the same thing will be in for > a lot of puttying to fill in the gap! I didn't have > time to putty it up (besides, storage with those tails > are a pain) so examine the tail picture closely for an > idea of the gap. The Strike Flanker is coloured in > Gunze FS36118 Gunship Grey. > > In 2011, after the Zentraedi global assault, the > survivors of the RDF contingent based in Peninsular > Malaysia banded together with the remnants of the > Malaysian government to fight off Zentraedi from the > crashed Zentraedi warships. Lacking guidance and > support from RDF High Command in those early days > (indeed, most of the RDF High Command were killed), > the RDF Veritech squadron agreed to adopt TUDM colours > to provide a symbol to rally the people. When the RDF > High Command was re-established, the contingent > returned to RDF control, but the Veritechs were > allowed to retain their TUDM colours as a special > squadron. > > VF-1J was done on a whim. I replaced the UN Spacy > roundel with TUDM ones, and the number on the other > wing with the letters "TUDM". However, I replaced the > UN Spacy roundel with a TUDM one of the same size on > the sides of the cockpit, but the results looked a bit > weird to me, so I used smaller ones on the wings, and > they certainly looked better! I used Gunze Medium Sea > Grey BS381C:640 and the decals are kit decals, with > the TUDM insignia from ScaleNutz, and the plane > numbers taken from leftovers from F-4dableModels' TUDM > Hornet sheet. > > > Photos and text © 2004 by "Victor Yong" > Special thanks to Karen Wee and Grace Low. > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail