Subject: Re: ARC
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "bill retoff" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 22:39:18 -0700

Hi Bill,
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

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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.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bill retoff" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: ARC

> Gallery Template #02
>
> 1/72 REVELL F-89J
>
> by Bill Retoff
> Photos by Don Rosser
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>
> Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo
> 01.jpg here
>
>
>
>
>        This is the Revell F-89 Scorpion, 1/72 scale.
> I built the it stock, straight
> out of the box.
>        Revell has a nice little kit here.  It features
> well-done recessed exterior
> panel lines.  Cockpit detail is reasonable, tho the
> instruments are represented
> by decals. You can build either the "D" or a "J"
> version of the '89...and if you can track down the
> relevant photos, you could also build a "D" model with
> "J" fuel tanks.
>        The model goes together pretty well, with only
> the 3-piece fuselage being particularly fiddly.  Kit
> decals allow for 2 options: a Maine-based 75th FIS
> F-89D done in the Arctic scheme, and a North Dakota
> ANG  "J"-bird .  I believe the latter is depicted
> somewhat incorrectly.  The instructions call for the
> Arctic scheme, but the photos I have indicate a
> conventional NMF, with day-glo outer tip tanks.  In
> either scheme, the anti-glare panel decal is too big,
> but can be easily trimmed to the right size.
>        It took me about 3 years of on-and-ff work to
> finish this kit!   At one time,
> I'd pitched the whole thing--unfinished model, its
> still-unattached parts, the instructions and box--in
> the kitchen wastebasket, I was so ticked off at how
> poorly I was doing on it.  But the next morning, I got
> everything back out
> and proceeded to work on it at irregular intervals.
>        My F-89 was  painted and buffed with SNJ, then
> accented with Testors Metalizer paints, plus
> metal-finished bits of decal.  I  painted the plane
> while it was still in pieces--the fuselage, wings,
> tailplane, horizontal stab top, underwing pylons, tip
> tanks.  With careful sanding and some strategic
> "metal" decal placement, these sections fitted
> together pretty well afterwards.  This was my 7th
> attempt at a natural metal finish, and my first
> successfully completed effort.
>        Markings came via Skylancer Decals, a company
> which makes an absolutely cool sheet for F-89Js--Sheet
> CW-7203.  They offer 3 schemes with
> this sheet, and all are tastefully sharp-looking.  One
> is for a "J"-bird from the 321st FIS in 1958,
> featuring a sky blue vertical tail section with yellow
> stars.  Another is a 58th FIS aircraft, circa 1957,
> tricked out with mint green-and-dark blue tip tanks,
> along with a streamlined speed bird.  The third
> option--the one I  chose--is for the 54th FIS,
> stationed at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota in June of
> 1958.  Besides the snazzy lightning bolts adorning the
> tip tanks, there's a colorful squadron device on the
> tail.
>        Skylancer Decals are well printed, sturdy and
> complete.  If you're a '50s Jet Age or Big Bomber fan,
> check them out on the Web.
>
>
> Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo
> 02.jpg here
>
>
>
>
> Photos and text © 2004 by Bill Retoff
>
>
>
>
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