Subject: Re: first completed this year
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 12:15:18 -0700

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

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.arcair.com

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  From: [email-masked] 
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  Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 1:44 PM
  Subject: first completed this year

  This is the 1/48th Eduard FW-190D-11, finished as Red 4, JV-44, Papagei Staffel. Pilot, Leutnant Karl-Heinz Hofmann. Added my own seat belts, and brake lines. Cannon are vinyl covered paper clips. Paints are WEM and decals are EagleCals. First finished for this year, 3 weeks from kit's arrival (Squadron Sale) to finish, pretty quick for me. It would seem that my clear coars ate up much of the contrast between the 82 and 83 greens. EagleCals provide the old side codes full strength, but on the real plane they had been obliterated to an extent. I sanded them down to where they looked about right, then applied 2 brush coats of Micro Scale Decal maker. Still a bit delicate to handle, but they came out as I had desired. This airplane was equipped with plywood flaps, so I cut the flaps out from the kit, lowered them, and applied plywood sheet decals I'd found on the net. Oh, in the event you were unaware, those white stripes on the bottom were applied in the field, and were not all exactly the same distance apart, and weren't all the exact same size, although the differences really wouldn't show up in 1/48th scale. Note the natural Metal lengthening plug. These airplanes were for point defense, and carried no external stores nor the racks for them. Note the bare metal patches on the rear canopy fairing where the sagging antenna cable wore away the paint. This model was built using Crandall's Vol. II on the Dora Focke Wulfs, which deals in depth with the Papagei birds. Hal Sr