Subject: Re: Gallery Submission-SpitfireXVIe
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "gmcd" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:58:38 -0800

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com
----- Original Message -----
From: gmcd <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:14 PM
Subject: Gallery Submission-SpitfireXVIe

> Hi Steve:  please find attached a Gallery submission for the ARC website.
> The attached 7 .jpg scans are at 200dpi and were sized to a width of 640
> pixels.
>
> The text that goes with this is as follows:
>
> This is the 1/72 scale Hasegawa Mk. VIII kit converted to an LFXVIe.  The
> Heller Mk.XVIe kit donated the rear fuselage deck and wing tips, while the
> canopy was a vacuformed Squadron piece.  The "e" wing was converted by
> repositioning the 20mm cannons, removing and replacing the cannon blisters
> on the upper wings and cutting new shell ejection ports on the underside
of
> the wing.  The cockpit was fabricated from a Cooper Details cast resin
parts
> kit.  The decals were from an older "Tally-Ho" brand decal sheet with the
> necessary markings for a 443 Squadron (RCAF) machine that was based at
> Utersen, Germany in late 1945.  The stencilling was obtained from an Arrow
> Graphics sheet labelled as "Spitfire Scribbles".  Paint was XtraColour,
> overcoated with a blend of Testor's Dullcote/Glosscote.  Weathering was
> applied with chalk pastels applied with a cotton swab.
>
> Cheers, Geoff McDonell    [email-masked]
>