Subject: Re: AH-1F Post on Jan 17
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Austin Kennedy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:09:00 -0800

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

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: Austin Kennedy 
  To: Steve Bamford ARC 
  Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 7:04 AM
  Subject: Re: AH-1F Post on Jan 17

  Hey,

  I'm reattaching the pictures.

  Take care,
  Austin

  On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Steve Bamford ARC <[email-masked]> wrote:

    Hi Austin,
    No pics arrived with your AH-1 article.  can you send me the pics at    [email-masked] 
    Thanks!!!

    Steve Bamford
    ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
    http://www.arcair.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: Austin Kennedy 
      To: [email-masked] 
      Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:34 PM
      Subject: AH-1F Post on Jan 17

      1/72 Hasegawa AH-1F
      by Austin Kennedy

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      I built the Hasegawa AH-1F for the Second Desert Storm Group Build in the forums. It represents the AH-1F in N Troop, 2nd Aviation Bde, 2nd ACR, serial number 68-17082, also known as "Wild Thing".  I built it mainly out of the box with little modification.  I added a chaff/flare dispenser to the tail that I had casted during my one of my previous builds.  I also modified the TOW missile launcher.

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      I painted the model using MM acryl Army/Marine Gulf Sand for the lighter color and Tamiya's Desert Yellow.  I gloss coated the model with krylon's acrylic gloss coat, applied the decals from Werner Wings (which are top notch, by the way) and applied another gloss coat.  The nice thing about the actual helicopter, 'Wild Thing', and other helicopters that were painted sand during ODS was their lack of stencils.  That really helps out if you don't like decaling.

      I put more emphasis on my weathering this model more than others, as I wanted to test out how Vallejo Acrylics worked.  I thinned them with water and did a little section at a time, and I really like the way it turned out.

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      Another thing that I did differently was the ALQ-144.  I took Echelon's M-113 pink vision blocks, cut them to size, and added them to the squares on the ALQ-144 to recreate the reflective properties.

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