Subject: Re: 1/72 Avro504n for posting on Thai national day 1/3
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Chokchai" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:28:58 -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: Chokchai 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 8:15 AM
  Subject: 1/72 Avro504n for posting on Thai national day 1/3

  Please post my article on 5th December or 10th December.,

  Thank you very much

  1/72  RTAF  Avro504n

  by Chokchai u. 

  Thailand national day 5 December 2013
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        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here 

  Sawaddee krab,

  This is my tiny biplan Avro504n , the real plane was served in royal Thai air force from 1929 until the end of world war two. Kit built mainly from Airfix Avro504k kit with forward parts was chopped off and replaced by HR resin model. Both kits have pros and cons so I decided to kit batch them and scratch built some details in cockpit and entire under carriage and tail skid as I was not satisfy with parts from both kits. I also thrown resin kit's engine away and used modified resin radial engine in my stock instead for better result.  

  Colour of this trainer is still arguing. The vintage pictures shown light tone colour which could ,presumably, be yellow or doped linen but I decided to paint it yellow as my personal preference. Forward part behind the engine and top of fuselage was black. I tried to use various shade of dark grey to differentiate area of painted aluminium cowling and fabric surface. 

          

        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg here 

  Decal was from Siam scale as usual for Thai subject. They produced fine quality decal and cover full range of airplane and AFV in Thai service. Final step , which was the most challenging , was the rigging. I used stretched sprue , cut to length then glued by canopy glue for r/c plane. The result was quite acceptable but I still wanted to have improvement next time I build another biplane. 

  This was enjoyable project but I would go for another subject for quite a while before return to biplane again. 

  Happy modeling for you all.

  Photos and text © by Chokchai U.