Subject: Re: review/gallery thing
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:18:54 -0800

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From: "Peter Marshall" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:10 AM
Subject: review/gallery thing

> Dear Steve
>
> Don't know if you can use this, but your sort of Gallery set up suits
> the sort of write up I've got time for at the moment.  Hope you like it
> (there are a couple of spare pics if you feel like dropping a
> few/sticking them in), hope they aren't too big.....
>
> TIA
>
> Gallery Template #12
>
> "1/48th Scale Me-262 Mistel"
>
>                                                          by "Peter
> Marshall"
>
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>                                                Steve Bamford will insert
> full sized version of photo 01.jpg here
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> This is a couple of Dragon (well, OK, the bottom one is a Revell re-pop
> of the Dragon kit) Me-262s and a resin support trolley from Antares (Kit
> number ANT-03 from http://www.antaresmodels.com, extremely helpful chap
> called Marcelo).  I saw a drawing of this setup in the Classic
> Publications "Mistel" book (GREAT book) and was hooked, but I would
> never have done it if it hadn't been for the kit of the trolley.  The
> two kits are built essentially out of the box (hey, the Dragon stuff was
> never short of detail), the major work being dropping the slats and
> flaps as I'm assured that (the slats at least) ALWAYS did that when on
> the ground (see Steve Brauning's excellent site for info on how to build
> the Me-262 http://www.geocities.com/stephen.mark/ME262-How-to.htm ) and
> filling the cockpit area on the lower (bomb) aircraft.  The paints were
> all from the Xtracolor range and markings came from Superscale sheet
> 48-781 for the lower a/c and Aeromaster 48-336 for the upper.
>
>                                                           Click on
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>              Steve Bamford will insert a click-able
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>                                                              Steve
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> Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller
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> The trolley is a pretty simple build and Marcelo's instructions are nice
> and clear.  And as it's a paper project I felt quite happy doing my own
> thing if I felt like it :-) so I did deviate occasionally from the
> support structure laid out ("Yeah, it's the Mark3 version from '47
> incorporating mods introduced from operational experience").
>
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> The wings are pretty floppy when you cut most of them away!  Steve has
> lots of suggestions on his site as to the best way to go about dealing
> with this, I found the floppiness quite helpful, you can position stuff
> where you want it quite easily and adjust the fit to suit.  In
> theory....
>
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>                                                              Steve
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> Based on the theory that the lower a/c would be a well used/damaged
> airframe I painted a few areas to represent bits from different a/c, the
> port tailplane, rudder, port inboard slat, that kind of thing, and
> painted over the unit markings (which was painful, I have to say, nice
> Superscale decals) and put a wave of Brunviolett over the bright "new"
> areas (cockpit plug and bomb nose, just to tone them down a bit, and
> hopefully tie in with the colours used by KG(J)54.
>
> All in all an interesting build, that Mistel book really got me going.
> I bought it for info on the Fw190/Ju88G-10 I was intending to do and now
> I've ended up with this, the 48 Special Models kits for the Mistel 5/6
> and Fw190/Ta154 Mistel and I'm thinking about others!  It's a dangerous
> hobby!  Anyway, hope you like it!
>
>
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