Subject: Re: lifting bodies I
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "Patrick Hawkey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:48:41 -0700

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From: "Patrick Hawkey" <[email-masked]>
To: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:44 AM
Subject: lifting bodies I

> Hello Steve.  Here's a unique little project.  An unlikely 72nd scale
> formation of an M2-F2, X-24A and X-24B.  The X-24s are the Mach 2 kits
> while the M2-F2 is an Eagles Talon vacuform.  The gentleman that
> commissioned this display sent me the Eagles Talon X-24s as well and it
> was pretty obvious to me the Mach 2 kits were based directly on them.
> Sending the vacs was a good move as their decal sheets were much
> superior to the Mach 2 rendition.
>
> The base/stand was my own design and getting the three lifting bodies in
> the exact tight formation I wanted was a bit trickier that I thought it
> would be.
>
> The original plan was to have clear canopies and pilot figures in the
> aircraft, but the general fit of all three models was so bad that I
> ended up seeking the path of least resistance, and just blacked the
> clear areas out.  You get the idea.
>
> Pat

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