Subject: Re: My Corsair (Sorry for the size)
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Jonathan B Polyakov" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:40:14 -0700

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com
 
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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: Jonathan B Polyakov 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:11 AM
  Subject: My Corsair (Sorry for the size)

   

  "Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1D Corsair" 

  by "Jonathan Polyakov"
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  Hi All .

  This is my almost first posting of a model on the web .This model depicts an aircraft from VF-84 aboard the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) , Feb 1945 .I built this model OOB using the kits decals that cooperated and conformed well .The only deviation i made was masking and painting the wallkways on the wings and flaps , getting a good matt finish .

  There are no stencils and wires on the model for the simple reason i hate to minngle with those things .The landing light lens i forgot about and noticed after the shots were taken .The Spit Instructions are part of my next project (oops).

  There's realy not much more to say about the Tamiya Corsair as it is known for its quality and was discussd extensively .The only problams i had was self created , realy (and trust me , if there is a possibility to get something wrong in a kit - i'll find it) .This said , i read somewhere that this kit is supposed to have the wings in the folded position and i must agree that it is an easier build that way (i use the word "easy" in a loose matter - its still a Tamiya kit) .

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  Now , i want to use this almost first post to thank a few good friends .

  Moty Palatshy - the man responsible for the pics here (was draged from his home after a day of hard work for this).Filippo Rossetti - who's "airbrushing rules of thumb" i use from the first time i airbrushed .Rob Radlein - you won't believe what he does with hand brushes .Shannon wham - who posted a pic of this plane (after waiting to see it for so long that he stped believing there is a corsair) on the "Dave Roof chalenge" (hence the almost first post) and by doing so made work on this post and not postponing it again and again and Danny Such - a great WWII and armor modeler , we build models together since we met , a long time ago .

  Also , i want to thank every one that helped me this passed 3 years , its a longer list than i can post here .

  I'll be on active reserve dutty by the time this will be part of the daily update and won't be able to access the site but i'll be happy to hear what you think - and thats why my E-mail is for .

  Jonathan 

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  Photos and text © 2003 by Jonathan Polyakov , Pics by Moty Palatshy .