Subject: Re: MiG-21PFM submission (my email is [email-masked] because my outlookl isnt working and my friend Laurent had to send it here!)
From: <[email-masked]>
To: "Aleksi Saarelainen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:37:52 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Aleksi Saarelainen 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:04 AM
  Subject: MiG-21PFM submission (my email is [email-masked] because my outlookl isnt working and my friend Laurent had to send it here!)

  Zvezda 1/72 MiG-21PFM 

  by Aleksi Saarelainen
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  Hi, my name is Aleksi. Im 13 years old and im writing from Finland.

  This is my first submission to ARC. 

  This is my 3rd completed model, the Zvezda 1/72 MiG-21PFM

  I bought this kit while i was in Russia, actually i have bought about 30 kits there!

  It was an attractive kit, compele with AWESOME boxart. MiG-21PFM blasting off the runway with RATO's.
  It was on my shelf in Finland for about 3 months. After completing my MiG-21F-13 i decided that i've would build ANOTHER Fishbed. It's addictive, building MiG-21's......

  Fit was good, exeptions were in the cockpit tub, where i had to cut some of the sidepanels in order to get the tub fit there, i think no detail was lost. Anyway, you cant really see there. And 2nd exeption was the gun pod on the belly, it was pretty hard to get it there without making it go left 5 degrees!

  Decals included 1 unknown Soviet bird, and 1 Vietnamese bird. They were thin and fragile, small part of my red star was lost while placing it on the model. 

  I used spraycans for painting, 3 thin layers is enough.... Normally i paint by a brush, but bare metal is an exeption.

  Weathering was done by using Tamiya's weathering master set B. Recommended to everyone!

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  Details were good.

  Nosecone was hugely oversized, so much actually, that it didnt fit even there! So here goes the same old story, sanding...... to look.... saandinggg..... done.... boom.... An-22 flies over......... I know i could have sanded some more, but it looks just ok even now.

  Overall, this wasnt really the best of my modelling skills, i know i could have done something always better.... I should focus on the details on my next model. I hope it will be better than this one...

  You can find me by name Su-34 on the ARC forums.

  Thank you Steve, for creating this great site!

  Next stop: Revell 1/48 Ka-50

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  Photos and text © by Aleksi Saarelainen

  Article sent by Laurent Stern (Hey, thanks man!)