Subject: Re: new submission from Italy
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "PSV - Franco Giacon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 16:22:59 -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: PSV - Franco Giacon 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:16 AM
  Subject: new submission from Italy

  Hallo Steve , annexed you can find the pictures, sorry for the English and thanks in advance

  1/72 unknown ME262 

  by Franco Giacon (Italy) 
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  This is my first submission to ARC, sorry for the English and for the really common model!

  I bought this kit some weeks ago in Ebay for only 2 euro : originally it was sold together with a magazine about 30 years ago ,and it was packed in a simply nylon bag, without any indication about  the producer. I suppose it's Airfix or Revell but.... The quality of the kit was simply awful : no particulars, no cockpit, no landing gear vane, anything but 16 pieces of a terrible plastic material...with the cockpit glass broken in 5 parts!!  But I like very much to try to transform this old kits in something that can appear a plane !! First of all I scratchbuilt the cabin pavement and the landing gear vanes with a thin copper foil. After, utilizing an aluminum foil and some pieces of electrical wire, I built the pilot seat ant the safety belts. The cloche is a section of a copper wire, the cockpit is made drilling a policarbonate pieces and filling the holes with Cristal Clear .

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  After the mounting of the fuselage and about 2 tons. of putty to fix the wings, I tried to build the glass, utilizing the original one like a "stamp" to obtain the new. So I re-composed the "puzzle" and, after a good sanding, I fixed the glass  with thermo glue on a really solid steel nail . Utilizing an electric warmer, I made a thin policarbonate sheet really soft and immediatly I pressed over the original glass. Well, the result is not 100% OK but enough. I had really fun to built this toy, I hope you enjoy , also if not perfect ( I'm not so experienced in modeling) .Next model will be a terrible Heller G91 Gina !!

  Ah, I painted with Humbrol colours,varnished with Future and weathered with oil colours mixed to white petrol.

  Greetings from Italy

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