Subject: Re: 1/48 Super Etendard in RIAT paint sheme
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "angus" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 16:34:51 -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
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: angus 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:45 AM
  Subject: 1/48 Super Etendard in RIAT paint sheme

  Hi Steve, an unusual paint sheme I guess, that did make me suffer a lot

  Regards.

  Gallery Template #05

  "1/48th Super Etendard, RIAT 1997" 

  by "Laurent "Angus" Beauvais"
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  Since I saw some photos of this Super Etendard, I wanted to build one. This is the Heller/Airfix kit, it's nice, but with very few details, in particular in the canopy, and this is very visible.

  First thing to do on this kit, detail visible things: 

  ·         Arresting hook, that is often down and is too simple in the kit

  ·         Seat and canopy: all this is detailed with electrical wire, eraser, etc... all this things that do not cost a lot

  ·         Rear stabilizer has to be reviewed and why not positionned with an angle (wing stabilizer have to be horizontal with no pilot inside, there are controled electricaly)

  ·         Air intake, desesperately empty, has to be finned and its hole hidden with a cache that we often see on the ground

  ·         Lights are recreated thanks to colorized transparent plastic. You have to: replace the 2 triangular lights at the wing tip, also at the wing tip there are 2 white lights which shape is water drop like, and not round, 2 lights have to be added on the parachute cone (which is circular and not oblong), and a light is to be adde on the vertical stabilizer top

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  Now comes the most complicate, the paint sheme. I use mainly the "patafix technic", colors are a mix of  Japanese grey XF12 and grey XF19 for the light grey, and Humbrol 125 for the dark grey.

  Marking are hand painted when they did not exist ("hippocampe" (see horse ?) insigna on the right hand side of vertical stabilizer), painted in grey on the original decal or simply created with little decal tape as the FLOTTILE 11F texte.

  A more complete article (in French, sorry) will be issued on master194.com for those interested.

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   Photos and text © by "Laurent "Angus" Beauvais"