Subject: Re: Hasegawa 1/48 A-4 E/F
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Jason & Jennifer Wolfe" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 16:45:51 -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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  From: Jason & Jennifer Wolfe 
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  Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:40 PM
  Subject: Hasegawa 1/48 A-4 E/F

  Gallery Template #04

  1/48 Hasegawa A-4E/F 

  by Jason Wolfe
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  The A-4 Skyhawk proved a great success as a light bomber over North Vietnam for both the Navy and USMC. This Hasegawa model represents BU# 155010 from VA-55, the "Warhorses" aboard the USS Hancock during the 1968 WestPac cruise. VA-55 served on the Hancock from July 1968 to October 1975 on six different WestPac cruises. For some great photos, see http://www.skyhawk.org/3e/va55/va55p.htm.

  I built this model for my dad, a white-shirt "troubleshooter" who worked on the flight deck of the Hancock on two WestPac cruises to the Tonkin Gulf from 1970-1972. He repaired avionics on A-4s and F-8s and recalls the long days of intense combat in Spring 1972 where planes from the Hancock were dropping 900 to 1,000 500-lb bombs per day over North Vietnam.

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  I highly recommend the 1/48 Hasegawa version of the A-4E/F! The detail in the rivet lines and landing-gear plumbing is incredible. Hopefully I've captured that in my photographs. The pieces fit together like a charm. One note: don't spend too much time detailing the cockpit panel, since it's completely hidden beneath the instrument cover. You'll have to shine a flashlight on it to see it.

  Everything is out of the box except the decals, which are from Superscale. 

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  Photos and text © by Jason Wolfe