Subject: Re: F-18 TOPGUN
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Peter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:25:15 -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: Peter 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 11:24 AM
  Subject: F-18 TOPGUN

  Gallery Template #04

  1/72 Hasegawa F/A-B HORNET 'TOPGUN' 

  by Jolly Jester
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  The May 1998 issue of "Combat Aircraft" had an article about the US Navy activating their Naval Strike and Air Warfare Centre at NAS Fallon, Nevada. One of the photographs showed a TOPGUN Hornet. Two years later, I found this Hasegawa kit in Perth, Western Australia. It took me another seven years before I found it at the back of my storage cupboard and built it. 

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  The model was built OOB with no special attention to weathering or detail. My aim was to test the use of FUTURE since in the past I only used a lacquer-based gloss coat. After reading various methods of applying FUTURE and testing them on a scrap model, I found a technique that provided the same gloss coat that I would achieve with lacquers. This was also my first model to be painted using an airbrush; namely, the HANSA 281. 

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