Subject: Re: Noratlas 50th Anniversary
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Steve C" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:07:28 -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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  From: Steve C 
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  Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 12:18 AM
  Subject: Noratlas 50th Anniversary

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  "Heller 1/72 Nord Noratlas - 50th Anniversary" 

  by Steve "Cloggy" Cladingboel
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  I used to watch Noratlas's fly slowly and high across the sky over my house when I were a kid, so when the opportunity arose to build one in special markings for the types 50th anniversary in 2006 I was enthusiastic. The Heller kit is everything you would expect - accurate in shape but lacking in detail and refinement of moulding. However, I built OOB apart, obviously, for the decals which are an Alps-printed set from Dipe Decals in France who provide the special scheme items which you then use in combination with the kit decals since the airframe is the same (105). The kit also has optional parts for an earlier Noratlas version with smaller fins and different cockpit glass layout.

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  As can be seen in the photos, I have had some difficulties with this build. A lot of filler has already been used and still there are obvious miss-fits. The main problems in fitting were: rear doors ro fuselage, fuselage halves, clear cockpit part to fuselage, booms to fuselage. Also awkward were the undercarriage legs. 

  Typically, despite a load of weight in the nose, it tail sits so I had to make a support for the rear from clear plastic - not really a problem. 

  The whole thing has been hand-painted with Xtracolor paints in a variety of metallic shades and Humbrol paints for the non-metallic colours. The Dipe-Decal decals go on really nicely and I was impressed by the satisfactory opaque white, the kit decals have too pale a shade of blue for the French national markings, and neither provided accurate propeller warning markings. This is not a beginners kit by any means, but it's a lovely old plane and I am reasonably happy with it.

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