Subject: Re: 1-48 Testors (Hawk) Travel Air Mystery Ship
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:38:34 -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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  Subject: 1-48 Testors (Hawk) Travel Air Mystery Ship

  "1-48 Testors (Hawk) Travel Air Mystery Ship" 

  by "René Zass"
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        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here  

  The moulds for this kit date back to the 6os, so not too much detail can be expected. However the engine is quite good - it is in fact the best engine of all Testor airracer kits. And it is the one radial engine which can be seen hardest after finishing the kit...

  I scratchbuild a cockpit (I had no reference so I had a guess - not much can be seen through the small cockpit opening anyway) and added a vacuformed windshield. 

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  A rigging with fishing line added additional detail. I use the following easy and quick method for rigging:

  I drilled small holes into wings, fuselage and wherever the rigging was to be installed. I started the rigging from the inside of the fuselage with a long piece of fishingline - the end which will stay in the fuselage got a knot, so it will fix itself at the drilled hole. A drop of superglue secured it additionally. Now I guided the line through all other holes (wing, landing gear) and back inside the fuselage (I left the engine off until the rigging was finished so I could access the fuselage for fixing the rigging through the front). I attached a small weight to this end of the fishing line to pull it tight and added a drop of superglue to all holes. This is now at least a year ago and the rigging is still tight.

  The red paint is from a Revell spraycan and needs several days to dry - I can hardly recommend Revell spraycans but they are easy to get here in Germany. The gloss black colour is also from Revell and was simply brushed on, because I was too lazy to mask all the lines for airbrushing. The Revell gloss black is quiet easy to paint with a brush as this colour too takes rather long to dry.

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