Subject: Re: Scratch-built 1/72 Rocheville Arctic Tern
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Claudio Luchina" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:57:40 -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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Work like you don't need the money.
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Sing like nobody's listening.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Claudio Luchina 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 2:27 PM
  Subject: Scratch-built 1/72 Rocheville Arctic Tern

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  "Scratch-built 1/72 Rocheville Arctic Tern" 

  by "Gabriel Stern"
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  Beauty is sometimes a hidden quality that only needs just the right eyes to come out. 
  Motive, on the other hand, may remain forever arcane when you think about the rationales that supported the creation of certain flying things. 
  In any case, how can anybody resist the charm and flair of winged wonders like this one. 
  The more you enter into the strange lands of scratch-building, the less information is likely to easily appear. In this particular case there were no plans or three views, and just a very few images were available upon which you should muster enough building steam to arrive to a safe landing, which, be it said, wasn't the case with the real plane. 

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  The Arctic Tern was a special-purpose plane created in 1932 to provide a photo platform to survey remote Alaskan regions -like Wasilla-, intended to be used by Shell in its explorations. 
  As far as we know, it was really used to scare the pilot, passengers and bystanders, not to mention the occasional real arctic tern. 
  Besides the pilot, cruelly semi-exposed to the elements -and to bear the sight of the plane itself-, two enclosed positions were provided on top of the floats, with forward-leaping windscreens a la Fokker F.10. 
  The plane's original wing was donated by a Lockheed Sirius, the tail by a Vega, being the engine a Wasp of imprecise denomination. 
          
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  The design unavoidably evoques the Savoia Marchetti S.55 and specially the Bleriot 125, among various other beautiful nightmares. 
  The model at a glance: 
  Starting from the photos a drawing was sketched as a truly optimistic base for the ensuing construction. The floats came from a Sword Beech Staggerwing, which were slightly broadened with a sandwiched styrene sheet and later re-contoured. The front of the structures on top of the floats came from modified left over pants of the Matchbox Heyford. The engine, prop, main wheels and struts are from Aeroclub. Everything else was pretty much squeezed-out from the Fifth Dimension, including the Sculpey-made "upper" fuselage. 
  As a bonus track a photo sequence graphically describes the method used to scratch the "tail" wheels. 
  Man that I enjoy making these things. 
    
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