Subject: Re: ARC Article B-24J
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Jaroslav Kral" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:44:13 -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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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jaroslav Kral 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:33 AM
  Subject: ARC Article B-24J

  Good morning Steve,

  How are you? I hope you are fine and going well. Please see my preparation of article abou B-24J. Thank you very much for submiting it. 

  I wish you nice rest of the week and nice weekend.

  Take a care

  Jaroslav

   

  "1/48 Monogram B-24J" 

  by "Jaroslav Král"
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  Ahoj,

  I hope you are going to enjoy this model. First of all I got this B-24 from my friend about 5 years ago. And why I built it now? I had no time because of school and Private Pilot Licence training. When I found a little time I built other models. Now I found the right time to build this bird. I was thinking about lights, but from my previous experience I wanted to solve battery position. I have 2 wires sticking out of my B-29, which you must admit that's not the best solution. I just only wanted a model without visible wire. 

  This is also chalange for all of you who wants to solve the same problem. I know that the bomb bay is not correctly opening, but this solved my problem. You can see my solution on two other photos. I used bomb racks as a base. Then I scratchbuilt battery holder with switch. This is fit on the left half of model. I used 12 volts remote control battery. Then I instaled all other lights. I have position lights on wing tips, tail fusalage anticolision light and one light in the cocpit. 

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  When I finished all the instalation the model was ready for painting. I built this model OOB so it was easy to paint. Aluminium fusalage with black de-ice boots. Weathering, decals and model was finished. It was my mistake that i did not investigate the internet precisly. I found the article where is described all other lights on B-24. There were blue formation lights ot the top of the fusalage, which were instaled as letter T. Then there were lights which signalise that bomb bay is opened and one red light when bombs were away. So many lights on B-24. Advice for all of you who wants to build model with realistic lights. Go and find informations how to do it and then build it. Anyway I´m happy with this one.  One good news. B-17G (1/48 Monogram) has been waiting for a long time so let's build it J. 

  Thank you very much STEVE for submition. 

  Jaroslav

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  Photos and text C by "Jaroslav Král"