Subject: Re: Gallery submission from Konley Kelley
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Konley Kelley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:41:43 -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

Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

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  From: Konley Kelley 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Cc: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 4:01 PM
  Subject: Gallery submission from Konley Kelley

  "1:48 Tamiya Focke-Wulf Fw-190A & 1:48 Accurate Miniatures IL-2 Stormovik"

  by "Konley Kelley"
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  Here is my opportunity to add another "Aces in 1:48 Scale" to my collection of digital dioramas.

  My ace is Walter Nowotny. He is considered one of the most successful Fw-190 pilots of WW2. For much of the war, his hunting grounds were the skies over the Eastern Front. All but three of his 258 confirmed aerial victories were Soviet aircraft.

  In late 1944, Major Nowotny was selected to lead the first experimental Me-262 fighter unit. On November 6, 1944, Nowotny engaged his Me-262 against a flight of American bombers. His jet emerged from the clouds and dived vertically into the ground. He did not survive the crash.

  I chose to model my "digital diorama" after a fantastic painting by Iain Wyllie. I picked up the Stormovik on eBay and bought the Focke-Wulf at the annual Squadron Open House. 

  Assembly of the aircraft went fine. I found an old Spitfire pilot to double for a Russian pilot in the AM Stormovik. The fun part was weathering. Both aircraft are painted flat white (the undersides of the Fw-190 are light blue). I used a green and black pastel chalk to weather the Stormovik and did a lighter brushing of black chalk on the Fw-190 - except for the exhaust stains.

  I used a landscaping program and Photoshop to model a wintery Russian scene. There are even a few snowflakes in the air.

  Many Russian pilots met a similar fate under Nowotny's guns. Nowotny and the Fw-190 were a deadly combination.

  For more digital dioramas and "Aces in 1:48 Scale" see www.shortfuse3d.com.

  Click on images below to see larger images
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  Photos and text © by "Konley Kelley"

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