Subject: Re: Submission Academy 1:32 F/A-18c
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Ronald Rozema" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:06:41 -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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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ronald Rozema 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:41 PM
  Subject: Submission Academy 1:32 F/A-18c

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  "1:32 F/A-18c VFA-131 Wildcats" 

  by "Ronald Rozema"
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  This is my Academy F/A-18c, bought from Luckymodel.com. The kit is almost straight out of the box except for the decals. I have chosen for these decals because this F-18 has flown on an exercise here in the Netherlands during the Fighter Weapon Instructor Training (FWIT) in 1996. With a lot of photo's which I had taken, I could make this model.

  The model is painted with airbrush using Vallejo Air colors. I used preshading but this went wrong when Vallejo is very tricky when it comes to lay a thin layer of paint. I therefore used postshading to make the plane a bit wheatered.  

  Decals are from CAM and where excellent. Very thin and good with MicroSOL. One mishap, for this kit although, of the decals from CAM are the collision lights, they where about 3-4mm too long and don't fit in the frames of the kit. Also the danger triangles are not present with the CAM decals. In the kit there are only the grey, toned down, versions. 

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  The kit was really fun to build and I would build one more of these. It's an expensive kit but is worth the money with it's outstanding detail and parts.

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  Greetings from the Netherlands, happy modelling.

  Ronald

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