Subject: Re: corsair tamiya
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "manuel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:46:15 -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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  From: manuel 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 1:04 PM
  Subject: corsair tamiya

  "1/72 Tamiya f4u-1a corsair ira kepford"

  part 1 

  by "Manuel Negri"
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  Ira "ike" kepford:

  Ira "Ike" Kepford from Harbor Springs, Michigan and formerly of Muskegon, Michigan was one of the top naval fighter aces during World War II and was hailed as a local hero in the years following the war. On Saturday, October 7, he was enshrined into the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame.Kepford family moved to Muskegon, Michigan shortly after Ike was born. He was an outstanding scholar and athlete at Muskegon Sr. High School. He was a blocking back on the championship football teams and became captain of the State Championship 1937 team and elected to the All-State Team. He went on to Northwestern University where he repeated academic and athletic performance. He captained the 1939-41 teams that won national ranking. Kepford was credited with 16 confirmed and proven air-to-air combat victories. He scored his victories in six engagements between November 11, 1943 and February 19, 1944 and was a member of the elite VF-17 "Jolly Rogers" squadron flying F4U-1A Corsair fighters. This squadron produced more aces than any other fighter squadron in World War II-Kepford was the highest scoring of these aces. He enlisted in the U. S. Navel Reserve on August 18, 1941 and received his flight training at Naval Air Stations in Corpus Christi, Texas and Miami, Florida. He graduated at the top of his class. He was assigned to VF-17 in December 1942. In his lifetime, Kepford was awarded the following: Navy Cross, Gold Star in lieu of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Ribbon for the Navy Unit Commendation VF-17, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal.

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  Models:

  The model is the kit Tamiya in 1/72 and is absolutely perfect, the Parties match well, the cockpit is a model in the model only the seat seems a little off scale. The engine just add the wire candles and is already very beautiful.

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  Assembling:

  The assembling flows fast and is very pleasant, is part as usual with the cockpit is colored interior green while the consol side I know in matt black aged with' as an artist with earth Tones.

  On consol and instrument panel shall with a dry brush in grey and adds some touch of colour taking care to look at some pictures of true aircraft. The fuselage inside the cockpit is colored in interior green as the inside of profile engine and the wells of trucks. This is done you highlight details with drybrush  and washes in color oil. fall in the cockpit and engine wells of trucks and you can close the fuselage. Now assembling the plans of tail and Wings is filled the few imperfections and extends a first-hand of gray primer to highlight and eliminate errors. At this point we are ready for the painting of the model.

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  In the second part of this article I will explain the painting, I hope that my advice can be of help to some pattern maker.

   

   

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