Subject: Re: Silly Week Submission
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "NICK WALTON" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:22:12 -0800

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.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: NICK WALTON 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:56 PM
  Subject: Silly Week Submission

    
  Revell 1/72 Red Arrows Hunter 

  by Nick Walton
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  I built this model in one day while on vacation in England in 2006.  Every time we visit England (my birthplace) my wife spends a day shopping with my aunt.  I decided to build a model on this 'day off', so I picked up a Revell Hunter since I knew this was an easy kit to build with just a few tools.  

  I also picked up a Revell/Italeri Red Arrows Hawk with the intention of bringing it home, but as I looked at the Hunter I wondered how the Reds decals would fit.  Amazingly well, it turned out!  

  So the Red Arrows of the late 70s gained a slightly more impressive machine than the diminutive Hawk.

  I built this using a hobby knife, superglue, the Revell glue that came with the kit, the Revell brush, a roll of tape, a 4-way nail file/polisher a can of Tamiya gloss red, a can of Tamiya silver, three pots of Revell acrylic, and a bottle of Johnsons Kleer (Future).  With carefull sanding and dry-fitting it went together with no filler whatsoever.  The gloss finish is entirely from the Tamiya paint, with Future only being used to get the decals to settle nicely with a gloss fiinish.

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  Photos and text © by Nick Walton