Subject: Re: Silly Week Submission, USS Yorktown CV 5
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Max Tollens" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:41:43 -0800

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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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Love like you've never been hurt.
Work like you don't need the money.
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Sing like nobody's listening.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Max Tollens 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 8:31 AM
  Subject: Silly Week Submission, USS Yorktown CV 5

  Revell USS Yorktown

  By Max Tollens Jr.
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        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here

  This kit is just too big to get into a photo properly, at least for me; I believe this scales out at around 1/480 or so. 

  I received this as a Christmas gift from my in-laws a few years ago and finally decided to build it late this year.  It wasn't as big as the box led me to believe but it is still a long model, about 18-19" long.  There isn't much in the way of detail but since I'm not a ship modeler I just built it out of the box.  It's a change of pace from aircraft projects and it didn't turn out too bad.  I found an internet resource for the 1942 paint scheme called Measure 12; I gathered the appropriate paints from the Model Master line and one from Tamiya and painted it accordingly. The stand's raised details were painted with a silver Sharpie and Tamiya Gold acrylic paint, oversprayed with Dullcote then weathered with watercolors to add detail to the aviator wings.  Happy New Year, fellow plastic surgeons!

        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg here

  Photos and text © 2008 by Max Tollens Jr.