Subject: Re: Post on March 25 update - HELLENIC INDEPENDENCE DAY
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Ladopoulos Yiannis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:45:50 -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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Work like you don't need the money.
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Sing like nobody's listening.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ladopoulos Yiannis 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:40 AM
  Subject: Post on March 25 update - HELLENIC INDEPENDENCE DAY

  Hellenic Air Force

  F-5B Freedom Fighter

  Revell (Esci) 1/72

  by Yiannis Ladopoulos
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  Well, this is another one from my Freedom Fighters, a two-seater in an F-16 style aegean ghost scheme.

  The model was brush painted with Humbrol enamels. Decals were purchased from various sources.

  Some additional work was done on the control surfaces which were slightly dropped (Esci gives the lowered slats and I dropped the flaps a little bit as well). Also the seats were heavily modified to represent a later type than the one this is provided in the kit.

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  On the real bird, the blue panels must have been "borrowed" from an "aegean blue" F-5A as well as the wingtip tanks which are taken from a three-tone gray NF-5A from those that were purchased second-hand from the Netherlands... Interesting case, don't you think? 

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  Hope you like it,

  Yiannis 

  Photos and text © by Yiannis Ladopoulos