Subject: Re: Special Hobby I-152
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bob Bartolacci" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 15:35:01 -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

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: Bob Bartolacci 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:19 AM
  Subject: Special Hobby I-152

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  1/48 Special Hobby I-152

  by Bob Bartolacci
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  After reading an article about the Polikarpov I-152 in SAMI, it interested me and I decided to build one in Finnish Service in WWII. The cockpit is resin & photo-etched metal and takes the usual test fitting and adjusting but does work out.

  I used invisible thread for the rigging, drilling holes in the wings and fuselage, pulling the thread through and holding it taut while the gap-filling superglue set with a drop of accelerator. A little black paint and it looks OK.

  I used Floquil paints left over in my stash from their old Military colors line from the DioSol days :-)

  The kit builds nicely and was a fun break from the more common aircraft I usually do.

  Click on images below to see larger images

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  Photos and text © by Bob Bartolacci

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  There are only great challenges
  that ordinary men are forced by
  circumstances to meet."
   
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