Subject: Re: Hi Steve, here is my second submission! many thanks for the kind words on my last black F-5E! there are many to come!
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "jacey guo" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:34:06 -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: jacey guo 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:37 PM
  Subject: Hi Steve, here is my second submission! many thanks for the kind words on my last black F-5E! there are many to come!

  1/48 Revell F-5E USMC VMFT-401  

  by Jacey Guo
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  Hi all, here is another one of my F-5E adversary tiger. This is my second submission to this fantastic site, feel free to have a look at my other Black F-5E jet. 

  This jet was made just a few years ago when I was back in college. 

  This one wears the beautiful desert/tan wrap around scheme which appears on both Marine and Navy jets. It is one of my favorite  schemes. 

  I had originally set out to make a Navy VFC-13 F-5E however I had a change of heart and decided to go with this marines' jet flying out of Yuma. 

  The entire jet is built out of the box and given the extreme lack of details in this kit's cockpit as well as the 2 rods which suppose to represent the complex F-5E canopy actuator, and also given the black box cockpit is extremely hard to get my hands on and currently going for over $70 , I've decided to go with the cockpit closed.  I must say given the beautiful lines on this jet whilst parked with the canopy opened, the focal point becomes the cockpit partly due to the long nose, the cockpit is almost in the middle of the plane, hence I personally think this jet is best displayed with its canopy open.

  Another disappointment with the cockpit is that the ejection seat is completely wrong, given my frustration at the entire cockpit, I decided to cover it all up with a coat of tint on the canopy ( I know F-5Es never had its canopy tinted).

  The model was airbrushed with Gunze Acrylics with a base coat of a mixture of tan and yellow, and the patterns were generated through masking with paper cutout attached to the model via Blu-tac (this provides me with the elevation needed for a more fluffy edge, this will do until I get a better airbrush!). 

  You can't see it on the photos clearly but I have attempted at mimicking the fading of the brown paint by airbrushing another lighter coat of the same brown over the pattern, this was the first time that I had tried to do this and I think with more practice it will be quite an effective technique.

  I weathered the plane lightly using very thinned black paint and a sponge (I don't recommend this method as the paint forms droplets which is not what you want, I need to work on my weathering techniques!), I lightly sanded the model to create more of a fading weather effect and it worked on some parts of the model, and again I don't recommend this to be done, it was more or an experiment.

  The more recent adversary jets are usually kept in very clean conditions (given most of them had just been given their new coats with in the last few years), however the ones in service from the late 70s to the 90s actually experienced substantial weathering and patches of replacement paint of similar but not identical colors are seen dotted on many adversary F-5Es and especially the older A-4s. 

  This model is again no where near the caliber of most of the other ones on this site, however I still hope you enjoy the many schemes on this wonderful bird.
  Stay tuned for alot more Adversary F-5Es coming yourway! Thanks!

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