Subject: Re: ARC submissions:Me-262B-1a by Frontpenny from China
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "wenjinxu" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:18 -0700

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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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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: wenjinxu 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:36 PM
  Subject: ARC submissions:Me-262B-1a by Frontpenny from China 

    
  Intech 1/72 Me-262B-1a 

  by Frontpenny Wenjin Xu
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  No one would deny the fame born by Me-262 as the first combat jet fighter in WWII. That motivated me to bulid a kit of this. 

  There might be lots of choices to build a single-seated Me-262 in the market, however, that might not be the case where you decide to bulid a twin-seated version in 72nd scale, so far as I know, only Revell/Hasegawa have released twin-seater version neither of which is available in my place. 

  I happened to get a twin-seated Me-262B-1a from a local hobby dealer who normally has lots of stuff imported from east Europe.  The kit was made by Intech, a Polish company. The overal shape of the kit was OK to me, the main drawback was that it has raise panel-lines and its detail in the landing gear bay is just normal. 

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  Building this kit, first of all, all panel-lines were changed to recess ones, the antena offered was replaced with brass stick.

          
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  Conclusion: the Intech kit was good but might not be suitable for the beginner, I am looking forward to the kit of this subject released by Trumpeter in the right future.

  Enjoy it and I can be reached at [email-masked]

  Frontpenny 

  Photos and text © by Frontpenny Wenjin Xu