Subject: Re: Hasegawa Spitfire Article
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Rick Reinbott" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:28:27 -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: Rick Reinbott 
  To: steve bamford 
  Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 5:57 PM
  Subject: Hasegawa Spitfire Article

    Steve,
   
  Please use the picture with the '01 at the end as the best one and the one with '02' at the end as the second best one.  After that, it doesn't matter to me which order they're in.
   
  Please use thes e-mail address as the one for folks to correspond with me.
   
  Thanks!
   
  Rick Reinbott  

        1/72 Hasegawa Spifire Mk. 1

       
        by Rick Reinbott 

   

  This is my Hasegawa Spitfire Mk. 1.  

   I originally put this kit together back in 1980 and there it sat until June of 2008 when I FINALLY decided to upgrade it just a little.

  The 'upgrades' consisted of filling in the seams (caulk)and re-painting those areas, drilling out and drybrushing the exhaust stacks (flat black), adding light exhaust stains (dark gray), applying gun stains (black pastel chalk), light paint chipping (silver pencil) and an aerial wire (hair) applied with super glue and painted 'Steel'. A fellow modeler pointed out that the kits decals mistakenly portrayed the 'Kiwi' as sporting a white collar and that it should all be black instead so I dutifully brushed flat black over the white. I was informed that the paint over the seams probably wouldn't match the original brushed-on paint from 28 years ago and, as I expected, it didn't. However, paint was re-applied in the field which didn't always match the original color, so, I like to think that the areas I touched-up add a bit more 'realism' to the model, ha!

  The model represents the Spitfire flown by New Zealander Al Deere of No. 54 Squadron, RAF, during the Battle of Britain in 1940. 

  Happy Modeling! 
  Rick 
  References:

  Aerodata International Fighters of World War II, Squadron/Signal Publications (1980)

  The Supermarine Spitfire Part1: Merlin Powered, SAM Publications (2000)

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