Subject: Re: post on August 17 update
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Ali Akbar Yulianto" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:43:20 -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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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ali Akbar Yulianto 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 2:31 AM
  Subject: post on August 17 update

  Gallery Template #05

  "1/48 Italeri TNI AU F-5E Tiger II" 

  by Ali A. Yulianto
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  Hi all, Greetings from Indonesia!! After browsing this web site for quite some time, finally I can submit my first entry to ARC to commemorate Indonesia Independence Day on August 17th. But before that, I would like congratulate Steve for this great aircraft scale model site. 

  I choose to model TNI AU F-5E Tiger II from Skadron 14 that based on Iswahyudi AFB in Java. This kit was based on Italeri 1/48 F-5E Tiger kit which have been around for quite some time. The fit was not too precise, especially in the front section below the cockpit. I had a step there that still showed after a lot of sanding and filling. I also decided not to attach the spare tank because after test fitting this also showed a bad fit. 

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  I built this kit mostly OOB. I added the pilot figure from Hasegawa kit mainly to cover up the sparse detail in the cockpit (decal panel actually). This is also my first try in creating my first custom decal. I have the Iswahyudi lightning picture for the tail fin from a fellow modeler, Pak Andreas, and print it out using color laser printer. The numbers were from spare decals from other kits while I used the kit decals for the aircraft stencils.

  I re-scribed the panel lines as the kit have raised ones, but I think I made them too deep as the panel lines become too prominent. Well, another lesson learned for my next project.

  The paint job was mainly done free-hand with some after touches using blu-tac for rougher edges. The colors were custom mix from Tamiya and Gunze Acrylics, matched with my eyeball Mk.1 to the actual photo. The actual plane actually have different shades and hues, so it's difficult to have the correct color. Different lightning in the reference photo could also showed different color for one same aircraft, so there's no right or wrong here, as long as it's blue and gray. 

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  Thank you all for viewing my kit.

   

   

  Kind Regards

  Ali Akbar Yulianto

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