Subject: Re:
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Paul" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:24:33 -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: Paul 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 2:05 PM

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  1/32 Wedell-Williams Racer

  by Paul R. Miles "Huey Gunner"

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  I built this kit as a gift for my 72 year old step-father. When he was boy, his father owned and ran a Gilmore gas station. Or as they called them back then, "fillin' station. He collects Gilmore memorabilia, so I figured this would fit into his collection.

  The kit is the Williams Brothers offering. As a limited run kit it has no guide pins for parts alignment. The moldings are a little thick but nothing that really affects the finished product.

  The only non kit part are the shoulder harness', that I dug out of my spares bin, and the push rod tubes that are cut plastic rod. The propeller blades are covered with bare metal foil. The finish accomplished with MM enamels. Then two coats of Future, decals and six more coats of Future. Rigging was done with the provided kit line.

  A very special thanks need to go out to Steve Tytko of Schenectady, New York. Steve built this kit that turned out to be a feature article in the April 2007 edition of FSM. It was from this article that I got my inspiration from. As noted in the issue, there are no decals provided for the cowling.  And what decals there are in the kit are very poor. Steve made his own and they came out beautiful. I e-mailed Mark Hembree at FSM to see if I could somehow get in contact with Steve to purchase the decal set. Three days later, Steve himself called me from New York, to my home in So. Cal. He not only made a set just for me, but refused payment, even for shipping. All this in the weeks before Christmas, you know, when most people are just normally too busy and slammed with deadlines. So, once again. Thank you so much for your help with Norm's gift. He was very moved by it.

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  Photos and text © by Paul R. Miles