Subject: Re: AH-1G Cobra
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 11:53:10 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
ARC Air - Aircraft Resource Center
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  From: [email-masked] 
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  Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 7:32 AM
  Subject: AH-1G Cobra

  "1/32nd Revell AH-1G COBRA" 
  by "Angelo M Picardo"
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  This is Revell's old Huey Cobra kit. 
  It does show its age but it is basically a sound kit with some nice details.
  It has a mixture of raised and recessed panel lines with some neat riveting and panel fasteners
  I engraved the panel lines that needed doing, trying to preserve the rivet and fasteners. 
  I also added some after market parts.
  Cobra Company's excellent resin cockpit is a work of art, replacing the kits parts and including a lovely gun turret.
  To the turret I added a brass Gatling gun barrel and to show off the cockpit I replaced the kit's canopy with a vac formed one from Werner Wings.
  The cockpit set does not include replacement cyclic or collectives so I used a combination of up detailed kit parts and some bits from the spare box.
  Airscale decals were used to detail the instrument panels.

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  I used a combination of Humbrol enamels and Tamiya acrylics to paint the model.
  To weather the model I used techniques I usually employ on armour models, washes and filters, to impart a faded, weather worn look.
          
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  I intended to use the kit's decals but they broke up on contact with water, so at the last minute I got a set of decals from Fireball Model Works.
  I can recommend these decals, they are really top quality and include stencil data.
  Apparently the Helicopter I have modelled is famous for flying the longest mission for a Cobra during the Vietnam War.
  "Angelo M Picardo"
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  Photos and text © by "Angelo M Picardo"