Wednesday,
Feb 28 2007 |
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Josip ˇagar gets
things started today with his 1/72 Academy F-84G Thunderjet.
Josip chose the brightly trimmed bare metal finish of the Yugoslav
airforce as the markings for his very nice looking Thunderjet.
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Pablo Calcaterra is
here with an outstanding 1/48 Battle Axe Marcel Bloch 174.
But the real beauty is also in the articles that tells
the story of Antoine de Saint
Exupery
who you might recall is the French writer pilot whose WW2 P-38 was
recently discovered of the South of France in the Sea.
Pablo has the full story behind this aircraft type and Antoine
de Saint Exupery.
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Freddy Pedrique is
here with one of the best looking camo schemes I've seen on
F-16's. This is his 1/48 Italeri F-16B
complete with special amrkings and weathering on
a most impressive display base.
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Calum Gibson has
built his 1/48 Tamiya Brewster Buffalo out
of the box with excellent results. The markings are for a New
Zealand Buffalo with Dragon artwork down the side of the fiuselage.....you can't get much better than that.
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Tuesday,
Feb 27 2007 |
Dominican Republic Independence Day |
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Thanos Mentzelopoulos has done an outstanding
job detailing and weathering his 1/32 Hasegawa Fw-190.
Thanos detailed the engine and giun compartment on his super
detailed 190. Lovely job Thanos.
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Shalom Hen
is here from Israel and he's been busy building his
Sabres for Israel.
I enjoyed seeing a Sabre done up in Israeli markings......it still
amazes me the variety of aircraft Israel has flown.
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Renato "NIGHTRIDER Torin Jr.
joins us with
his very attractive 1/144 Hasegawa NAMC YS 11.
This particular airliner was used in Brazil. Renato paid special
attention to the small details to get everything looking just right.
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Phil Vorvis has done an impressive job finishing his 1/48 Hasegawa CF-18 Hornet.
Phi; added a resin cockpit and extra scratchbuilding and
detailing to improve the detail on this very nice kit. He then
finished it off in Canadian markings with weathering.
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Monday,
Feb 26 2007 |
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Alvis 3.1 gets
things fired up today with one of his models that wasn't finished in
time for Silly Weeks 2007. This is his
1/48 SMD-5 "What-if"
complete with every option possible for an
aircraft.
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Mark McClellan is
here with his 1/48 Hasegawa A6M5 Zero.
The part that will strike you as interesting about Mark's Zero model
is the fact it's painted in Australian markings. Mark has the
whole story behind this and how it almost happened.
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Julian Schüngel joins
us with his 1/32 Revell EC-135 T1
Heeresflieger.
Julian finished his EC-135 in Germany Army markings and he tells a bit
about the history of the EC-135 in Germany.
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Juraj Dzur has done an outstanding
job detailing and weathering his 1/72 Hasegawa F/A-18C Hornet.
Juraj added quite a few aftermarket detail items to his Hornet and
finished it off in flawless weathering.
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Tory Mucaro has done an outstanding
job building and finishing his 1/72 Matchbox PBJ-1H ‘Miss-Carriage’.
Tory achieved the perfect balance in his weathering and displayed his
model in an in-flight mode.
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Sunday,
Feb 25 2007 |
Kuwait National Day |
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Chris Parsons has
gone way above and beyond to create his
1/48 Hobby Craft Canada DHC-3
Otter. He added a handmade resin nose
for the Turbe prop engine, a quilted headliner in the cabin and so
much more........it's quite the project to create a turbo Otter.
Well done Chris.
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Dan McWilliams has
completed the 1/48 Classic Airframes CF-5A.
I tip my hat to Dan for not only completeing this kit but for turning
out a fine example of the CF-5A. Darn fine job
Dan.
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Saturday,
Feb 24 2007 |
Estonia National
Day |
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André Bruinsma begins
today with his 1/32 Academy F-16-CG.
André built
his F-16 out of the box with one heck of a nicely done weathering job.
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Phill Loughlin is
here with his first model on ARC. This is his 1/72 Airfix Spitfire Mk Vb
that Phill added scratchbuilt detail to. Good looking Spitfire
Phill.....welcome to ARC!!!
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Friday,
Feb 23 2007 |
Brunei National Day |
Guyana National Day |
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No
update today.
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Thursday,
Feb 22 2007 |
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Steven Richardson joins
us with his first model on ARC and also the first model he has ever
built. This is his
1/48 Revell F-16 Block 5
finished off in Danish markings.
Well done Steven and welcome to ARC!!!
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Phil Adams joins
us with his motorized 1/72 Italeri RAAF CH-47A Chinook.
It's quite impressive how Phil pulled this twin rotor project together
without having shattered blades flying around the room. Phil
finished his Chinook in RAAF markings.
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Robert T. Rio stopped by the
Philippine's ARC Corporate offices
with his 1/48 Revell(Germany) F-5A Freedom Fighter.
Robert used his scratchbuilding skills to improve the details before
he finished his F-5 in
Philippine's markings. Nice one Robert.
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Alan Sannazzaro joins
us with his 1/72 Academy B-29A Superfortress.
Alan added extra details and finished his B-29 in a multi-shade bare
metal finish. A very effective job on this big bomber.
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Vance Lester has
dropped by today with his 1/48 Hasegawa F6F-3 Hellcat.
Vance built his Hellcat out of the box with some weathering to finish
off his dirty US Navy fighter. Good to see Paul.
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Wednesday,
Feb 21 2007 |
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Armin Knes
begins today with
part 2 of his 1/48 Suchoi Su-34 Platypus
article. Today Armin shows you how the
final model turned out......Armin has every right to be VERY proud
of how his Su-34 turned out.
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Ray Yeo (Seiya) has
done a stellar job on his 1/700 Tamiya Enterprise.
Ray shows what can be done with some effort. I also liked how
Ray did the water.....simple and effective.
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Kostas Zervas
joins us
from Greece with his 1/72 Airfix Draken.
Kostas finished off his Draken in the always eye cathcing tripple
crown blue and yellow Swedish markings. Nice Draken Kostas.
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Shawn Phantom Weiler
has stopped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his 1/48 Monogram F-18A.
Shawn has built his F-18 more or less out of the box with the
exception of some minor mods and decals from Twobobs.
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Tolga Ulgur has
dropped by today from Istanbul
with another of his beauties.
This is his
1/32 Trumpeter P-40 B Tomahawk.
Tolga paid special attention to some of the shirt comings of this kit
and replaced the cockpit with one from
Cutting
Edge . He also used other detail
items to get his P-40 looking just right.
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Tuesday,
Feb 20 2007 |
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Armin Knes
gets things
started today with his
1/48 Suchoi Su-34 Part 1.
You MUST check out the work Armin did on his Su-34
project......including scratchbuilding part of the fuselage.
Unbelievable patience.
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Mirko Meier has done an outstanding
job building and finishing his1/48 Pro Modeler Ta-154.
Mirko added extra details such as an aftermarket detail set.
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Josip ˇagar
joins us from Slovenia with his excellent 1/72 Academy Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver.
Josip goes into very good detail about building his
Helldiver. I love the weathering and paint chipping.
Welcome to ARC Josip!!!
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Andrew
joins
us after his 8 year modeling break with his
1/48 Revell/Monogram F-89C Scorpion.
It looks like Andrew has goten back into the hobby running......his
F-89 has had some very fine detailling added to it. Well done
Andrew.
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Monday,
Feb 19 2007 |
USA
Presidents Day |
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Tony Hayes of the
IPMS Hamilton Chapter is proud to announce the Heritage Modelcon Model
Contest and display coming up this Sunday Feb 25 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
from 9am to 4pm For more info go to
http://secure.warplane.com/Planetalk/Model_Event.html or
e-mail Tony Hayes at khayes7@cogeco.ca
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Phil Vorvis is
here with his first article on ARC with his
1/48 Hasegawa F-4 EJ Phantom
II.
Phil finished his Phantom in the attractive Japanese Kai, 8 Sqn
markings. With careful weathering.
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Theodore Tan
is here
with photos of his super detailed 1/35 Academy SH-60B SeaHawk.
Theodore added plenty of scratchbuilt and aftewrmarket details and
then once things were looking very good he had a huge disaster with
his Seahawk. He recovered from that and completed the
model. Read his article for the full story.
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Sertac Bayar
joins us
from Turkey with his nicely done 1/32 Revell F-104G.
Sertac added extra details to his Starfighter and finished it in
Turkish markings.
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Tamįs Skriba
is here
with his 1/72 Hasegawa MiG-29 Fulcrum.
Tamįs was keen to make his MiG-29 more accurate and he added some
aftermarket
items and modoified his model and finished it in Hungarian
markings.
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Jeff Angus
has dropped by
with his 1/72 Academy A6M5c Zero.
Jeff did an exceptional paint chipping job on his Zero.
Read his article to find out hoiw he did it.
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Sunday,
Feb 18 2007 |
Lunar
New Year - Spring Festival |
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Frontpenny, Wen Jin Xu
is here
from China with a first artcile on ARC. This is a very good
looking 1/72 Revell Mig-21-F13.
This particular Mig-21 is the first prototype of
Mig-21-F13 in Chinese version for the
Chinese
People’s Liberation Army Air Force. Welcome to ARC!!!
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David Chong
is here with photos of a 1/72 Airshow.
This is a MASSIVE project and features many many aircraft built by a
large number of modellers. Job well done everyone!!!
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Oishi is
here with a stunning
1/32
Tamiya F-4E. The detail painting on
the instrument panels and elsewhere on this Phantom needs to be given
a close look. Very nice indeed.
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Li Weiguang
is here
with a beautifully done 1/48 Academy P-47D.
The bare metal finish and weathering is excellent
looking......love the checker board nose.
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Paolo Yuen
is here with his award winning 1/48
Hasegawa F-14A Tomcat. Paolo used a
variety of aftermarket detail sets to improve on the kits details and
then gave it a first class weathering job.
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Louis
Chang is
here with part 1 of his 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat
article. Louis
added his usual scratchbuilt details to get his Wildcat looking as
nice as his other models.
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Charles Leung
joins us from Hong Kong with his very shape looking
1/48 AMTech/Tamiya Ta-183.
Charles explains the whole build process in his article plus some
history behind the Ta-183.
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Kin Wong joins
us for the first time with a model on ARC. This is Kin's 1/144 Minicraft B-29 Enola Gay.
Kin rescribed the panel lines and added 4 electric motors to spin the
propellers. A beautifully done multi-shade bare metal finish
completed Kin's B-29. Welcome to ARC Kin!!!
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Saturday,
Feb 17 2007 |
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Friday,
Feb 16 2007 |
Lithuania National Day |
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Meteor
Productions
Proudly Presents Applying
Bare Metal Finishes.
This will be an online
seminar....or a
webinar....but you must register to tbe able to view it. Space
is limited so sign up now. You must have a high speed
connection. Click
here or
click the image to get all the details. I'd like to tip my hat
to Dave at Meteor Productions for doing this.....it sounds like a
great idea.
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Gil Gregg (aka "dutycat")
kicks off
today's update with his 1/72 Monogram F-105G.
Gil used aftermarket decals on this older Monogram kit and
finished it off in that classic SEA camo scheme. Very nice
indeed Gil.
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Lorenzo Schiapparelli
has been very busy super detailing his
1/48 F4 U-1D Corsair
for his first submission to ARC.
There is a fine selection of resin sets in this Corsair plus
quite a few hours of careful craftsmanship. Welcome to ARC
Lorenzo!!!
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Luc
Borlé
is here
with his 1/72 Tamiya Aichi M6A1-K Nanzan.
This is a special flight test aircraft.....but Luc tells the whole
story of this great looking aircraft in his article.
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Oliver Weston
is here with his colourful
The Three Little Migs
in 1/72.
Seeing Oliver's 3 MiGs reminds me of the terrific variety possible
when building MiG-15's. Way to go Oliver.
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Thursday,
Feb 15 2007 |
Serbia National Day |
Fall of Singapore (1942) |
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I have a message from
ARC'er Tony Hayes. IPMS
Hamilton has their model contest coming up on Feb 25 and they will be
collecting kits and suppllies for the troops in Kandahar. They have made the
decission to hold a Kits For Kandahar drive at the contest and will
run it until the end of March. Their goal will be to fill a cargo
container with kits and supplies. The club is even getting a TV spot
on their local station on the 23rd and will be promoting it there
to as well as modeling and the contest. Details will be on the website
soon. The museum is behind them 100% on this and the club is very excited
about this. Here is the museum's
addy......
Kits for Kandahar
c/o Canadian Warplane Heritage
9280 Airport Road
Mount Hope, Ontario
Canada
L0R 1W0
Any help would be greatly appretiated
Thanks again
Tony Hayes
President.
IMPS Hamailton
Canadian Warplane Heritage Chapter
http://secure.warplane.com/Planetalk/Model_Event.html
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Martin Filipović
is here with his
first article on ARC today. This is his 1/72 Italeri AH-1W Super Cobra.
Martin improved the kit detail witha bit of scratchbuilding
and finished it off with a classic cobra camo scheme adna well
done weapons load. Welcome to ARC Martin!!!
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Shawn Phantom Weiler
joins us
with his 1/48 Hobbycraft CT-142.
Shawn REALLY hates this Hobbycraft kit as you'll read in his
article.....quite an amusing read.
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Wednesday,
Feb 14 2007 |
Valentines
day |
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Benny
Attar starts this
special Israeli update with his report from the recent
Israel
IPMS 2006 Annual Show.
Benny includes photos of a variety of models in the show.
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Ra'anan Weiss joins
us with his 1/48 Hasegawa F-16I Sufa.
Ra'anan added
a few resin sets including one of his own sets from IsraCast.
Ra'anan
knows his
stuff when it comes to modeling and you see that in his F-16.
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Yoav Efrati
is here with his
report and photos from the recent
Israel
IPMS 2006 Annual Show.
There was quite the selection of models including an Israeli C-130
tanker in a in-flight diorama.
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Laurent "Angus" Beauvais
has returned from
his trip to the recent IPMS Israėl annual contest.
Judging by his article it seems he had quite the fun time and met more
than a few people from ARC.
Israel in winter looks like the place to be.
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Robert T. Rio dropped
by the ARC Corporate offices in the Philippines with his 1/48 Hobbycraft Israeli A4h
'Ayit'.
Robert's A-4 is the result of a rebuild of his previously built A-4
and the results this time round were very good.
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Shalom Hen is
here with some
Jet Model Aircraft photos from the recent IPMS Israel Annual Convention 2006.
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Ho Tuck Leh joins
us with his first article on ARC. This is his 1/48 Hasegawa
A4-N IDF Skyhawk.
This beauty is built out of the box and finished in Israeli
markings. Sharp looking A4 Tuck....welcome to ARC!!!
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Monday,
Feb 12 2007 |
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Douglas K. L. Chan
starts your week with
part 1 of his 2 part article about building his
his 1/32 Academy F/A-18C Hornet Converted to CF-188.
Wow Douglas did quite the job creating his CF-188. Dougles
used a resin cockpit and seamless intakes to improve his CF-188
model. Part 2
will run tomorrow.
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Scott Vomacka
has persistantly
stuck with and completed his
1/72 AMT/ERTL YB-49.
Scott finished his flying wing
in Bare Metal Foil, but not before he put
quite a bit of effort into finishing his model. The finished
model looks well worth his efforts.
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Tom Di Maggio
had one heack of
a challenging time building his 1/48 Academy MIG 29 UB.
Of course the kit ebing badly warped from an unknown heat source by
the previous owner didn't help. Read all about the
"fun" Scott had in his article. I give him an
"A+" for persistance.
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Louis Chang
has been
busy detailing and finishing his 1/48 Tamiya P-51D.
This model has a resin cockpit, resin landing gear bays and
Cutting
Edge P-51D decals as well as some excellent weathering and a
bare metal finish that is spot on.
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Stephen Cann
is here
with the first of what I hope will be many articles on ARC.
This is his 1/48 Testagawa F-16 Falcon
that he experiemnted with many techniques
learned from ARC. His finished F-16 came out looking very well
done indeed.
My thanks go to Stephen for sending it in and to all the ARC'ers
that help out by sending articles explaining their
techniques.....this has helped many modellers just like Stephen.
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JM joins
us with his 1/48 Revell Spitfire Mk IIa
in Douglas Bader's markings.
This particular Spitfire model involved quite a few "firsts"
for JM and judging by how well the spitfire turned out.....I'm
guessing JM has things figured out pretty well.
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Sunday,
Feb 11 2007
Iran Anniversary of Victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran
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Juanjo Dominguez
has done a
first class job on his 1/72 Hasegawa Harrier Gr.3.
Juanjo scratchbuilt a new cockpit and added careful weahtering to
the very well done paint job. The markings are for a Harrier
in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict
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Luc Borlé
has
displayed plenty of talent and patience building his 6 engined
1/72 Messerschmitt Me-323 D1 Gigant.
This aircraft really was the heavy lift aircraft used by Germany
during WW@ and it's size can really challenge a modeller, but Luc met
that challenge and went on to complete an excellent looking model of
this huge piston powered aircraft.
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Saturday,
Feb 10 2007 |
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Nick England
has been busy building
and rigging his
1/72 Revell Sopwith F-1 Camel.
Nick is now an addicted bi-plane builder......which is a good
thing.
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Eugene Trapezontas
joins us
from sunny Greece with my favourite aircraft. This is his
1/48 Italeri (Dragon) Me-262a1.
Eugene did some minor detailing and has the perfect solution for the
rubber tires on this kit. The eye grabbing paint scheme with
it's yellow highlights and light paint chipping looks the part of a
battle hardened jet.
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Friday,
Feb 9 2007 |
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Giovanni Gasparotto
starts your Friday update with
two of his tiny 1/288 Scratch-built F-104G's.
You'll get a kick out of reading how Giovanni made these.....it
sounds so easy.
Well done Giovanni.
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Tory Mucaro
is here
with his Willie Augerin’s Aerobatics School
diorama.
You first had a glimpse of this diorama during Silly Week 2007
and today Tory is back with the full story and more photos of this
well done and amusing little scene.
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Paul Ryle
is here with his
first article on ARC today. This is his 1/72 Italeri Rafale B - 21st Century Tiger.
Tiger meet schemes are a favourite of mine and Paul built this Tiger
Jet up mostly out of the box. Nice one Paul....Welcome to
ARC!!!
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Jesse Owens
has been persistent
and finished his 1/32 ARII A6M5c Zero
in fine style. This isn't the best
fitting kit, but Jesse persisted and ended up with a fine looking
Zero.
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Josh Silver
with a fine
looking 1/48 Revell F-14A to B.
Josh wasn't overly impressed with this model kit but he persisted
and did extra scratchbuilding and more to get his Tomcat looking the
way he wanted.
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Mike Glidden
with a very well done article about
building a Home Made Spray Booth.
You'll find this spray booth to be quite a good design that will
move a huge quantity of air.
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Thursday,
Feb 8 2007 |
I've added a link to
Frog Penguin.
This site is dedicated to world's oldest range of all plastic model kits,
produced during the period 1936-1949. Quite an interesting site full
of info related to these model kits. http://www.frogpenguin.com
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Shawn Phantom Weiler
starts
today with his 1/48 Hasegawa CF-18 Hornet.
This model was in pretty rough shape when Shawn got it, but he took
it to new heights with the aftermarket decals and patience.
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(Servo) Michael Riesner
is here
with his 1/48 Academy P-47N Thunderbolt.
This is his second model on ARC and I loved how it turned out with a
flawless bare metal finish complete with aftermarket decals and gun
smoke stains on the wings. And of course this classic American
beauty is complete with noseart.
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Dean Large
has been very busy detailing and finishing his 1/32 Revell Hawker Hunter.
Dean added 270 individual decals, white metal landing gear and photo
etch detail parts to turn out the usual high quality model we all
enjoy seeing from Dean. You'll get a kick out of his FOD
covers in his story.
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Louis Chang
is here with his
1/48 Tamiya Bf-109E3.
Louis did the usual extra detailing to his model and gave it a
classic camo scheme.
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Lyle Brown
is here with his pencil drawing artwork he calls
Tornado Departure.
Amazing talent you have there Lyle....keep it up.
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Wednesday,
Feb 7 2007 |
Grenada --
Independence Day |
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No update today
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Tuesday,
Feb 6 2007 |
New
Zealand -- Waitangi Day |
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Colin WhiteHouse
begins Waitangi
Day 2007 with his 1/48
Classic Airframes RNZAF Vampire FB5.
Colin built this gem in a hotel room (how's that for devotion to
the hobby) and finished it off in RNZAF markings.
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Alan Sannazzaro
joins us
from New Zealand on Waitangi
Day 2007 with his 1/48 Hasegawa Typhoon 1B.
This attractive Typhoon is finished in the eternally attractive
D-Day markings.
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Brian Waldorf
has done a stellar job on his 1/720 Revell USS Enterprise.
Brian scratch built a huge number of items....(over 200) for his
carrier and then added plenty of aftermarket goodies. WOW!!!
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Gil Gregg (aka "Dutycat") has an
interesting "what-if" article to go with his 1/72 Trumpeter F-107B UltraSabre.
It's a darn fine model in it's camo scheme and a very fascinating
article.
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David Vanderhoof
is here
with some CF-5A
walkaround photos. Thanks David.
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Monday,
Feb 5 2007 |
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Nancy Samson
joins us from France with her first article on ARC. This is her
1/35 Italeri UH 60 L Blackhawk
complete with photo etch detail that brings the
interior alive on her model. You have to have a close look at
this one. Beatuiful. Welcome to ARC Nancy.
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John Green has
stopped by with his 1/72 Airfix Jaguar GR1.
This is the older Airfix kit from the '70's and John finished it up
in fine style.
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Zafer Yilmaz
is here with a shape looking 1/48 Academy P-47D
complete with eye grabbing nose art.
Zafer added an Eduard Zoom set and finsihed it
off with the kit decals.
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Shawn Phantom Weiler
is here
with his nicely done 1/48 Hasegawa Tomcat
F-14B.
This
particulr F-14 uses aftermarket decals and resin intake
covers.
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Sunday,
Feb 4 2007 |
Sri Lanka Independence Day |
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Nick England
is here
with a beautifully done 1/48 Airfix Bf-109F.
Nick had quite the disaster when he weathered it, but he recovered
with the help of fellow ARC'ers and turned out one very sweet 109.
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Saturday, Feb
3 2007 |
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Oxiel Carrizo
(Necsac) begins your Saturday
update with his 1/48 Monogram A-10 A Thunderbolt II.
This is one of the older Monogram kits and Oxiel took it to
excellent levels of detail with some aftermarket goodies and good
old fashion modeling skills.
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Laurent “Angus” Beauvais
is here with
some more images of his Virtual 1/24 scale Dewoitine D520.
Seeing these photos makes me think building plastic model kits
is much easier.
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Friday,
Feb 2 2007 F-16 Viper 33rd Anniversary Feb 2 2007 |
Reminder.
The Exposition of I.P.M.S Moorsele (Belgium) is tomorrow,
Saturday. This is an expo of all modelling, airplanes, tanks,
figurines, cars, boats......and many more. It starts on 3
februari 2007 at O.C DE NEERBEEK (Bissegem) Belgium. Click on
poster to the left for contact information.
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Reminder.
The Milton Keynes
show is this Sunday, 4th Feb. Go
to here for more info
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Alex
Sidharta kicks off today with his VERY
special article called Viper Vorever.
Alex article marks the 33rd Anniversary of the F-16
Viper.....long may she fly. Alex includes a fantastic variety
of models....20 models in all from a variety of Air Forces.
This was part of a display by the The
Indonesian Scale Model Society. Well done guys!!!
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Pete Hudson (Dr Fester)
is here with
his entry in the ARC
Floatplane/Seaplane group build
taking place between Dec
06 and May 07.
This is his 1/48 Tamiya Swordfish
which he added extra detail (if that is even possible on this kit) and
displayed it on a diorama base that is beyond perfection.
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Vince Lucente is
here with one of my favourite model kits. This is his
1/48 Monogram Grumman Lunar Module.
Wow I still remember watching the Eagle land on the moon.....that
feels like a few lifetimes ago....
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Eugene Trapezontas has
been busy building and finishing his 1/48 Hasegawa Bf-109 K4.
Eugene added some extra details and a good choice of markings to
complete his 109.
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Thursday,
Feb 1 2007 |
3
year Anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbia accident |
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George Ting
is here to remember the Space
Shuttle Columbia with his 1/144 Airfix shuttle Columbia-landing diorama.
It's been 4 years since we were all shocked to see Columbia
break-up on re-entry. It was a sad day for us all.
The crew included Rick D. Husband, William
C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla
(India/USA), Laurel Blair Salton Clark and Ilan Ramon
(Israel).
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This day 3 of the
special 3 day update marking the anniversary of the start of the Tet
Offensive. The countries involved in the offensive were Republic
of Viet Nam, United States of America, Republic of Korea, New Zealand and
Australia fighting on the side of South Vietnam. The combatants
fighting for the North Vietnam side of this conflict were the National
Front for the Liberation of South Viet Nam and the (Viet Cong) Democratic
Republic of Viet Nam.
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Tracy Saulino gets
things started today on her birthday with her 1/35 Scale Trumpeter SA-2 and Launcher.
This special model is the kick start to what I hope will be a
very good modeling year for Tracy. Great looking missile
Tracy....Happy
Birthday!!!
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Huy Tran
is here
with his 1/48 ESCI Morane M.S.502 Criquet.
This is a French aircraft in French markings, but it strongly
reminds me of the birddog used by the USAF in Vietnam at a later
date.
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Björn Dol
stopped by with his
1/72 Academy OV-10A Bronco.
Björn added reckets, gun pods and bombs and finished his Bronco
in markings from at
Danang in 1969
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Triet Cam
is here with his 1/72 Hasegawa A-1H Skyraider.
Triet
finished his Skyraider in South Vietnamese Air Force
markings. This model received extra work and detailing by Triet
to get the details correct and more accurate.
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Pete Brown
stopped by
with his 1/32 Revell UH-1H Slick.
Pete's diorama shows a slick hovering a few feet above the ground
and the troops disembark for a mission. Pete explains how he
built this excellent diorama in his article.
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Triet Cam
joins us with his 1/72 Revell of Germany F-5B Freedom Fighter.
This model is finished in Republic of South Vietnam
markings that were kindly created by well known Internet modeler Roger
Jackson. A
very sharp looking model.
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Huy Tran joins
us with his 1/48(?)
Heller Alouette III.
This helicopter was used by the South Vietnamese
VNAF forces in Indochina. Neat looking model.
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Steven "Flush" Tollett
has been very busy building, detailing
and finishing his 1/32 Revell F-4E.
Steven smartly used
a “G”
string from a guitar for the oxygen hoses
and special
thanks goes to Colin Ritchie for helping out on this model.
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Huy Tran finishes
up today's update with his 1/100(?) Heller Nord 2501 Noratlas.
This mid 50's cargo plane has vertical clam shell cargo door on the
rear of the fuselage and is finished in French markings.
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