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May 15 2008 |
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RDUCON 2008 is
happening Saturday, May 17 2008 in Raleigh NC.
Click here for further info
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Andrew Eaton
joins us with one of the coolest Ausuie schemes to grace a SeaKing.
This is Andrew's 1/72 Fujimi Westland Seaking Mk 50A
which Andrew
added extra scratchbuilt detail to juice up his Seaking.
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Kelly Green
is here
with his first article on ARC. This is Kelly's 1/48 Tamiya F4U-1D
finished in the markings for a famous Ace with
quite a few victories to his credit. Nicely done bent
wing bird Kelly and welcome to ARC!!!
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Bob Zorie
is here with 65
photos from the recent
Modelfest 2008 Titusville, Florida.
This looks like quite the show. Use
the slide show feature to view all the photos easier.
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Dalibor Repic
joins us
from Serbia with his great looking 1/72 Revell P-47D Thunderbolt
. in
Yugoslavian markings and a very attractive green and grey camo
scheme. I really enjoyed seeing this one.
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Ray Hemenway
has something a
bit different today. This is his
1/125 cut-away Revell U-47.
No doubt about Ray put quite a bit of effort into his U-Boat.
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I have a review of the new SB Decals 1/48 US Navy Seakings
High-Vis Part 1 decal sheet. This
sheet features 5 different High-Vis SeaKings including one SeaKing
that has Apollo recovery mission markings for 5 different Apollo
missions including Apollo 13.
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I have a review of the new 1/48
F-16 Test Vipers decal sheet
from Afterburner
Decals. This
new decal sheet includes markings for 8 different 1/48 F-16 Test
Vipers from the Air Warfare Center and the 85th Test & Evaluation
Squadron and the 422nd Test & Evaluation Squadron including 7
single seaters and 1 two seater.
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| Wednesday,
May 14
2008 |
Paraguay Independence Day
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Josh Kaiser
has done a
large amount of scratchbuilding on his 1/48 Revell B-17F.
Josh focused on the interior detail the most and even added whole
compartments to get his B-17 looking right. He then went the
extra step and added fine detail to improve upon this older and well
respected kit. Josh then finished his B-17 with Zotz
decals.
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Trevor
Murphy spent a
year creating his cut-away
F-104G Starfighter.
You've got to have a close look at this one.....Trevor has
outdone himself.....it's quite the site to behold.
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Rafi
Ben-Shahar is
here with one of my favourite late war designs. This is his 1/48 Dragon Horten Ho-229A-1
done up in Rafi's usual fine style with an impeccable
camo job.
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Charles Johnson
has been
busy getting things right on his 1/35 MRC UH1C Gunship & 1/32 Revell UH1D.
These are the Vietnam
War 174th
AHC Vietnam choppers that Charles built to be given away at a
reunion of these Vietnam War vet. Enjoy the photos.....the
sharks mouths do look great.
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| Tuesday,
May 13 2008 |
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Brian Waldorf
fires up
today's update with his 1/48 Revell F/A 18C.
Brain was focusing on his weathering techniques with this Hornet and
I must say I believe he's got things figured out very well.
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PJ
from Brazil is here with a special 1/48 Tamiya P-47D.
Brazilian pilots fought with the Allies in Europe during WW2 and
their story isn't told as often as it should be. This P-47 is
the aircraft on one Brizilian pilot. PJ tells the story behind
this aircraft as well as what he did to make it look so well.
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Terry Chan
has tackled
the 1/72 Amodel Sukhoi T-4 Sotka
with fantastic success.
Terry tells the history of this rare aircraft as well as the effort
involved in building this limited production kit with dubious fit
quality. I've gotta' admit Terry did quite the job on the
multi-shade bare metal finish.
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Bronson Bendicion
is one of the
younger modellers here on ARC and he joins us with his
1/48 Hasegawa BF-109E.
Nicely done Bronson.
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| Monday,
May 12 2008 |
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Serge
Dompierre begins
today with his nicely done
1/48
ICM MIG-3.
Serge built this little gem OOB in the markings of a MiG-3 that
fought in defense of Moscow in Oct 1941.
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Michael
Ezat has done a
stunning job on his
1/32
Trumpeter Me-262A-1a.
The painting and weathering has to be seen to be believed.....it
looks fantastic.......as well as the extra detailing.
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Chris
St Clair has
taken on the challenge and done an excellent job on his
1/72
Heritage Aviation Pilatus U-28A.
This resin kit did require some extra effort by Chris to get things
to fit, but Chris kept with it and ended up with a fine
looking model of this rare USAF plane.
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Scott
Vomacka is here
with his Scratch
built 1/48 U.S. Navy Tow bars.
Check this article out.....I think Scott is on to something
here......this sort of item would really add to a model on
display. Well done Scott.
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| Sunday,
May 11 2008 |
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Pierre Christian Baudru
has done an
exceptionally nice job building,
detailing his and finishing his 1/72 Revell Tornado IDS Marineflieger.
Pierre used an Aires detail set for the cockpit and finished
off his Tornado with a flawless weathering job.
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Josh Kaiser
has gone to
great lengths to detail and weathering his
1/48 Tamiya F4U-1C Conversion.
Josh put a huge amount of effort into his Corsair conversion and he
tells the whole story with photos in his article. Enjoy.
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| Saturday,
May 10 2008 |
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| For the next 30 days, customers who order from
The
Small Shop
banner link on the ARC homepage (or
click here)
can enter the promotion code ARC10 for 10% off your purchase
(10% off product amount only does not include shipping). |
| Unfortunately,
customers in the UK and EU are not eligible. They have an
agreement with Cammett Ltd. not to ship to those countries. |
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- Malaysian
modellers will be celebrating the 50th
Anniversary of the F-4 display
with a gathering of F-4 models today
May 10 2008. This gathering is the culmination of a 3 month plus
group build. This event will be held at City Square Center, 3rd
Floor Promotional Area (outside Hobby HQ), 182 Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala
Lumpur,
MALAYSIA
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Francisco A.
has done a
very fine job with his 1/72 Italeri UH-1F Huey.
Francisco built his Huey OOB and finished it off with a carefully
applied weathering job and displayed it on a very realistic diorama
base.
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Tim "Hornet Man" Miller
joins us
with his first article on ARC. This is Tim's 1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18B
in Aussie markings with sexy noseart. Tim built it mostly OOB
with some aftermarket decals to get the special markings he was
after. I'm very pleased to see Tim's Hornet on ARC and I look
forward to seeing more of his work on ARC in the future.
Welcome to ARC Tim!!!
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Friday,
May 9
2008 |
Liberation
Day for the Channel Islands May 9 1945 |
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Russia - End of Great Patriotic War 
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European Union - Europe Day
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Malta
gets Spitfires 64 Spitfires are ferried to Malta by USS Wasp |
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Rico "Forge" Maula
joins us with Part 8 of his
series on Edy Ong's 1/48 ROCAF Collection.
I've certainly enjoyed seeing Edy Ong's models and today's article
includes his 1/48 PB4Y-2 Privateer.
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TandHK
has done extensive work on this
1/72 Fujimi E-2C Hawkeye.
TandHK scratchbuilt the cockpit and the wingfolds. What a
beauty!!!
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Andrew Eaton
has done a
fantastic job building his 1/72 PJ Productions Gloster Meteor F8.
This is a resin kit with great looking markings and Andrew did it up
right....complete with a great looking display base.
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Petit James
joins us from France with his
1/48 Esci Mirage III EA.
James finished his Mirage # as a plane that served with the
Argentinean Air force during the Falklands War.
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| Thursday,
May 8
2008 |
Israel Independence Day
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V.E.
Day - Victory in Europe 1945 |
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Yoav Efrati
begins
today's special Israeli update with his
IAF
F-16 special feature.
Yoav includes seven on his flawless F-16's in his article....a feast
for the eyes.
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Rafi
Ben-Shahar is
here on the Israeli 60th Independence Day with his
1/48
Accurate Miniatures Grumman F3F-1.
Rafi has high regards for this little kit and his great looking
finished model shows he enjoyed the build.
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Ra'anan Weiss of
IsraDecal
is here on this special day with his selection of models of aircraft
flown by the
IAF
Orange Tail Squadron models.
All these models will be on permanent display in the Squadron
Display case. Well done Ra'anan |
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Chuang Xue Qian
has done an
outstanding job on his 1/48
Italeri F-15A 'Baz'. Xue Qian did
some scratchbuilding to improve the detail on his Italeri F-15 and
also added RBF tags to add that final look of realism to his
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I have a product
announcement of the new The
June 1967 Six-Day War book
from IsraDecal.
This book has 208 pages and over 300 photos looking into all aspects
of The Israeli pre-emptive strike of June 5,
1967.
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| Wednesday,
May 7 2008 |
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No update today.....I'm
feeling tired from digging in my backyard doing the landscaping and need
to get some rest.
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