Wednesday,
May 31 2006 |
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Shawn "Phantom" Weiler
is here with part
2 of his CVW-8
article. Shawn includes another great
variety of models in his article. Shawn definitely know how to
properly weather USN aircraft.
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Luc Harvey
joins us with his 1/72 Eastern Express Mig-21UM.
Luc built his fine looking MiG out of the box and created some of
the markings himself and displayed his jet on a very nice looking
base.
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Erik Wauters
is here with his 1/72 Academy P-40E Warhawk.
Erik did an excellent job building his P-40 and finished it with
carefully applied weathering.
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Tuesday,
May 30 2006 |
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I
have a 1 month update on my Injured
Arm, things are getting better. I hope to be back to
work at my job in one more month.
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Shawn
"Phantom" Weiler joins
us with his CVW-8
Part 1, 1977.
This is a multi-part article that I'm sure you'll enjoy.
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Steve
Negley has
done a great job building his 1/32
Hasegawa P-51D Mustang.
Steve added details to make his Mustang more accurate and
improve the detail. Marking were a combination of
painted and custom made by Mike
Grant Decals.
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Yvan
Vansteenkiste has
done a beautiful job building his 1/32
Academy F18C Hornet.
Yvan did a perfect job on his F-18 and finished it off with
markings
from Twobobs.
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Bill
Lachance is
here with his lovely 1/48
Eduard Fokker D. VII.
Bill has a talent for turning any kit into a gem...and this
little bi-plane is another example of Bill's skill.
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Monday,
May 29 2006
Memorial Day |
- No reviews
today out of respect for Memorial Day in the US.
- The folks at
I.P.M.S. group
XXI Mar del Plata in
Argentina are having their annual
model show and contest . It will be June 2, 3
and 4 in the Hotel Tierra del Fuego, Mar del Plata. More
info can be found at www.ipmsmardelplata.com.ar
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Goran
Kovacic is
here from Croatia to start
your week with his 1/72
Revell P-47D.
Goran did some very impressive post shading to his P-47 along
with some other techniques. Read his article for the
full details.
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Gianni
Cassi joins
us with his beautifully done 1/48
Trumpeter Mig-15 bis.
This is a Korean war MiG flown by a WW2 veteran Soviet
pilot. I got quite a bit of pleasure seeing the paint
scheme on this one. Gianni finished it off with decals
from
Cutting
Edge Modelworks.
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Louis
Chang has
been busy building and detailing his 1/48
Revell F-105D.
Louis rescribed the panel lines and then did a very involved
weathering and chipping job on his F-105 and finished it off
with decals from
Cutting
Edge Modelworks.
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No
updates this weekend. I'm tending to some behind the
scenes work on ARC.
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Friday,
May 26
2006
Georgia National Day |
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Goran
Kovacic starts your Friday
update with his carefully built 1/72
Revell Fokker DVII.
Goran finished his Fokker with some painted markings for
Hermann Göring.
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Tom
Milne joins
us with his beautiful looking 1/48
Airfix Mosquito B Mk XVI.
Tom goes into very good detail in his article about
building his Airfix Mossie and you'll find his article to be a
big help when you build one of these.
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Calum
Gibson has
been busy getting the details right on his 1/48
Airfix Blackburn Buccaneer S2B.
Calum used a resin cockpit and finished his Bucc with
outstanding weathering and markings Operation Granby.
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Ercan
Karakas joins us with his 1/48
Tamiya F4U Corsair.
Ercan finished his sharp looking Corsair in New Zealand
markings.
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Thursday,
May 25 2006 Argentina National Day |
Jordan Independence Day |
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Pablo
Calcaterra
is here on Argentina's National Day with his special article
on his 1/48
Skyhawk A-4B C-214.
Pablo tells to story of the Argentine pilots during the
Falklands/Malvinas War.
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Luc
Borlé is
here with his very well done
1/72
Academy Republic P-47D.
Although this is 1/72....Luc painted the checkerboard pattern
by hand......amazing.
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Ercan
Karakas has been
busy building a very sharp looking 1/48
Tamiya Mig 15 Bis.
Erkans finished his bare metal MiG in Chinese markings with a
careful amount of weathering as well as photo etch seatbelts
and engine wiring.
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Anthony
Manzoli stopped
by the Australian ARC Corporate offices with his1/32
Hasegawa Bf 109G-6.
Anthony built his 109 mostly out of the box with the exception
of some cockpit photo etch. then added his skillfully
applied weathering using a variety of methods (that he
mentions in his article).
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Wednesday,
May 24 2006 Eritrea
Independence Day |
I'm pleased to announce the
new VF-Decals/MAW
Decals Forum on the ARC Manufacturers Forums. The owners of VF-Decals/MAW
Decals and will be there to answer all your questions about
their decals.
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Kit
Leung has
dropped by today with his 1/72 Innex MiG-21PFM.
Kit did a wonderful bare metal finish complete with Polish markings.
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Vladimír Žucha
is
here with his 1/48 Hobbycraft F8F-1 Bearcat.
Vladmir used photos etch and careful skill to finish his Bearcat
in South Vietnamese air force markings. Check out the panel
line chipping on his Bearcat.....very nice.
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Christian Page
joins us from
Belgium with his great
looking 1/72 Hasegawa F-104 and 1/72 ESCI F-104.
Christian
has finished his Starfighters in 2 different paint schemes to give
you a feeling for the variety of countries to use this jet.
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Matt Robeson
joins us today with his 1/32 Tamiya A6M5 Zero.
Matt is 15 years old and seems to have this hobby figured out as
you'll see by his beautiful Zero model.
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Lyle Brown
once again graces ARC with his
artwork. This is his Artwork of WW2 Poster
that he carefully created from a vintage
museum poster. I really get a kit out of seeing Lyles work and I've
included a link to his website so you can enjoy more of his artwork
at www.lyleart2000.com.
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Tuesday,
May 23 2006 |
The
ARC forums are repaired....they
are at a temporary URL.....until I can get the proper domain name shifted
to the other ARC server in the next few days. It's been a very long
week for us all....and I include the readership in that statement.
I've been on a steep learning curve this week and plan to be much better
prepared the next time this happens.
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Pablo Angel Herrera
begin today with
his nicely done 1/72 Hasegawa A-1H Skyraider.
Pablo finished his Skyraider in the attractive SEA camo
scheme.
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Mark Barnes
is here with his first article on ARC today. This is his
1/48 Hasegawa A4-C
finished in an attractive scheme.
I'm glad Mark has joined us on the home page and I look forward to
seeing more of his work on ARC. Welcome to ARC Mark!!!
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Maxime Pidara
has been busy
building one of my favourite ground attack aircraft from WW2.
This is his 1/72 Academy Typhoon
complete with a ground target....both are excellently
done..
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Monday,
May 22 2006
Yemen National Day |
No update today.....I'm
putting in as many hours as I can to get the forums sorted out.
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Sunday,
May 21 2006
Chile Navy Anniversary |
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Paul Hayes
starts today with
his great looking
1/48 Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate.
Paul explains the very easy and effective paint chipping technique
he used.
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Paul
(KonaMonkey) Goretti
is here with his
first article on ARC. This is his
nicely finished
1/72 Revell F16c Block 50/52.
Welcome to ARC Paul!!!
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Saturday,
May 20 2006
Cuba
Independence Day |
Spirit of
St. Louis flight |
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Forum repairs are
progressing. I'm attempting to get a clean copy of the forums from
my hosting company from before the virus hit.
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Michael Stanley
is here
with his 1/48 Spirit of St. Louis
to make the anniversary of the first solo
transatlantic flight. The engine cowling finish is very
difficult to do on this aircraft, but Michael pulled it
off.
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Edgar
Murillo has
been busy building one of the Tomcats from the Tomgun movie.
This is his 1/48
Revell/Monogram F-14A complete with custom
markings.
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Friday,
May 19 2006 |
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Turkish
Remembrance of Ataturk |
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and Youth Day for Turkey |
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Vladimír Žucha
has dropped by with his 1/48 Revell Dassault Rafale M.
Vladimír fixed the wing issue on his Rafale and finished it off
with weathering.
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Scott Gruszynski
has done a stunning job on his
1/48 Hobbycraft Dornier Do-17Z.
Scott did quite a bit of extra work on his Do-17 as you see in
his article.
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Tamer Ozkan
joins us
with his good looking 1/48 Ford Flivver.
Neat looking little plane.
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Thursday,
May 18 2006 |
US Armed Forces Appreciation Day |
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Jan
Manninen has
been busy adding details to his very sharp looking 1/72
Hasegawa Sukhoi Su-27.
The detail and weather is very impressive....especially
considering this is 1/72 scale.
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Chris
Churchman dropped
by the ARC Corporate offices with his 1/48
Hasegawa F-15C.
Chris built his Eagle almost out of the box with the addition
of a resin ejection seat. A very fine end result.
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Wednesday,
May 17 2006
Norway
Constitution Day |
ARC
Forums are still offline. Still no response from the Invision
Tech people regarding repairing the Forums.
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Mr.
Terje Opsahl
starts this special update with his article featuring Norwegian
Aircraft. The models
are by Nils H.
Gran, Nils
Mathisrud,
Kyrre
Ingebrethsen,
Tormod
Sørvang, Ragnar
Eckhoff,
Jens Håkon
Brandal
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Angus McDonald
is here with his resin 1/72 CMR Avro York.
The fact this is a resin kit didn't prevent Angus from turning
out a very finely done model.
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Note from Vince Maddux of
VMDecals
We here at VMDecals have some
good and bad news today.
First off, we would like to announce
that the link for the P-3C decals is open. You can now pre-order
the decals by simply following this link http://www.vmdecals.com/p3c.html Everything
you need to know is there. This sheet is currently being printed
by Fantasy Printshop.
Now the bad news, I had a major
computer crash this week although I got my computer running again,
I LOST EVERYTHING! If I was doing artwork for you please let
me know so I can make any refund arrangements. I had drawings for
about 150 different decal sheets in different stages of
completions.
Although this is a grave
loss, I still
have some of the older decals backed up and I can restart from
there.
Thanks
Vince
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Tuesday,
May 16 2006 |
Dambusters Raid RAF bombing of Ruhr Valley Dams |
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I've hired Invision to move
the ARC Forums to a new server. At this point I am unsure if the
database is intact.
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ARC Forum can be found ---->
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Nissim Tzukduian
has put quite a bit of
effort
detailing his beautifully done 1/48 Hasegawa F-4E
and getting the details correct.
He finished his F-4 in Israeli markings.
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Matija Lisec
has put quite a bit of
effort super
detailing his 1/48 Dragon Fw-190 A-8.
This model wasn't the quickest and easiest build as you'll read in
the article.....but the finished model was worth the effort.
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Oxiel Carrizo
(Necsac) has been busy
adding details to his very sharp looking 1/48 Monogram Mirage
2000.
Oxiel then finished his Mirage in French Air Force Gulf War markings
from 1991.
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Ted Taylor
has dropped by
the ARC UK corporate offices with his photos from the
Milton Keynes Model show 2006.
This is Part 1 and Ted will be back tomorrow with Part2.
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Monday,
May 15 2006 No update
today. I'm busy working on repairing the ARC Forums. |
I've
just pulled the ARC Forums offline until I can effectively remove
the trojan Virus that has infected the ARC#2 server. The
ARC #1 server that holds the website is NOT affected by this
virus as it is a completely different server. Sorry for this
huge problem. Steve
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Sunday,
May 14 2006
Paraguay
Independence Day |
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Darrell Thompson
has been busy building
and detailing his 1/72
Tamiya P-47D-15. I was quite
impressed with the straight forward and well thought out details
Darrell added to his P-47.
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George "Chorse6" Salerno
joins us with his beautifully
done 1/48 Monogram F-101C Voodoo
with C&H Aero Conversion. George
rescribed his Voodoo and did so much more.
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Saturday,
May 13 2006 |
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Paolo Yuen starts
today with his 1/32 Revell F-4F Phantom II.
Paolo has used resin and photo etch detail items to improve the detail
on his Phantom and then gently shaded the panel lines and finished it
off in Luftwaffe markings.
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Bill Lachance
joins us with his
1/48 Eduard Bf 108 Taifun.
Bill built his 108 to his usual high standards complete with his
carefully done cockpit detailing.
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Friday,
May 12 2006 |
A reminder....The Rocky
Mountain Model Club in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is having their Western
Canadian Regional Model Contest 2006 on Saturday,
May 13th 2006.
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David Chong
built a
special F-14 for a special lady. This is his
1/48 Academy F-14A Tomcat
complete with sexy noseart and a
hand-drawn script of her name next to the noseart. Pretty cool
project David, I'm sure she was impressed.
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Yasushi Saito
joins us from
Japan with a very well done
1/48 Dynavector Westland Wyvern S.4.
This is a high quality limited run kit and was built very well with
excellent photos.
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Pablo Ggirgulsky
has done a fine job
building and
detailing his
1/48 Revell F-8 Crusader.
The end result is quite appealing and his article tells about the
history of this famous gunfighter aircraft.
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Thursday,
May 11 2006 |
I'm pleased to announce the
new Hobbydecal
Dry Transfer System forum on
the ARC Manufacturers Forums. The owner of Hobbydecal
will be there to answer all your questions about their dry transfer system
of stencils and decals.
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Manuel J. Armas S.
starts your Thursday update with
his 1/48
Revell F/A-18E Super Hornet. Manuel did a fantastic job
on his F-18 and quite likes this new model kit.
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Lou Anatrella
has done a beautiful
job building his 1/48 Revell B-25J & TB-25J.
Lou finished one in olive drab and the other in baremetal and ended up
with 2 great models from this classic kit.
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Armin
Knes is
here with another aircraft in his continuing Su-collection.
This is his 1/48 KoPrp Su-22 M3
complete with a resin cockpit and cool looking
paint scheme.
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Jason Cooper
has put quite a bit of
effort
detailing his 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire VB.
Jason added quite a few scratch-built details and weathering and
finished it of in the marking for one of the most famous RAF Aces
from WW2.
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Mark Kubes
is here with some of his Lockheed
F-22A Raptor
walkaround
photos.
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Wednesday,
May 10 2006 |
I've added a link to Modeler
Site http://www.modelersite.com
to the ARC links pages. This is a modelling site that covers a
variety of models....not just aircraft.
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Eric Salazar
starts today with his very well done
1/48 Italeri F-4E Phantom II.
Eric finished his Phantom is the very attractive SEA camo
scheme. This one looks great Eric.
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Jose R. Quimbiulco "Q"
has risen to the
occasion when he built the big
1/32 Tamiya F-16CJ.
Grab a coffee or tea and enjoy this one during your work
break.
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Gabriel Stern
is here to educate and amuse you with his article on his
1/72 ICM I-1 (IL-400).
Not quite as attractive as a Spitfire......but definately more
unique.
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Tuesday,
May 9 2006 No update
today |
European Union Day |
Russia - End of Great Patriotic War |
Malta gets Spitfires |
Liberation Day for the Channel Islands |
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It's been 11 days since my accident.
I am quite tired from poor sleep due to pain in my arm and my body
sending all energy to heal my arm. Yesterday I saw my Doctor and things are healing fine. It will be weeks before I can
begin using my arm. Due to the injury, 25 square inches (160 square
cm) of the forearm skin had become paralyzed......but so far 25% has
regained some degree of feeling and another 25% has begun to regain
feeling. I remain optimistic.
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Monday,
May 8 2006
V.E. Day -- Victory in Europe (1945) |
The Rocky
Mountain Model Club in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is having their Western
Canadian Regional Model Contest 2006 on Saturday,
May 13th 2006.
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José R. Alvarez
joins us with his very nicely done
1/48 Revell F4U-7 French Corsair.
José has weathered and chipped the paint and added a full weapons
load and I'm sure you'll enjoy seeing it.
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Matt Wohlford
has done a beautiful
job building his big 1/32 Revell F-14A Tomcat.
Matt finished off his Tomcat in Jolly Rogers markings to get quite
the attractive bird.
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Sunday,
May 7 2006 |
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Alejandro Núñez "Marseille"
has been busy
weathering his 1/48 IAR-80 LTD Models.
I was quite impressed with the paint chipping on this one.
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Rob Knox has
done quite the job on his 1/32 Tamiya F16-CJ.
You'll get a kick out of his one when you see it.
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Saturday,
May 6 2006 |
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Friday,
May 5 2006
Mexico
-- Cinco De Mayo |
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Bill Lachance
begins today's update with his 1/48 Hasegawa A6M2-N Rufe.
Bill added some photo etch detail items and finished it off to his
usual high
standards.
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Armin
Knes has done a fine job building his 1/48 Historic Plastic Models MiG-19 S.
Armin wasn't satisfied building his MiG straight out of the box and
instead did some extra work to improve the detail.
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Pawel Befingre has been busy
building his 1/72 Revell Mustang P-51B.
It's not easy building these smaller Mustangs, but Pawel put good
effort into his Mustang.
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Eddie Lau
joins us with his beautifully
done 1/72 Fujimi A4KU "Free Kuwait".
Eddie did an excellent job on his Skyraider....I always get a
kick out of seeing these Kuwaiti Skyraiders.
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News
from Meter Productions
regarding the 1/32 F-105D
canopies....they are now shipping!
Thanks to those of you who have been
patiently waiting for Meter
Productions to make the new molds for the 1/32 F-105D Open
Canopy Conversion for Trumpeter, which fixes that abysmal spine and
canopy on the Trumpeter kit. You'll find it was worth the wait. They
changed several of their chemical processes and they designed a new
molding technology, and the clear parts are coming out just beautiful.
They've made their first set of production molds and are making
additional molds every day, so they expect they will be caught up
completely with the orders holding by within a week or less.
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Thursday,
May 4 2006 |
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Henrique V. Malzone
joins us
with his first article on ARC. This is his very well done
1/48 Monogram He 111
torpedo bomber complete with white engine nacelles. Nice job.
I look forward to seeing more of your models on ARC. Welcome
to ARC!!!
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Mark Rutt joins
us with his very fine looking 1/48 Italeri Tornado.
Mark finished it in Royal Saudi Air Force markings and scratchbult
cockpit details.
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Hidekazu Ogi
is here
from Japan with 2 photos of his 1/48 Academy Mig21MF.
This MiG-21 was finished in Hungarian AF Puma squadron
markings.
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Wednesday,
May 3 2006 Israel
Independence Day
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Poland Constitution Day |
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Girolamo Lorusso
begins today's Israel Independence Day
update with his 1/48 ESCI Kfir C2.
Girolamo did quite a few
modifications to his Kfir and finished it off with
aftermarket decals.
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Ryan Cameron
and
Ken Stanworth have
been busy building their 1/72 Academy Typhoons.
I got a kick out of seeing both of the Typhoons and the story in
the article.....that is what this hobby is all about.
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Tuesday,
May 2 2006
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No update today.....I'm
resting.
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Monday,
May 1 2006
May Day
Labor Day |
First engagement of Argentine Airforce in Falklands / Malvinas War
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P.
W. Stantiford starts
your special May Day update with his first article on ARC.
This is his 1/72 RVHP Be-12 "Mail"
which was made froma multi-media
kit to produce this excellent looking model of this bent wing
aircraft. Welcome to ARC Patrick!!!
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Mukund
Vora
is here
with his May Day article to honour Poland. This is his
1/48 Su-22 M4 from KP.
Mukund gave his Su-22 a full weapons load and a fantastic paint job.
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Gabriel
Stern
is also here on
May Day to honour Russia with his
1/72 ICM I-16.
This little model is up to Gabriel's usual high standards
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Vince Maddux from
VMDecals is
here with a preview of the upcoming 1/72
P-3C Orion Decals.
You get a choice of 6 different schemes. Vince is testing the
waters here to make sure there is demand for this sheet.
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