Tuesday,
Feb 28 2006 |
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Fausto
Muto starts
today with his 1/72
Hasegawa F-104S. Fausto
used some resin detail items on his 1/72 F-104....and then
finished it off with an amazing paint job.
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Constantin
has been
busy building his 1/48
Tamiya P-51D "Dora Dee". You'll
like this one......beautifully detailed and flawlessly
weathered and finished.
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Aaron
Hughes has
done a fine job building his 1/48
Airfix Lightning T5. Aaron
converted his Lightning to a 2 seater using a conversion set
and then finished it up very nicely.
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Monday,
Feb 27 2006 |
Dominican Republic Independence Day |
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Eric Salazar
starts your week
with his first article on ARC. This is his eye catching
1/48 Hasegawa F-15/CJ
that he built mostly out of the box......it's a beaut. Welcome
to ARC Eric.
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Colin Whitehouse
joins us with his bright red
1/48 Heritage Aviation De Havilland DH88 Comet Racer.
This is a limited run kit without the comet racer decals......Colin
put much effort to get this red beauty complete and his article
includes the fascinating history behind this pre-war aircraft that
evolved into the Mosquito.
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Jenny Song is
here with a flawlessly done 1/48 Academy Su-27UB.
It's a special treat to see Jenny's Su-27 on ARC.....this Su-27 is
built with the skill of an experienced modeller.
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Laurent Boildieu
with his very
nicely weathered 1/48 Academy Curtiss H-75.
This finely built French fighter fought during the battle of France
in May 1940.
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Sunday,
Feb 26 2006
Kuwait Liberation Day |
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No
update today....I'm archiving review articles.
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Saturday,
Feb 25 2006
Kuwait National Day |
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Douglas K. L. Chan
begins today's update with his tiny and
highly detailed 1/350 Tamiya E-2C Hawkeye.
Don't be fooled by the tiny scale....Douglas has detailed this baby.
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Friday,
Feb 24 2006 Estonia National Day |
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Alan
Williamson starts
today with his 1/48
Tamiya MiG 15 bis. Alan added
a resin cockpit set and finished his MiG mostly out of the box
after that. Good to see Alan.
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Darren
McGuinness has
put quite a bit of effort into his 1/48
Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.VIII.
Darren finished his Spitfire with scratchbuilt details and US
markings and weathering....the end result came out very nice.
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Thursday,
Feb 23 2006
Brunei
National Day
Guyana National Day
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No
update today. I've been busy the past week finishing the
gallery archiving. I'll be archiving the final 10 or so
articles today.
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Wednesday,
Feb 22 2006 |
Emad
Tabsh has created a new website devoted
to his scale models at www.eftabsh.com
warning....this
website has sound. |
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Creighton
Henthorn starts
today with his award
winning 1/48
Hasegawa F/A-18A Hornet.
Creighton has done quite a bit of work on his Hornet and used
a vareity of aftermarket items including Twobobs
decals.
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Tuesday,
Feb 21 2006 |
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Steve Ringlein aka madelf
starts today with his 1/48 EA-6b Prowler.
Steve used the Cutting edge wingfolds and other resin items to
detail his Prowler, then finished it with weathering techniques he
learned from an IPMS CLub member.
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Alain Conte
has been busy
building his 1/72 Heller P-38 Lightning.
This is a P-38 exciting through the center of a book. You'll
have to read Alain's article to fully appreciate the story behind
this moving diorama.
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Pere lliteras joins us with his 1/32 Revell Uh-1h Dustoff.
This model is to honor the Med-Evac choppers and the brave crews
that flew them.
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Monday,
Feb 20 2006 |
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Julian Schüngel
begins the week with
his 1/72 Revell H-34G and H-21C.
This is a selcetion of Julian's fine choppers in German
markings.....including a photo from a German Museum.
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"Le Mau"
joins us with his 1/48 Hasegawa EF-18A.
A fine looking Spanish EF-18A with a resin seat and some
scratchbuilt details.
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Laurent Boildieu
has dropped by with his 1/48 Hasegawa Bf 109 G-10.
Laurent used some aftermarket detail parts and finished it all off
with weathering to depict this "end of the war"
fighter.
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Said 'Shark' Ordaz
stopped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his 1/48 Italeri KA-50 'Hokum'.
Said did extra detailing to his attack chopper. Nice one
Said.
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No
updates this weekend.....I'm busy doing archiving.
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Friday,
Feb 17 2006 Steve
Filak's Birthday!!! |
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Douglas
K. L. Chan starts
your Friday update with his 1/48
Hasegawa F-104G. Douglas built
his attractive German F-104 and finished it with an Eduard
detail set.
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William
Powell joins
us with his 1/35
Trumpeter Mi-24 Hind-E. This
is a Russian Hind in the attractive camo schemes used by the
Russians.
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Armin
Knes is
here with his 1/48
Revell MiG-25 RBF. Armin did
extensive work to corrent the accuracy on his MiG and then
finished it in one heck of a nice paint scheme.
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Thursday,
Feb 16 2006 |
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Everett McEwan
has been busy super
detailing his 1/48 Italeri U-2S "Senior Span". Everett
used some Cutting Edge resin items as well as his expert weathering
to finish this beauty.
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Mark Davies
joins us with his very
nicely done 1/72 Czech Master Resin VEF Irbitis I-16.
Mark has provided some interesting background info on the I-6 and
well as what was involved to build his model.
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Alan Williamson
is he with his
beautifully finished
1/48 Hasegawa A-4F Skyhawk.
Alan didn't like the first painting job applied to this model so he
stripped it and went at it again.....the results were well worth the
effort.
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Wednesday,
Feb 15 2006
Serbia
National Day |
Singapore - Fall of Singapore (1942) |
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Ted
Taylor has
been busy building his 1/32
TrumpeterA-7E Corsair II.
Ted built this one in his usual expert way and details the
full job in his article with many in-progress photos.
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Hiran
Horta joins
us from Brazil with his very nicely done 1/72
Academy Me-109.
Hiran enjoyed building his 109 and talks about it in his
article.
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Bill
Retoff has done an outstanding
job building his 1/72
Airfix F-84F.
It's good to see Bill's F-84 on ARC.
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Tuesday,
Feb 14 2006 |
Valentines
Day....do something special for the one you love!!! |
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Si Tomlinson
starts your Valentines Day update with
his first article on ARC. This is his 1/48 Hasegawa Hawker Typhoon Mk1b
done up in D-Day stripes and detailed with
seatbelts and aftermarket decals. An attractive
model....welcome to ARC Si!!!.
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Harrison Carmody
joins us with his first
article on ARC. This is his 1/48 Academy Mig-29 Fulcrum
with extra detail items in the cockpit and
effective weathering. Well done Harrison....welcome to ARC!!!
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Octavio José Garibaldo
is here with his 1/72 Matchbox Avro Lancaster B.1.
This is an older kit but that didn't stop Octavio from finishing it
up and producing a fine model of this famous Lancaster with quite
the history.
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Dean Large
joins us with his sharp looking
1/144 Revell B-52H.
Dean has completed quite the variety of models here on ARC.....it's
always a treat to see his latest work.
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Monday,
Feb 13 2006 |
Tibet Independence Day |
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Jean-Luc Caut
begins the week with
his 1/32 Tamiya F-16C.
Jean-Luc used a resin cockpit and aftermarket decals and
scratchbuilt detailing to finish his impressive Viper.
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Pere Lliteras
has been busy
super detailing his 1/48 Revell Bf-110 Nocturnal Bird.
Pere used aftermarket resin details to make this one fine looking
model of the 110.
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Jan Mikes
is here
with a very special and unique model of his
1/48 Sukhoi T10-1 (The Very First Flanker).
Jan spent 10 months reworking the airframe on his model to get his
model to look like the prototype. Lots of work......but
the finished model was worth it.
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Johannes Kreutzer
joins us
with his 1/72 Revell Twin Mustang F.
Although this is an older kit, Johannes
did a very nice job on it and finished it in some very colourful
markings.
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Sunday,
Feb 12 2006 |
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Said
'Shark' Ordaz dropped
by the ARC Corporate offices with his 1/48
Lindberg MiG 31. Said
has a passion for Russian jets and this latest MiG has added
detail to correct some kit shortcomings.
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Saturday,
Feb 11 2006 |
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Laurent Boildieu
starts your Saturday update with his 1/48 Accurate Miniatures Yak-1b.
This aircraft has a sharks mouth which and weathering and added
detailling.
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Nissim
Tzukduian joins us with his 1/48
Hasegawa F-15C. Nissim
was busy added aftermarket detailing and scratchbuilt details to
complete this beauty.
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Friday,
Feb 10 2006 |
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Thursday,
Feb 9 2006 |
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Alan
Williamson gets
things started today with his 1/48
Hasegawa F-16B Fighting Falcon.
Alan did a fair bit of sanding and filling on this kit to get
certain areas to fit and he tells about this in his article.
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Ramses
M. Montes has
put quite a bit of effort into his 1/24
Trumpeter P-51D "Red Tail Mustang".
Ramses did extra detailing in his P-51 to get it looking right
and then finished it off in the markings of the legendary
Tuskegee Airmen.
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Haroon
Hamid joins
us with his attractive 1/48
Academy Mig-21FL Type 77.
This is a special Indian Air Force fighter that shot down an
F-104 and Haroon tells about this in his article.
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Preview
3 new products
from Ozmods
including
- 1/48
MACCHI MB326 90gal Tanks, Flaps, Nose Wheel Leg
- 1/72
and 1/48 ASRAAM Missiles
- 1/72
SUU-20 Practice Bomb Carriers
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Wednesday,
Feb 8 2006 |
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Scott C. Schuyler
has been busy
building his 1/48 Tamiya F-117 Stealth.
Wow...Scott used quite a few techniques on his F-117....he talks
about them in his article.
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Alejandro Núńez "Marseille" joins us with his 1/48 Czech Models Me-309.
Alejandro
did a lovely job finishing his
Me-309 in a "what if" scheme.
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Armin Knes
stopped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his 1/48 Hobbycraft MiG-17 F.
It is always a treat to see Armin's latest Russian jet on ARC and
this MiG is no exception.
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Tuesday,
Feb 7 2006
Grenada
Independence Day |
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Hank
Gruben starts
today with his attractive
1/48
Airfix Spitfire Mk. 24. Hank
is very fond of this kit and his article gives plenty of info
about building it.
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Seb91
has been
busy building his 1/72
Hasegawa F-14 Tomcat NSAWC "13".
This sharp looking F-14 was built with a resin detail set and
parts from other F-14's and aftermarket decals.
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Hiran
Horta joins
us from Brazil with his
1/72 Tamiya Corsair. Hiran
tried some new techniques when he built his worn and weathered
Corsair with good final results.
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Monday,
Feb 6 2006
New Zealand Waitangi Day |
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I've added the
website French Wings www.frenchairwings.com
to the ARC links pages. This website will be on interest
to modellers with a love of French aircraft.
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Sinuhe
Hahn stopped
by the ARC Corporate offices with his 1/48
Tamiya Dornier 335. Sinuhe has more
than one Do-335's in his article....all in captured
markings.....always a treat to see Sinuhe's models.
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Sunday,
Feb 5 2006
San Marino
- Santa Agata Day |
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Saturday,
Feb 4 2006 Sri
Lanka Independence
Day |
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I
spent a number of hours Thursday reformatting the ARC home
page to get it to look better in all computer screen
resolutions. Just more of that behind the scenes stuff
that improves things but is mostly un-noticed.
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Gabriel Stern
starts
today's update with his
1/72 RPM Beriev Be-4 (KOR-2).
As usual Gabriel's article is a very amusing read.....this is
one nasty kit to build.
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Thursday,
Feb 2 2006 |
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István
Hevesi begins
today's update with his 1/48
Monogram B-29.
István's
B-29 has a multi-shaded bare metal finish and
was built out of the box with the exception of
the aftermarket decals.
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Rafi
Ben-Shahar joins
us with his 1/48
Hasegawa F-14B.
Rafi did some very realistic looking weathering
on his attractive looking Tomcat.
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Rob
Knox is
here with his first article on ARC today.
This is his 1/32
Tamiya F-16CJ.
Rob is big on detailing.....and you'll see that
on his F-16. Welcome to ARC Rob!!!
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Wednesday,
Feb 1 2006 |
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Phi Ho joins us with his first
model on ARC. This is his 1/48 Tamiya A-1H
Skyraider
in markings for the VNAF. This is beautifully built with perfect
weathering and excellent photos as well.
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Darren Roberts stopped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his 1/48 VF-33 Tarsiers/Starfighters History.
Darren goes into the history of VF-33 and includes 4 of his models of
4 of the aircraft flown by VF-33.
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Massimo La Civita
is here with his 1/48 Smer Fiat CR-32.
Massimo did extensive scratchbuilding to improve
upon this basic kit.....with very good results.
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Alan Williamson is
here with a very useful Tools n Tips article about Stripping paint.
Definitely worth the read.
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