Wednesday,
Dec 31 2008 |
Happy
New Year!!! |
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I'd like to
wish everyone the very best in 2009. Silly
weeks begins tomorrow and I've decided
to take the week off and give in to
Dan's Mon-key constant pleading to let
him run the site during Silly Week. He's promised to be good.
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Fernando I. Moreno Villa
is here with a very special article. First he tells about the
whole story behind building his 1/72 Italeri Kfir C2 and then
Fernando tells the story of visiting Venice from Mexico and meeting
with a fellow ARC'ers in Venice. Grab a warm drink and enjoy
the story.
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Han Chong
joins us on the last day of 2008 with this fine looking 1/48 Academy F15E.
This F-15 was built out of the box and includes a full weapons
load to complete the look.
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Titus "Surefire" Zapanta
is here with one of the most impressive bi-plane models I've
seen. This is his 1/8 Hasegawa RAF SE5a Museum Series complete
with all the wooden beauty that the real aircraft had.
Amazing.
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Artur Oslizlo
has put huge effort into his 1/48 Hasegawa F-16D Block 52+.
This twin seat Polish F-16 is loaded with resin goodies and
finished with a fantastic weathered paint job that is complimented
with Twobobs
decals.
Twobobs
decals.
Twobobs
decals.
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Chip Jean
is here with a beautifully done 1/48 Accurate Miniatures SB2U-3 Vindicator.
Chip had some quality issues with this kit as it was part of the
early production run, but Chip persisted and finished it off with a
stunning faded paint job.
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Tuesday,
Dec 30 2008 |
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Igor Petrovic
is here with not one but two
models. These are his 1/48 L&M Resin PC-9A & PC-9AM
done with with amazing skill. Have a close look at the
very last photo and you'll see one of these aircraft has a tie down
rope for the prop tip and both have RBF tags as you'd see when these
aircraft are parked on the ground. Beautifully done. |
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Alan Purusram
has gone to great efforts on his 1/48 Revell / Monogram B-58A Hustler.
Alan scratchbuilt the interior on his Hustler and used Aires
resin exhausts along with other goodies and scratchbuilt work before
finishing it off with a multi-shade bare metal finish. Well
done Alan.
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Phil Mead
has been busy getting things looking just right on his 1/48
Hasegawa Hawker Typhoon 1b Tropical. Phil added Eduard and
scratchbuilt details to the cockpit before finishing his Typhoon in
the faded desert camo worn by this aircraft during WW2.
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Arthur L. Caesar & Son
is here with two 1/48 Revell A-10A Warthogs. This
is a Father Son project and I can't think os a better way to spend
time with a son. Way to go guys.....both Warthogs came out
looking great!!
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Angel Mesa
did something very special here when building this 1/72 SH-3 Seaking Spanish Navy.
The decals from this Seaking were taken from a few sheets
as Spanish Seaking decals don't exist. Now that is
determination and the reward is an excellent looking Spanish Seaking.
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Mel Silvestre
is here with test shots of the 1/32 Trumpeter Fairey Swordfish.
Well done Mel!!! My special thanks and New Year wishes go
out to the members of IPMS Philippines Bert Anido
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I have a
review of the new 1/48 F/A-18C Snakes on a Plane decal sheet from
Afterburner
Decals.
This sheet
includes 5 aircraft from VFA-86 Sidewinders including 2 high
viz jet and one very special jet with a unique 3 tone gray camo
paint scheme. |
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I have a
review of the new 1/144
Middle East Hercules decal sheet from
IsraDecal.
This decal
sheet includes markings from 7 different air forces from the Middle
East region including 3 different Israeli paint schemes.
This is another decal sheet that is sure to be a hit with modellers. |
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Monday,
Dec 29 2008 |
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Cüneyt
ÖZEN has been very busy super detailing his 1/32
Academy F-16 C Block 50. This wonderful F-16 is
weathered and finished in Turkish Air Force markings. |
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Oliver
Peissl has much skill when it comes to weathering and
painting as you see in the cockpit photos of his 1/48
Eduard Messerschmitt Bf 110-E. Oliver added
scratchbuilt details and after market detail items to bring
his Bf-110 to life and finished it off in a weathered Desert
camo scheme. |
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Sertac
Bayar joins us from Turkey with his 1/48 Revell
F-84F/Q. This special diorama includes his beautiful
F-84F/Q finished off in Turkish Air Force markings. Very
nicely done. |
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Carmel
J Attard joins us from sunny Malta with his 1/72 Pavla
Douglas O-46A. This multi-media kit includes some
resin parts and in the talented hand of a modeller like Carmel
it builds up into a great looking example of this between war
aircraft. |
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Here
is a product announcement for the E-2C
VAW-124 Bear Aces, AJ600 / 165299 and AJ601 / 164483
CVW-8, USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 - 2007 print from Deployment
Productions.
This print is available in 5 different sizes.
Remember 20% off of any
products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community member!
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Albert
Moore
is here with a review of the new
1/48
CH-46F/Early E Conversion Set
from MAW
Decals. This
is a 14 piece resin conversion set to convert Academys 1/48
CH-46A (kit #12210) or CH-46D (kit #12207) into a CH-46F/Early E Sea
Knight. |
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Radek
Lhotsky is here with a review of the new 1/48 Yankee
Spitfires decal sheet Corsica & Italy, 1943-1944 from
Rising
Decals. This decal sheet
includes 4 different American Spitfires in 4 different paint
schemes. |
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Kelly
Quirk is
here with a review of the new 1/48
VMFA-122 decal sheet from Flying
Leathernecks Decals. Included
are options for ALL 12 aircraft currently assigned to
VMFA-122. |
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Sunday,
Dec 28
2008 |
Nepal - Birthday of H.M. Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
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Australia - "Proclamation Day" in South Australia |
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Friday,
Dec 26
2008 |
Slovenia Independence Day |
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Paul Nortness
joins us with his colorful 1/48 Hobbycraft A-4C. Paul
has high regards for the Hobbycraft kit and rightly so. He
used a sludge wash for the panel lines that he explains in his
article and he finished off his Scooter with Eagle
Strike decals. Nicely done Paul.
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Tom Berres
is here to
wow you with his 1/72 Roden Antonov An-12Bk Cub. Tom
made excellent use of the Ace PE set and his skilled painting
techniques for getting the interior detail painting looking
right. Tom explains all his painting tricks in his
article. He also used a Waldron punch set with much delight
and success.
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Baran Çakmak
is one of those very talented modellers from Turkey and he's
here today with his 1/72 PM Sukhoi SU 21 TM. Baran
did much extra work to his Su-21 including thinning flying surfaces
and even sanding the canopy to make it thinner and does his canopy
ever shine. The extra work and scratchbuilding Baran did is
impressive and a pleasure to see.
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Paolo Yuen
is here to give us a taste of the excellent results that are
possible when building the 1/700 Trumpeter/Italeri CVN-76 USS Ronald Reagan.
Paolo kit bashed the Italeri and Trumpeter kit using the best of
both kits to create this masterpiece. After seeing this
carrier, I suspect more people will be building an aircraft
carrier.
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Here
is a product announcement for the E-2C
Hawkeye VAW-124 Bear Aces, AJ600 / 165300. CVW-8, USS Theodore
Roosevelt CVN-71 - 2008 print from Deployment
Productions. This
print is available in 5 different sizes. Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
member!
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I
have a review of the new 1/72 Middle East Meteors
decal sheet from IsraDecal.
This decal sheet permits you to build any Meteor operated by Israel
plus many Meteors operated by Egypt and Syria in a pleasing
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Thursday,
Dec 25
2008 |
Christmas
Day |
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I'd like to share with
you my favourite Christmas song. It's called Christmas
in the Trenches and is written and sung by an American Folk
singer John McCutcheon and it tells the story of the Christmas
truce in 1914 when a young German left the German trenches to
socialize with British troops. Soon troops from both side were
leaving their trenches to meet with soldiers from the opposing
side. This video contains actual photos of the British and
German troops enjoying each others friendship during this magical
Christmas of 1914. Click
here to hear the song and see the photos
Merry Christmas
everyone.
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Wednesday,
Dec 24
2008 |
Serbian Air Force Day |
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To
track Santa on Christmas Eve with your kids...go to this website http://www.noradsanta.org/
I've done this
with my daughters when they were small and it was quite fun for
them....and myself. There are already some videos loaded and more
get added all day long as Santa makes his way around the planet on his
Christmas Eve run.
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Alvis 3.1 is here with the aircraft from my favourite Christmas Eve story. This is "The
Shepherd"......a story that is played on CBC radio each Christmas Eve. I've listened to it each year for the past 25 years. Alvis has included a link to the audio story and his models are the models featured in the story. This story is a MUST listen. Enjoy.
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Here's
a direct link to the 30 minute story "The Shepherd"
read by the late Alan Maitland of CBC.
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It is a holiday
tradition here on ARC to speculate what vehicles Santa will use to
deliver presents on Christmas Eve. Alvis 3.1 is here today to
present 3 of Santa's toy delivery vehicles.
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Alvis 3.1
is here with his first aircraft from Santa's snowy hanger.
This is What Santa flew, 1934. Yup.....a modified Gee
Bee Racer......but read the whole article for the whole history
about Santa's Gee Bee. |
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Alvis 3.1
is here with the second aircraft. This is what Santa
flew in 1967. This aircraft sports a false canopy.......of
sorts.....it all relates to Santa and the name Santa gave it is VERY
funny. |
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Alvis 3.1
is here with one of the more sensible Santa aircraft........or
so I would have thought. This is Santa's 1/48 Polar Pogo, but
read the story to find out the down side to using this aircraft. |
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Tuesday,
Dec 23
2008 |
Japan - Birthday of H.I.M. Emperor Akihito |
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Raul Corral
is here with his article entitled "Bringing your models to life".
Raul has included photos of 10 of his models including American
and Luftwaffe fighters and even a Luftwaffe flying wing.....all with
different backgrounds.
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Paul Goodman
is here with his first completed model in over 2 years.
This good looking in-flight 1/72 Hasegawa F-16 is a model of
the actual aircraft that Paul crewed while in the USAF. Nice
one Paul.
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Leandro Ñeco Castaño
joins us with his big marvelous 1/28 Revell Fokker Dr-1.
Leandro chose the very striking red paint scheme that was made
most famous by the Red Baron.
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Tom Berres
has hit a home run with his 1/72 Streem Su-24M Fencer-D.
Tom dressed up his Fencer with a Neomega set and Eduard PE
set. He then kitbashed some details using some Dragon
Fencer detail parts before he finished it off with decals from
High Decal, Linden Hill. The paint job is fantastic.
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Frederick D. Smith
is here with two his models which include the 1/72 Italeri C-130H and 1/144 Revell C-130H.
Both of these were finished to a very high level of quality as
you'll see in Tom's photos. I enjoyed seeing the photos of the
smaller Herk sitting piggyback on the larger
model.
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Here
is a product announcement for the E-2C
Hawkeye VAW-124 Bear Aces, AJ601 / 165299. CVW-8, USS Theodore
Roosevelt CVN-71 - 2007 print from Deployment
Productions.
This
print is available in 5 different sizes. Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
member!
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I have a
review of the new 1/72 Israeli Air Force Kfir decal sheet from IsraDecal.
This decal sheet permits you to build any Kfir operated by
Israel and includes 3 full sets of stencils. |
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I have a
review of the new 1/72
CAF CF-18 Norad 50th 2008 Demo bird decal sheet from Leading
Edge Models.
This special demo bird with NORAD artwork includes two sets of
tailart decals....one for the Monogram kit and one for the Hasegawa
kit.
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Monday,
Dec 22 2008 |
Happy
Chanukah! Festival of Lights began Dec 21 |
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We were without power
for 8 hours last night and early this morning. Between my wife
rustling about during the night and the lack of heat it was a
restless night. It turns out the last outage was due to salt
from sea spray on the power pole insulators and pole poles causing
the whole pole to ground to earth.....on a number of power
poles. Today it was a big old tree across the powerlines and
road. With the roads as bad as they are here due to the total
lack of snow removal and one or two tiny snowplows......I was up
early driving my wife to work. Came home to a cold house and
went to bed and slept til noon.
On a positive
note.......I did get out sledding with my kids
yesterday.....sledding only happens every few years around here.
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Rene de Koning
gets things started today with photos from the recent Eagles Day 2008
held in Melbourne Australia. Very enjoyable to see
some of the models that were on display at this fine event.
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Artur Oslizlo
joins us today with his 1/48 Trumpeter MiG-3. Artur
jazzed up the detail with an Eduard zoom PE and Quickboost resin
exhaust pipes only. I really liked how the weathering and
exhaust stains turned out on this one.
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Danny Vazquez
is here with one of my favourite jets. This is his 1/48 Hasegawa AV-8B Harrier
dressed up with Aires Cockpit and wheel wells, Eduard PE set for
exterior details and finished of with an impressive weathering job
and Superscale decals.
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Jeff Vail
is here with a blast from the past. This is his 1/72
Aurora AH 56A Cheyenne modified and finished off in a what-if
scheme including weapons. It's good to see this helo built and
finished in what-if operational markings.
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Tyler White
has finished off a stellar looking 1/48
Hasegawa F-14B. Tyler did plenty of work to his Tomcat and
added some Steel Beach intake covers, True Details resin seats,
Eduard masks and photo etch for the cockpit and then finished it off
with Figthertown Decals.
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Here
is a product announcement for theEA-6B
Prowler VAQ-135 Black Ravens, NH500 / 158544. CVW-11, USS Nimitz
CVN-68 - 2007 print from Deployment
Productions.This
print is available in 5 different sizes . Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
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Friday,
Dec 19 2008 |
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Here's
the latest Hot
Babe of the Week!
photos from Twobobs.
This week it is a Gunship Gray
F-117 from Holloman. This jet along with a few others were the
subject of the last Twobobs
117 sheet which are sold out in 1/48 but
available in 72nd. These photos are courtesy of Bob's good
buddy Don Logan. Great photographer and great author. |
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Álvaro Troncoso Gil (Brujo)
has done a wonderful job on his 1/48 Hobbyboss A-10 Thunderbolt II.
This A-10 received some very special treatment in the engine bay to
add extra scratchbuilt detailing. |
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Carmel J. Attard
is here to show his talent at building vac-u-formed kits.
This is his 1/72 Airmodel Heinkel He 59C done up in Finnish
markings. It is very nice and he has included a full report on
building this model as well as quite a few pics of his German Search
and rescue 1/72 Airmodel Heinkel He 59C in a white scheme with red
crosses.
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Shawn "Phantom" Weiler
joins us with a very special 1/48 Monogram A-6E Intruder.
This model was possible due to a couple generous ARCers.
Breadboard and Tony Hayes, but you'll need top read Shawn's article
for the full story. Shawn's Intruder includes a Black Box
Cockpit. |
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Here
is a product announcement for the EA-6B Prowler VAQ-133
Wizards, NL530 / 161120. Electronic Attack Wing, US Pacific Fleet -
2007 from Deployment
Productions.This
print is available in 5 different sizes . Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
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Thursday, Dec 18
2008 |
Niger - Proclamation of the Republic |
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This
weeks Twobobs
Newsletter is up. Bob has all the instruction
sheets for the upcoming Red Dragon and yellow Swordfish Daken
sheets plus much more. Also
Bob has an updated list to the sheets he's got on sale for
$3. This list is shrinking fast so don't delay......for
$3 you can't loose. |
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Aleksander Gorski
starts today with his eye catching 1/48 Airfix Spitfire Vc.
Aleksander did quite a bit of kit bashing using parts from a
Tamiya kit and well as an ICM Spitfire before finishing his Spitfire
in RAAF markings complete with noseart. |
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Julien Haccoun
has done everything right to create his 1/48 Tamiya F-16C.
Julien used an Aires Engine, Cobra Company ALQ-188 pod and finished
off his F-16 in the attractive markings from Afterburner decals.
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Rafi Ben-Shahar
is here with two models today. These are his 1/48 Eduard/Dragon Focke Wulf Fw 190A-8
that Rafi built to his usual high standard. Rafi compares
both kits in his article and give his verdict as to which is the
better kit. |
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Francone Diego
is here with one the more popular European jet. This is
his 1/72 Revell F-2000 Typhoon finished off in Italian
markings. It's always a treat to see a model of the Typhoon. |
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Wednesday,
Dec 17
2008 |
Bhutan National Day |
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Our power has just
come on after being out for 12 hours. I have no idea what the
cause was as there has been no new snow, ice or storms. The
house did get down to 60F (15C)....not exactly freezing....but not
having power wasn't helping me catch up on my ARC work.
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Gökhan Eren
starts today's update with his very nicely done 1/72 Italeri Mirage 2000 D
H.A.F. Gökhan did find some fit issues with this kit, but it wasn't
anything he couldn't deal with. |
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Negri Manuel
is here with a special little 1/72 Hobbyboss Bf-109 G6 that
he built for his friend. The weathering on this 109 really
does look excellent. |
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Serge Dompierre
is here with his 1/48 Monogram Mc Donnell Douglas AV-8B that
he built 20 years ago OOB using kit decals. Serge finished his
Harrier in the markings for the US Marines Corps VMA 331 Bumblebees
squadron. |
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Martin Ramsden
joins us with something not often seen. This is his 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat
finished off with an Atlantic paint scheme and full
weathering. This model looks very realistic. |
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Tuesday,
Dec 16
2008 |
Bahrain National Day |
Kazakhstan National Day |
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No
update today. I returned home last last night from
a 2 week car drive to Disneyland (4 days of driving each way).
Click
here to read more. I'm busy today helping my daughter
catch up on 2 weeks of math homework and downloading 2 weeks worth
of e-mails. |
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No
update today.http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=172329&hl= |
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Saturday,
Dec 13
2008 |
Saint Lucia Independence Day |
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Friday,
Dec 12
2008 |
Kenya Independence Day |
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Gökhan Eren
has done an impressive weathering job on his 1/72 Revell F-4 E Phantom.
Gökhan added scratchbuilt details with plastic and metal and
didn't use any aftermarket detail items. |
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Negri Manuel
has dropped by today with something not seen very often.
This is his 1/200 Hasegawa C-47 finished off in Search and
Rescue markings, which is soemthing I don't recall seeing
before. I like it!!! |
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Christian Villa
is here with his first article on ARC today. This is his
beautifully done 1/32 Revell F-104S ASA-M complete with a
fantastic weathering job and finished as one of the last
Starfighters used by Italy. Welcome to ARC Christian!!! |
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John Doerr
is here with one of the coolest looking camo schemes I've ever
seen on a Ju-87. This is his 1/32 Hasegawa Ju-87D
Nachtschlacht and the camo pattern is all done freehand. |
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Thursday,
Dec 11 2008 |
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David Bey
is here with one of my favourite aircraft. this is his 1/48 Tamiya F-16C
modified into an Israeli F-16C 'Barak' using resin goodies from
Dr Pepper
Resins. If you've not been to
the Dr Pepper Resins site you should drop by and see what products
they have. David did a flawless job on this one as you'll see
in his photos. |
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Serge Dompierre
is here with one of his earlier builds. This is his 1/48 Monogram T-6 Texan
done up in a very convincing bare metal finish and finished off
in American markings. Seeing this humble little trainer makes
me day dream of all the great pilots that started off in the modest
little Harvard. |
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Colin Whitehouse
joins us with his 1/48 Revell Eurofighter Typhoon. Colin
has some interesting things to say about this kit and as you see in
his photos, this Typhoon from Revell really does build into a fine
looking model. Good to see it Colin and it's always good to
see your models on ARC. |
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Gökhan Eren
joins us from Turkey with his 1/72 Revell Sea King finished
off in markings for the RAF. This one of the bright yellow
rescue choppers and Gökhan did a fantastic job on it and finished
it off with a very well done diorama base. |
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Here
is a product announcement for the EA-6B Prowler VMAQ-3 Moon Dogs,
MD01 / 161244. MAG-14 - 2008 print from Deployment
Productions.This
print is available in 5 different sizes . Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
member! |
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Wednesday,
Dec 10
2008 |
Constitution Day in Thailand |
Sinking
of the HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse (1941) |
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Here's
the latest Hot
Babe of the Week!
photos from Twobobs.
Strike Eagles from MO courtesy of Todd Pearson. Todd's a
light Eagle driver from Mountain Home and an extremely talented
modeler. Thanks for the pics Todd! |
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Antonio "avalos01" Avalos
is here with something very special today. This is his
1/72 Trumpeter P-40B Warhawk
done up in the markings for one of the legendary Flying Tigers
aircraft. Antonio built his Flying Tiger OOB with beautifully
done weathering and a terrific diorama base and Flying Tigers
figure.
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Chris Causey
has been modeling the Vietnam era recently and this is his colorful 1/48 Monogram F-8E
Crusader
finished off in the markings for VF-62 Boomerangs during the Vietnam
War. Nicely done Chris.
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Rai
has been busy building the rare 1/48 Tamiya Hyakushiki Shitei III.
This is the Kai Air Defense Fighter that was designed as a
bomber interceptor aircraft with an upward firing gun. Read
Rai's article for the fully story behind this aircraft and how he
built this model.
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Ian
Foulkes, M.A.
has been busy using the Cammet Conversion set to create his 1/72 Airfix BAe
Nimrod 3rd AEW Prototype. Ian was quite impressed with
this conversion set and I must say his finished model does look very
cool.
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Here
is a product announcement for the F-14A Tomcat VF-41 Black Aces,
AJ100 / 160379. CVW-8, USS Nimitz CVN-68 - 1977 print from
Deployment
Productions. This
print is available in 5 different sizes . Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
member! |
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Tuesday,
Dec 9 2008 |
No update
today.....I'm taking the day off to spend with my family.
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Monday,
Dec 8 2008 |
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This
weeks Twobobs
Newsletter is up. Bob has all the instruction
sheets for the upcoming Vista F-16, Draken, Typhoon
sheets as well as the Press to Test F-16B sheet. Also
Bob has an updated list to the sheets he's got on sale for
$3. This list is shrinking fast so don't delay......for
$3 you can't loose. |
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Gökhan Eren dropped
by the ARC Corporate office in Turkey with his 1/72 Hasegawa TF-104 G.
This beautifully finished Starfighter is finished in Turkish Air
force markings and a carefully applied weathering and wash to give
his model a realistic look. |
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Serge Dompierre is
here with one of my favourite fighters from WW2......the colourful
bare metal Mustang. Serge's 1/48 Monogram P-51D is the
ever popular checkered nose Big Beautiful Doll. |
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Rafi Ben-Shahar has
done his usual first class job on his 1/32 Trumpeter Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a/U1.
Rafi has a mystery question in his article.....see if you can
figure out the answer. |
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Manuel Negri is
here with Part 3 of his 1/72 Tamiya F4u-1a Corsair.
Today Manuel explains how to create a diorama base for his south
Pacific American fighter aircraft. |
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Here
is a product announcement for the F-14A Tomcat
VF-41 Black Aces, AJ100 / 160379. CVW-8, USS Nimitz CVN-68 - 1977 print from
Deployment
Productions. This
print is available in 5 different sizes . Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community member! |
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Dec 7
2008 |
Pearl
Harbor - Attack on U.S. base 1941 |
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Dec 6
2008 |
Finland Independence Day |
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Friday,
Dec 5
2008 |
Thailand National Day (H.M. The King's Birthday) |
Russia
- Soviet winter counteroffensive under Moscow (1941) |
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Blackeyes
joins us from Thailand on the Thailand National Day with his 1/72 Hasegawa F-86D.
Blackeyes chose a bare metal paint scheme with out of print
decals that include Tiger noseart. A good looking Sabre Dog
and you can also see his other jets in his photos.
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enat
joins us today with the first of 2 of his articles to mark the
Thailand National Day. This is his 1/72 Fujimi A-7E Corsair
with a resin seat to dress up the cockpit and aftermarket decals
from Saim Scale decals for the Royal Thai Navy. Enat
gave his Corsair II a wash to highlight all the delicate recessed
detail. |
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enat joins
us with his carefully done 1/72 Airfix O-1 Bird Dog. Enat
gave his Bird Dog a slightly shaded look to the panel lines to make
his model look like the real thing. |
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Chuck Sawyer
has done an amazing amount of work on his big 1/32 Tamiya F-4J.
Wow Chuck has really done much extra work on his big Phantom and
the paint job is perfectly weathered for a USN jet. |
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Here
is a product announcement for the F-15C
Eagle 57th Wg, 65th Aggressor Squadron, AW/080010 - Nellis AFB, NV -
2007 print from
Deployment
Productions. This
print is available in 5 different sizes . Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community member! |
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Thursday,
Dec 4 2008 |
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Bruno Monti Colombani
starts your Thursday update with
his 1/48 Eduard Bell X-1. Bruno built this record
breaking manned missile out of the box with very nice results.
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Marcelo M. Irigoyen
is here from Argentina with his VERY big 1/16 Scratchbuilt Douglas A-4P Skyhawk.
This one is almost done and Marcelo tells about it in his article.
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Fabrizio Frassica
joins us today with his 1/48 Flying Machines Fiat G-50 bis.
This a multimedia kit with resin parts and photo etched detail set
by Eduard and I do like how the camo paint job looks.
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Georg Fuhrmann
is here another of his models with working lights. This is his
1/24 HLF 20/16 Fire Dept Bonn. This fire truck looks
exactly like the real truck and even included figures.
Fantastic Georg.
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Here
is a product announcement for the F-15C
Eagle 57th Wg, 65th Aggressor Squadron, AW/80-024 - Nellis AFB, NV -
2007 print from Deployment
Productions. This
print is available in 5 different sizes . Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
member! |
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Wednesday,
Dec 3 2008 |
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David Bey
has been busy doing up his 1/48 Hasegawa F-15J. David
added a resin cockpit, resin exhausts plus a number of other resin
items he cast himself to detail his Japanese F-15. Then he
finished it off with decals form Twobobs
to end up with quite the stunning
model.
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Adrian Koh
has mastered the tricky art of chipped and peeling paint.
This his 1/32 Tamiya A6M5 Zero Part - 1. Adrian explains his
technique in his article and in part 2 of his article he'll add the
weapons load etc.
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Pablo Calcaterra
has been busy getting things right on his 1/48 Revell CF-118.
This is an older and more challenging kit but Pablo
persisted. He added foil seatbelts and weathering before
finishing his CF-118 in Cougar Squadron markings.
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Andrew Taylor
has done an exceptional job on his 1/72 Revell T.S.A.R.C Sea King.
If you are planning on building a Sea King, then this article is
well worth reading. Andrew folded the tail and main rotor
blades, opened the crew door and added stairs and finished it off in
D-Day anniversary markings.
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Here is
a product announcement for the F-15C Eagle 57th Wg, 65th
Aggressor Squadron WA 080010 & WA 80-024 print from Deployment
Productions.
Remember 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
member! |
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Tuesday,
Dec 2 2008 |
Laos Proclamation of the Republic |
United Arab Emirates National Day |
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Cüneyt
ÖZEN has dropped by ARC today with this big beautiful 1/32
Tamiya F-4J. Cüneyt finished his Phantom in the markings
for VF-96 with the USN. This model has an excellent
weathering. |
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Serge
Dompierre is here with his baremetal 1/48 Monogram P-47D.
This is a model Serge built 25 years ago and painted with a
brush. I gotta' say it turned out very well and represents a
P-47 from 1944. |
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Ian
Buick is here with something we don't see very often. This
is his 1/72 ESCI Tu-22 in Iraqi markings. Ian had quite
the time with this model and he tells about the history of this
Iraqi jet and it's eventual end. |
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David
& Alexander Murphy have been busy building two 1/35
German African and Eastern Campaign Dioramas. These are
scenes full of all the tiny details that bring these dioramas to
life. Well done guys!!! |
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Monday,
Dec 1
2008 |
Romania National Day |
Central Africa National Day |
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Ion C. Tesu
is here to mark Romania's National Day with this stunning 1/32 Trumpeter MiG-21
Lancer. Ion used many different aftermarket detail items
and then finished off this Mig-21 in a beautiful camo paint
job and Romanian Air Force markings. |
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Roger Luk
is here with something completely different. This is his
1/24 Midwest Muscongus
Bay Lobster Smack. This model is made from micro-cut balsa
wood, basswood and mahogany wood parts; sail cloth, threads, blocks,
and brass wires. Nicely done Roger. |
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Fabian
Mario Vera is here with his 1/48 Hasegawa OA-4AR. This
is a conversion done with a resin nose and decals and finished in a
lo-viz gray paint scheme. I really liked how this 2 seater
turned out. |
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Rai
has been busy getting the finish right in this 1/48 Tamiya Hyakushiki
Shitei III. Kai explains the specs of this aircraft before
explaining how he got the paint chipped weathered finish looking so
good. |
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