Wednesday, June
30 2004
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I'm Baaaack!!!
The CD Classroom Yearbooks for my 2 daughters took most of my time during
the past month....and especially the past week with me working 18 hours a
day on them over the last 4 days. The CD's were eagerly received by
all the kids and parents....especially the families that got one last
year.
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Stefan
Szymanski begins our update today with
his beautifully
detailed and weathered 1/48
Academy Su-27 "Flanker". Stefan has definite
talent for weathering.
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Evgenij
Dedigurov is here today with his
1/72
AMODEL Sukhoi T-4 "Sotka".
This is a very interesting Cold War
bomber design....with a great
looking job on the bare metal finish.
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Friday, June 25 2004
Mozambique Independence Day |
Croatia Independence Day
Slovenia National Day |
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J.C.
Bahr
begins today's
update with his 1/72
Hasegawa F-16C Block
52 "Apollyon".
J.C. made his own conformal fuel tanks and he details this process in
his article. Then he finished off his F-16 in Greek
markings.....beauty!!
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David M.
Reinecke is here
with his first article on ARC. This is David's 1/48 Tamiya Dornier
Do-335A that he weathered to add realism. A very nice
example of this famous 2 engined fighter.....welcome to ARC David.
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Mark
Davies joins us
from New Zealand with his
colourful
1/72
Airfix Fouga Magister.
Mark
finished his Fouga Magister in the marking of an New Zealand
jet. Definately colourful markings...nice one Mark.
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Thursday, June
24 2004 Order of Malta
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St.
John's Day
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No update
today....but after 19 hours of work on Wednesday I did manage to finish a
pre-production CD for the second class. I now have completed the
rough copies for each of the two classes. I now hand these off to
the teachers to get text telling about each field trip and classroom
event. I now have to learn how to use a new device and program I
bought for transferring hi-8 video to a computer file. This will get
added to the CD's next. Regarding the second CD.....it
measured in at a fat 1.6gig.....a CD only holds .7 gig max....so I had to
compress the photos here and there to get things to fit. I finally
got it down to .652 gigs. I'm not sure but I guessing the CD for
this one class has 1200 to 1500 photos. :-) INSANE!!!
;-)
Thanks for
your understanding.....I do sadly miss doing the ARC updates.
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Wednesday, June
23 2004 Luxembourg National
Day
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I'm in the
midst of the frantic time of the year as I create the Classroom Yearbook
CD for each of my 2 young daughters elementary school classes. All
during the school year I have attended all fieldtrips and classroom
parties and shot photos of those events as well as the kids artwork in the
school hallway etc, etc. On top of that I have shot video. Now
I am taking the 1500 photos (750 per class) and various clips of video and
sorting through it all and creating a website on a CD. Once
finished, I will burn a copy for each child and hand them out on the last
day of school next Tuesday. On Monday I worked on this from 9am
until 3am the following morning...19 hours....and this is why there was no
update on Tuesday. This is my little way to preserve some memories
for my daughters and their classmates in these early years. And the
cost to the other parents......$4...which is the cost of the re-writable
CD and a label. Needless to say.....it is popular.
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Keith
Money likes to
build 1/32. Then he decided to build a
1/72
ESCI
A-7E Corsair II
but detail it up like a 1/32 model. His finished
1/72 A-7 is the fantastic results of his efforts.
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Anthony
Manzoli is a master at
building Bf-109's. This is his
1/48
Hasegawa Bf-109G-6/R6 done up with his usual skill at airbrushing and
weathering.
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Graham
Symmonds
is here with his
very attractive 1/48
Sword T-38A Talon done
up in Aggressor markings from Twobobs. You've got to check out
the seats in this one....great looking seatbelt detail.
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Tuesday, June
22 2004
No update today.
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Monday, June
21 2004
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There will be a VNAF
Model Aircraft Exhibition in Westminister California on Saturday
July 3. Click on the picture to the left of the text hyperlink
for full details.
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Massimo
Giugnoli
is here from Italy with
his first article on ARC. This is Massimo's
1/48
Hasegawa Me-109
G6/U3
finished
off in Italian markings. The model and
diorama base are beautifully done. Welcome to ARC
Massimo!!!
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Rui Morgado
is
here with his first article on ARC. This is Rui's
1/48 Hasegawa
SH-3H "SeaKing". Rui put plenty of work into his
SeaKing as you will see when you check out his article. Great
photos as well. Welcome to ARC Rui!!!
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Sebastijan
"Doctor Tomcat" Videc is here today with his 1/72
Hasegawa F-14B Tomcat. Sebastijan finished off his F-14 in
markings for VF-103 Sluggers. He used a resin cockpit and
weathered his F-14....very nice indeed.
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Gary Wickham is
a master of Aircraft
Panel Lines and today he's here with his Step-By-Step Guide to
doing panel line weathering. Well done Gary.
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Sunday, June
20 2004
Happy Father's Day!!!
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Nathan
Slesinger begins
today's update with his beautufully painted 1/72
Hasegawa Su-27. Nathan used Cutting Edge Decals to finish
his very striking Su-27. It's great to see these complicated
paint schemes.
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J.C.
Bahr is here with a
very attractive 1/72
Hasegawa F4F-3.
JC goes into lovely detail about building one of these colorful
pre-war Wildcats. Very nice indeed.
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Jojo
B Cruz has dropped
by with his Hasegawa
Egg-16. It seems this particular model impressed Jojo's
wife.....gotta' love a wife that appreciates a model like
this.....these Egg models are pretty cool.
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Saturday, June
19 2004
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Polly
Singh begins
today's update with his
1/48
Tamiya Nakajima Ki 84 Hayate.
You have to check out the paint scheme on this one and read how Polly
achieved his results....very
interesting.
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Les Horvath has
dropped by with his very nicely weathered
1/48
Monogram F-105G Wild
Weasel. Les has provided some very informative text in his
article about how he did the weathered paint scheme on his Thud.
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Friday, June
18 2004
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My heart is heavy today
with the passing of our friend Kent Kinal. I'd like to share my
story remembering Kent ....he helped so many people in a very
positive way and he will always be remembered by me..
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Tori
is the daughter of an ARC regular. today she presents her first
article on ARC. This is her 1/100th
Testors F-15 Eagle for your enjoyment. I quite enjoyed
seeing Tori's F-15 and look forward to seeing her next model on
ARC. Welcome to ARC Tori.
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Geoff
Pereira is here
with his 1/48
Academy P-47N. Geoff finished his P-47 is a bare metal
finish and used some aftermarket decals. The P-47 is a
favourite aircraft from WW2 and it a pleasure to see Geoff's Jug on
ARC today.
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Bob
Aikens is here with
2 of his F-16's. Here is Bob's
1/48
Italeri F-16C & F-16B/D with one finished in IDF markings
and a very aggressive looking camo scheme. Nicely done
F-16's Bob.
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Erik
Wauters has dropped
by with his little brightly coloured
1/72
Revell Fokker Dr. I. this Tri-plane is a popular choice for
ww1 modellers and Erik did it justice.
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Igor Cernisevski has dropped by with his high altitude 1/72
Italeri Spitfire Mk.IX. he
calls his article "High
Flyer" and in his article he includes some helpful info about
these stripped down Spitfires.
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Charles
Wong is here with
some F-16D
RSAF walkaround
photos.
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Thursday, June
17 2004
Iceland
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I got my
computer back late Wednesday evening. The problem was a cheap
fix....CDN$65......it seems the little 'watch' battery in my P-3 was
dead....this re-set all my monitor settings to default.....and since I
have a special monitor set-up ....it caused my computer to appear very
dead. One of the 2 CPU fans was also making noise so they replaced
that was well. Updates
begin Friday. I'd like
to extend a very special thank-you for all your offers of
support.......the ARC family was front in center offering much
support.....thanks everyone!!!! It looks like I can keep my
trusty ol' P-3 for a few more years at least. It does all I need it
to do. As a side note......I've been busy the last few days
attending class events with my daughters and doing piles of
woodworking......I'm making shelves etc to organize my new ARC work area
in my cool basement.
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Monday, June
14 2004 United
Kingdom
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My main
computer I use for ARC has died. It appears to be either a fried CPU
or motherboard. I will be taking it into a Tech on Tuesday for
assessment and then I'll probably begin the task of giving it some very
serious upgrading. I'm unable to update ARC because all the ARC
files are stored on the dead machine's hard drives.....the data is
safe....but a bit tied up. It may be a few days before I get this
sorted out. My apologies.
Steve B.
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Sunday, June
13 2004
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Manuel
J. Armas S. begins
today's update with his 1/48
Italeri EF2000. Manuel finished
his very well done EF2000 in German markings.
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Jon Ochoa
joins us today with
his 1/48
Revell Me-109G-10. Jon dropped the flaps and custom painted
his markings. Nice one Jon.
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Sam
Harvey is here today with his
1/48
Italeri Mirage 2000C. Sam used Twobobs decals to finish his
great looking Mirage 2000.
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Saturday, June
12 2004 Philippines
Independence
Day Russia National Day
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Today's
update is a bit late.....I had some computer problems to deal with.
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Jonjon
Limjap joins us on this
special day from IPMS-Philippines,
Bert Anido Chapter.
This is Jonjon's 1/72
Kangnam Vought F-8E Crusader (modified to F-8H) and finished in Philippines
Air Force markings. Welcome To ARC Jonjon.
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Edmond
Dalida is also a member of
the IPMS-Philippines,
Bert Anido Chapter
and his model for this
special day is his
1/72
Revell F-5B in
"Philippine Air Force" markings.
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Mark
Davies is here from
New Zealand with his
1/72
Academy Vought Corsair IV.
Mark finished his Corsair in the
markings for British Fleet Air Arm. Nice one Mark.......always
interesting to see non-US markings on Corsairs.
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Friday, June
11 2004
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Haik
Martirossian gets
thing started today with a colourful selection of his airliner
models. This is his
1/144
Revell A330 and RJ-85.
Haik has a talent for airliner models.
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Christian
Curec is here
from Romania
with his 1/48
Revell Me-109 G10 which
he weathered to get that realistic look. Christian did a very
good job on the difficult Luftwaffe paint scheme.
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Thang
Le is here with his latest. This is
Thang's 1/48
Monogram Crusader with
darkened panel lines and weathering as well as an attractive paint
scheme.
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Tolga
Ulgur has been busy building his 1/48
Tamiya Spitfire Mk XII which
he converted from
Tamiya Mk.V. This one has a great looking cockpit and painting /
weathering job done to it.
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Thursday, June
10 2004
Portugal National
Day
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Dave
'Merlin' Burrow is
here to honour Portugal today with
his 1/72
Italeri EH101 finished off in 'Portugese' markings.
Dave finished his good looking EH-101 in an attractive 3 colour camo
scheme. Nice one Dave.
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Mike
Wood is here for
the first time today. This is Mike's
1/48
Monogram F-100D in a bare metal finish. Mike did a very
impressive job on his BMF and the darkened area at the rear of the
fuselage. Welcome to ARC Mike.
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Marcius
Cesar Costa is here
from Brazil with his
1/72
Academy P-47 diorama.
Marcius has included vehicles and figures in his diorama. Always
good to see those Brazilian P-47's.
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Gary
Wickham kicks off
today's update with his big article on his
1/48
Revell Rafale M. Gary has been busy on his Rafale and
I think you'll all enjoy seeing how it turned out.
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Wednesday, June
9 2004
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IPMS
St. Louis is having a
Swap and Sell on June 19 Click
here for more details.
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Praveen
KS is here from
India with his 1/48
Academy MiG-21 PF. This is Praveen's second article on ARC
and he chose to do his MiG in Egyptian Air Force markings.
Good looking miG-21 Praveen.
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Chris Crowder is here
today with his 1/48
Hasegawa Ju-88G6c. The paint scheme on this one has to be
seen to be believed....amazing skill.
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Manuel
J. Armas S. is here with his nicely
weathered 1/48
Revell Monogram F-4J Phantom II. This
is the famous MIG ACE from Vietnam called "Showtime 100".
Good to see this particular aircraft done so well.
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Tuesday, June
8 2004
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I'm
pleased to welcome a new ARC sponsor to the home page today.
They are Hobbyeasy based out
of Hong Kong. They carry a large variety of model related
items. In the top left
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corner of their website, you
can choose to display the prices on their website in any currency.
Welcome to ARC Hobbyeasy!!!
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Steve Dzurek is
here with his first article on ARC. You know him as <BARAK>
on the ARC
Discussion Forums and this is his
1/32
Revell Mosquito. He added resin details to the inside and
outside of his big Mosquito and finished it off with a beautiful
looking camo scheme. Welcome to ARC Steve!!!
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Marco A. Ortiz Rivera
is here with his first article on ARC. Today he shows us 4 of
his profile images of
A-4's
from Argentina and Brazil.
Very nicely done Marco....welcome to ARC!!
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Jorge Bonilla Alvarado
has dropped by with his well done and
realistically weathered 1/48
MiG-3. This is a fine
example of this famous WW2 aircraft.
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Polly Singh
has dropped by with
his 1/48
Hobbycraft Bf 109 E that he converted into G-2/F-4/TROP flown by
the famous Luftwaffe pilot Marseille. A fine conversion of a
great look aircraft.
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Ted
Taylor is here with
the most famous 1/48
Italeri/ESCI S-3A/B Viking to ever fly. This is the NAVY 1 Sub Hunter
aircraft flown by US President Bush. Ted does this one
justice.
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Monday, June
7 2004 US
Carrier Yorktown sunk (1942) |
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No update today......I'm
taking a day off to rest.
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Sunday, June 6 2004
Sweden National
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Operation Overlord....the
D-day landing happened 60 years ago today. This was a massive
operation. Today's updates is massive to help you reflect on the
scale of Operation Overlord. Special thanks to today's contributors
for making this possible. First I'll begin with 2 models to honour
Sweden on her special day.
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Mark
J Davies is here to
honour Sweden with his 1/72
Heller Saab J 21.
This is an odd looking prop aircraft that reminds me very much of the
twin boom jets used by the British and others.
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Mark Davies
is here with his second Swedish aircraft model for today's
update. This is mark's
1/72
Heller Saab J 32 B Lansen and
he goes into some good detail in his article about building his J-32
model.
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Tom
Choy put so
much work into this D-day update.....and I wanted to begin
with his D-day article. this is his 1/48
ICM Spitfire Mk.VII....very
nicely done Tom....thanks for all your help.
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The
Indonesian Scale Model Society (ISMS)
has been busy with their D-Day
groupbuild
and today they present 13
different models to mark D-day. Enjoy.
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Giuseppe
Penna is here with
his 1/48
Tamiya P-47. I love the checker board paint scheme.
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Ed
Barthelmes has sent in his
1/72
Italeri A-6E in
a special D-day paint scheme. A treat to see Ed.
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Don
Russell is here with his 1/72
Italeri C-47.
this aircraft was critical in Operation Overlord. Beautifully
Done Don.
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James Kelley
is here with his 1/72
Tamiya P-47D done up in artwork he calls Normandy
Dawn.
James has included 2 of his images.
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Shekar K Rao is
here with his 1/72
Academy P-51B Mustang 'Old
Crow', flown by Capt. Clarence E. 'Bud' Anderson, D-Day 6th June 1944.
Another famous aircraft.
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Leander Niederhauser is
here with his 1/48
Tamiya P-47D Thunderbolt.
Leander gave it a bare metal finish, weathering and chipped paint on
the anti glare panel. A very realistic looking P-47.
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Greg Wise is
here with his Hasegawa
P-51D Mustang.
This Mustang is masterfully done......but the photos are
fantastic.
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Ted Taylor is
here with his AMT
A-20J Havoc in
D-day markings. Another beauty Ted.
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Mike Boyd is
here with some C-47A
walkaround photos
in D-Day markings.
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Saturday, June 5 2004
Denmark
Constitutional Day |
Seychelles Liberation Day |
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Timothy
Pham is here with
his first article on ARC. This is Timothy's
1/72
Italeri VNAF AC-119K
Gunship which he weathered very nicely to give it that well used
look. Nice one Timothy....welcome to ARC.
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Mark
Davies is here with
an odd looking little aircraft.
This is his
1/72
ICM Polikarpov I-1 (Il-400b)
which is a Soviet
fighter from the 1920's. Mark built it in a couple of days and
even scratch built some detail items for it. An interesting and
well done model to be sure.
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Craig Sargent
is here with his
1/72
Hasegawa Spitfire IXc
which he finished as Israel's
First Spitfire.
Craig has provided some history behind this very interesting and
historically important Spitfire. It is a treat to see this spitfire on
ARC.
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Emad
F.Tabsh has sent in
a review of the 1/32
GBU-31 from Black Box.
Emad's review includes 3 images.
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Friday, June
4 2004
Battle of Midway
(1942)
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David
Fredericks joins us today
with his 1/72
Special Hobby RAAF
Vultee Vengeance.
This is a limited run kit and was an aircraft use by the RAAF during
WW2. Dave has created a beautiful example and you must have a
look at the nose art.......quite funny.
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Steve
Filak, Sr.....one of
the original creators of ARC......is here today with his
1/48
Academy F-14A. Steve finished his Tomcat in VF-84
Jolly Rogers (Early TPS Scheme).
but you have to check out his patchy paint scheme....this is exactly what
USN aircraft look like.
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Bobby McElroy
is here with his
1/72
Hasegawa
Nakajima Ki-44
Shoki “Tojo”.
Bobby has a talent for weathering and paint chipping as you'll see on his
Ki-44. Bobby is a teacher and has set up a scale modeling club at his
school for the students. Well done Bobby!!!
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Juan Ramon Garcia Martin has
dropped by from Spain with his latest model. This is Juan's
1/72
Revell Tornado in
Royal Saudi Air Force markings. The camo scheme and weathering
are amazingly well done......remember this is 1/72!!!
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A reminder.....Ming Ho
has created and loaded the June
2004 Calendar
images.
This months calendar image is a French Mirage photo taken by ARC
regular Bill Bulek at the recent Maple Flag in Canada.
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Thursday, June
3 2004
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Marcius
Cesar Costa begins
today's update with his 1/72
GIIC Models EMB 111 in Brazilian markings. This is a very
well done model of this resin kit.
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Haik
Martirossian has
been busy. He is here today with his
1/144
Revell Airbus A321 which he added functioning lights to.
Haik has a talent for lighting up his small airliners. And
yes....the light that are supposed to flash do indeed flash.
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Daniel
PerezVertti has
been busy creating his 1/72
Italeri F-5E Tunisian Tiger. Daniel did some modifications
to his F-5 to get thing correct for his Tunisian F-5, then finished it
off with a quite interesting camo scheme.
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Wednesday, June
2 2004
Italy
National
Day
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Gianni
Chirico is here
from Italy to mark Italy's National Day in 2004 with his
1/72
Hasegawa P-47D. Gianni did a excellent job on his
bare metal finish and weathering on his P-47.
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Giuseppe
Penna is here from
Italy to mark Italy's National Day in 2004 with his
1/48
P-39 Airacobra. Giuseppe finished his P-39 in Yellow cab NYC
markings.
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Andrew
George is
here with his 1/48
Italeri Bell 206B / OH-58A Kiowa in Australian markings.
This particular Aussie chopper served in Vietnam. Andrew did a
great job detailing and finishing this model.
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Manuel
J. Armas S. has
dropped by from Lima Peru with his
1/48
Academy F-15E Strike Eagle. Manuel gave his Strike Eagle a
full weapons load and finished it off with Twobobs decals. Good
looking F-15 Manuel.
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Neil
Burkill (AKA Mr Paragon)
is here with his 1/72
Tamiya Mosquito FB VI . Neil
finished off his Mosquito with a realistic weathering job.
Beautiful as always Neil.
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Ming Ho is
here with the June
2004 Calendar
images.
This months calendar image is a French Mirage photo taken by ARC
regular Bill Bulek at the recent Maple Flag in Canada.
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Tuesday, June 1 2004
Western
Samoa Independence Celebration Day
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James
Griffiths begins today's update with his first article on ARC.
this is Jim's 1/48
Revell F-14D Tomcat
which
he put much effort into and ended up with a splendid looking
Tomcat. Check out his weathering job. Welcome to ARC Jim.
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Jim
Sullivan is here
with his first article on ARC today. This is Jim's neat looking
1/72
Heller SAAB J-21R. I must confess I've never heard of this
older SAAB and it's a treat to see it......especially in Swedish
marking. welcome to ARC Jim.
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Paulo
Guimarães has dropped by with an article
that is sure to make the Chopper crowd grin. This is his
1/72
Italeri UH-1C Gunship and
Paulo includes some history of his SEA chopper. Always good to
see Helo's on ARC.
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quick note on the archiving on ARC. Last weekend went well and
I've managed to archive most of the review articles and all of the
walkarounds....which was about 1/3rd of the backlogged
archiving. I'll continue to poke away at it.
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