Monday, Jan
31 2005
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I'm baaaaack!!!
Things are getting back to normal and today is the beginning of regular
daily updates. I'd like to thank everyone for your support
during this difficult time. I'm doing well.
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Steve
Bridges joins
us for the first time today. This is the first installment of
his excellent On
line build of
the new 1/32 Tamiya
F-16CJ
Fighting Falcon Part.1.
Twobobs has some new sheets available for this big Viper.
Welcome to ARC Steve!!!
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Gary Crocker joins
us for the first time today.
These are Gary's 1/32
Williams Bros. Racers with a perfect high gloss bush painted
finish. I wish I knew how Gary does this. Beautiful
stuff!!! Welcome to ARC Gary!!!
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Ercument Sarikaya
joins us for the
first time today. I'm pleased to present his 1/68
Cardboard model Airbus
320-200. I was impressed when I read his article and looked
closer at his photos. There is a fair amount of skill and effort
that went into this Airbus model. Welcome to ARC Ercument!!!
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Tomas
Juriga joins
us with his first article on ARC. This is his highly detailed
1/48
Tamiya P-51D Mustang. Tomas put a pile of effort into his
mustang and I'm sure you'll enjoy seeing it. Welcome to ARC
Thomas!!!
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Thursday, Jan
27 2005
Russia End of Leningrad
blockade
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Wednesday, Jan
26 2005 Australia Day
India
Republic Day
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Murli Rajan
begins today's special update with his 1/72 Italeri
Mil Mi 35 Hind. His Hind is finished in a colourful
camo pattern, which I much prefer over the North American camo colours.
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Rupesh
Santoshi is here
with his first of 2 articles in honour of India. First up is his
1/72
Eastern Express Mig 21-93. He built this brightly coloured
MiG for his wife. In his article you'll find plenty of info
about Indian MiG-21's. Colour birds always look good.
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David
Thompson joins us
from downunder to represent and honour Australia on it's special
Day. This is David's
1/72
Academy Korean Mustang done up in a bare metal finish with some
gun powder weathering.
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Murli
Rajan is here with
his second article today. This is his
1/72 Academy
Mig 23 which is the second kit he built. Once again it
sports one of those attractive Indian camo patterns.
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Murli
Rajan also has a prop article in Indian
markings. This is his 1/72
Italeri Douglas Dakota C-47 which is heavily weathered dirty old
plane. Well done Murli.
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Murli Rajan
is also here with his
1/72
Tamiya Sepecat Jaguar. Murli has provided a very enjoyable
selection of some of the aircraft used by the Indian Air Force. It's
good to see some of the more modern jets used by the IAF.
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Murli
Rajan ends
today's update with his 1/72
T-72. Although this is an armour model.....it is a T-72 with
the Indian Armed Forces.
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Monday, Jan
24 2005
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I arrived
home late Sunday night after many hours of travel. My Dad's funeral
on Wednesday in the UK was a very warm, close service and my
presence and Eulogy
was of great comfort to my Mom. I think I'll need one more week to
sort through the many weeks of e-mails and begin putting content together
for ARC and recover from Jet lag and most importantly....spend time with
my wife and daughters. I'm doing very well and look forward to
getting ARC back on track. I will do a small update for Australia Day this
Wednesday and will get the TPC back to normal starting today.
Thanks for all your support and patience everyone!!! Steve
B
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Monday, Jan
10 2005
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My Dad
passed away peacefully on early Sunday morning with my Mom and myself by
his side holding his hands, while I gave him constant verbal reassurance
in his final moments that "everyone will be OK and he doesn't have to
worry". I will be flying home on Tuesday to the west coast of
Canada from the UK to spend time with my wife and daughters....another
family member from Europe will be taking my place by my Mom's side in the
UK. I will return to England on this Saturday after a few days of
rest to assist and participate in the services for my Dad. I will
then return his ashes to Canada a few days later for a service at a later
date in Canada among his children where he will finally be laid to
rest. I would like to thank everyone for your prayers and warm
thoughts for my Dad......because of you, he was spared the majority of the
cancer pain that we feared he would have had and his passing was peaceful
and among his family. I could not have asked for a more merciful and
loving passing. He will be missed by many people.
Updates
will continue, but first I need to take some time off to get my emotional
balance and care for grieving members of my extended family and tend to
affairs in the UK and Canada.
On a more
positive note.....I did catch up on the back-log of gallery archiving
during quiet times during my stay in the UK and will upload all that work
from my laptop to ARC once I get home to my high speed connection.
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Nguyen
Trong Duc joins us
from Vietnam with his
1/32
Academy F-18. Duc did his big Hornet as a US Navy bird
with all the grimy weathering you'd see on the full sized plane.
Outstanding.
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Evgeny
Dedigurov is here with his 1/72
Zvezda Kamov KA-27 PS.
If this was a 1/48 scale model the detail would be very impressive....but
this is 1/72 and the detail is amazingly well done. Being
Canadian......I enjoyed seeing the polar bear artwork on the side of
the fuselage.
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J.C.
Bahr finishes
today's update with his
1/72
AMT F-100F Wild Weasel.
J.C. has included some very interesting text in his article about the
history of this type of aircraft.
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Saturday, Jan
8 2005
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Dan's
Mon-Key has left the building....Haz Mat crews have been called.
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Friday, Jan
7 2005
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Bamford
has been wandering around London.....in search of pubs. Today's weather
forecast in England is "Cold and Damp and Windy". Dan's
Mon-Key
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Alvis
3.1 has been busy
with his Saulino
Frapit Earwig. This aircraft has quite the amusing future
history in a war against the US.
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Jean
is here with a selection of Egg
Planes. All of the egg planes in this article are quite
amusing......including a WW1 Tri-plane.
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Wild
Bill tells the tale
of when he scammed a 1/32 scale F-18 from his girlfriend.
Read about his tiny
1/350
Trumpeter Wildcat and maybe you can use his trick to acquire an
expensive kit from your girlfriend. Bill's girlfriend eventually
got a expensive ring from Bill.
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John
Green has his 1/72
Matchbox Starfighter F1 done
up in an RAF scheme. Rumour has it these planes didn't actually
exist......but who can say.
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Thursday, Jan
6 2005
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Today's weather
forecast in England is "Damp and more cold". Dan's
Mon-Key
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Phil
Peterson is here
with some little known history of the IDAF Me-262 program.
Phil enhances his
historical article with some photos of his 1/72
Israeli S-92. IDAF officials have been unavailable for
comment.
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Todd 'Toad' Pomerleau
is here with his Bluebird
and the Pink lady made
from the 1/72
Monogram SR-71s. Yet another example of pink RAF recon
aircraft.
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Alvis 3.1 finishes things off today with
his Nakajima
Ki-84 Hayate In French Service.
I have been unable to confirm the historical accuracy of this
article.....but Alvis 3.1 assures me his research is accurate.
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Wednesday, Jan
5 2005
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Bamford
has discovered yet another pub..... Today's weather
forecast in England is "Cold and Damp". Dan's
Mon-Key
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Wild
Bill begins today
with top secret photos of the latest designs from Boeing.
Some people would
call this the Hasegawa
ANA Eggplane, but I know better.....I can spot prototype design
models when I see them. Rumour has it that Airbus leaked this
design to Boeing.
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John
Green is very
active building his amour. Today he presents his 1/72
Hasegawa Wirbelwind.....yup....try to say Wirbelwind
ten times quickly.
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Zdenko has
let he creative side free and created his
1/35
Still Art. Look carefully and you'll see a crashed plane on
this south sea Isle.
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Tuesday, Jan
4 2005 Union
of Myanmar Independence Day
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Today's weather
forecast in England is "Cold and Damp". Dan's
Mon-Key
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Andy
Gudbergsson is here
with his Germans
on the move diorama. If you're doing a winter
diorama.....make sure the shadows are long.....very nice attention to
detail
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John
Green has been busy building a tiny
1/43
K&R Replicas Escort RS2000. Yikes....John
installed the steering wheel on the wrong side!!!....oh....wait a
minute...maybe not......
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Monday, Jan
3 2005
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Bamford has been
seen doing his torch juggling act outside pubs for spare change in an effort
to afford the prices of beer in England. Today's weather
forecast in England is "Cold and Damp". Scotland got
snow.....considering their weather....they may as well move to Canada.
Dan's Mon-Key
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Mark
Jahsan is here with
his Nice
Pair of 38's. This particular aircraft design was used
extensively in the European theatre and the Luftwaffe pilot's so
feared it that they called it the "Triple
Tailed Devil".
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Todd
Pomerleau has been
busy with his 1/48
Monogram F-14D and F-18....I'm not sure how you say
"Tomcat" in German......but you can bet if is something long
such as "stray male alley cat air superiority fighter jet".
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Sunday, Jan
2 2005
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In an
attempt to cut costs on Bamford's ARC Visa card..........I've held a few
parties in the ARC corporate offices.....but Bamford's VISA card is now
maxed out. According to sources in England.....Bamford has been
getting drunk each night and sleeping things off in the drunk tank at the
local police station to save money on hotels. Today's weather
forecast in England is "Cold and Damp". Dan's
Mon-Key
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Brady is
here with his top secret story about the
The
Ilyushin IL-53V Vikingski. Alvis
3.1
has been researching this story for over a year, including many
interviews with exotic dancers in Moscow in attempts to collect top
secret government information. There's an Iranian connection.
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Andy
Gudbergsson was
feeling too lazy to properly detail his Chevy
truck diorama......so he built it without
half the parts. He also dropped the model more than once
resulting in a dented roof. His attempts to win a trophy in the
out-of-the-box category have been unseccessful.
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John
Green finishes
things off today with his
1/72
Airfix Northrop Tiger II. There
will no doubt be a huge debate about the accuracy of this model
on the Hyperscale forums........but
John sticks by his Beer enhanced research techniques at his local pub.
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Saturday, Jan
1 2005
Cuba
Anniversary of the Revolution |
Haiti Independence Day
Sudan
Independence Day
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Operation
Bodenplott -- Luftwaffe
attack against Allied Airfields (1945) |
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Bamford's
away drinking himself silly in the land of endless rain......let the
mayhem begin!!!
Today's weather forecast in England is "Cold and Damp".
Dan's
Mon-Key
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Alvis 3.1
kicks off silly Week with his Operation
Kute Kitty: Progress
Report.
Ever wonder what happens when I (Dan's Mon-key) design a Space
shuttle? Be afraid....be very afraid!!!
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Iwan
Winarta is here
with his The
Black Dragon. Quite a few
of you will think this is a figure of your Mother-inlaw. If you
were superior like me you wouldn't have a mother-inlaw.....just chimp
babes.
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