Friday,
Sept 30
2005
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QC
Tan begins today with his
1/48
F-16 Thunderbird Ejection. We've all
seen the video of the ejection of the pilot from his Thunderbird
F-16.....well here's a diorama of the event. Very well done
QC.
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Leonardo Novelli Krause
is here with something a bit different
and definitely attractive. This is his
1/8 Rey Ayanami Resin Kit.
I can see the attraction of figure modelling.
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Thursday,
Sept 29
2005
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Bill Lachance begins
today with his 1/48 Monogram P-61A Black Widow.
Bill is not scared off by older kits and this latest model is a treat
for the eyes. Bill has included cockpit photos in his article.
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Raymond Chung
is here with his first article on ARC. This is Raymond's
1/32 Academy F-16CJ,
which Raymond enjoyed building very much. the finished model
ended up looking very good. Welcome to ARC Raymond!!!
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Brian James Riedel
joins us with his
1/48 Hasegawa Me-109F4-B
that he built a while back. Brian added some extra details to
improve upon the kit details and to give him a very fine
model.
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Gianmaria Corona
has been busy
building and detailing the
1/72 MPM Hawker Sea Hawk.
Although this isn't the best kit in the world.....Gianmaria build a
beautiful model of this attractive British aircraft.
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Gordon R.
Page has a new book
out called Warbird
Recovery The
Hunt for a Rare WWII Plane in Siberia, Russia. Gordon had to deal
with the KGB and Mafia and ultimately melted a historic plane out of a
frozen lake in Russia.
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Mike
Williams is here
with some of his Victor
Walk Around photos.
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Wednesday,
Sept 28
2005
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An ARC regular has sent me
a couple of website links to assist you with preparing for
disasters. If you live in an area that is prone to a natural
disaster....you may want to ponder some preparation.
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Dan Duna
is here to begin
today with another of his scratchbuilt wonders. This is his
1/72 Heinkel He1078A
complete in a bare metal finish.
Dan's ability to build these gems so quickly leave me in awe.
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Colin Whitehouse
joins us with
his well done
1/48 Heller Mirage IV.
Colin gives some background on this one way nuclear bomber.
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Leonardo Novelli Krause
joins us with a
well written historical article about one of the valiant Polish pilots
from WW2. He has also included his 1/72 Revell P-51 Mustang III
R.A.F.
that was flown by this pilot.
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Dean Large
is here with a tiny
little
1/144 Revell F-15
that he built for a
friend. Dean did an excellent job on this little
beauty.....including darkening the panel lines.
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Tuesday,
Sept 27
2005
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I'm using
my new computer and it runs excellently. I've still got a week or so
of sorting to do before I'm back up to speed, but I can start up daily
updates beginning today. Thanks for your patience everyone.....it is
much appreciated.
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Franck Oudin
begins today with
his 1/48 Hasegawa P40-E.
Franck did his usual first class job on this P-40.
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Saturday,
Sept 24 2005
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Good
news!! The new
custom built machine is installed and running like a dream. I'm
spending the weekend downloading a fresh copy of ARC to my hard drive in
the new machine and setting up programs etc. while the computer is
downloading ARC......I'm busy in my workshop building various
modifications to my ARC desk. This desk is a big 4 sided desk 7' by
8' with a tiny gap to get to the centre and is made out of plywood and
2x4's. As I evolve the design of the desk I will finally get it
perfect.....then I plan to build a duplicate desk out of proper
materials. This is a evolution that will probably take another 6 to
12 months. On Friday I built the 4th side to this monster desk to
provide me with increased workspace and a possible workspace to build
models with my daughters. Today I'll be making a custom keyboard
drawer and additional 2 drawers for my 2 scanners so they can get off the
desk top and into slide out drawers under the desktop. I also need
to build a shelf unit to go above my monitors to hold such things as a
printer and fax machine, but I doubt I'll get it all done today.
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Wednesday,
Sept 21 2005
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I
bought a computer off the shelf and began adding extra hardware to
it
(I bought a ready made machine in an effort to get up and running
sooner). This machine got slower and slower as I added the hardware
and programs to make it capable of doing what I need to work on ARC.
After 4 days of mucking about with it, I had reached the point of having a
completely useless new computer that was locking up constantly and was
unable to even download e-mails. The e-mail glitch was due to
the fact this was a returned machine......no wonder I got a
"deal" on it. I removed my extra hardware last
night and deleted all the programs and returned it. I'm off to
a different computer store this morning to get them to custom make me a
machine.....this store builds for "gamers", so I'm confident
they can meet my needs. Sorry
for the delay everyone.
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Friday,
Sept 15 2005
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My main
hard drive on my ARC computer has stopped working. As this is the
4th hard drive failure this year.......I will be looking into replacing my
5 year old P-3 computer with a new custom
built machine that I hope will be much more stable. I have endured
enough aggravation with this 5 year old computer.
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Thursday,
Sept 15 2005
Battle of Britain Day |
Costa Rica Independence Day
El
Salvador Independence Day |
Guatemala Independence Day
Honduras Independence Day |
Nicaragua Independence Day |
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Chris Swingler
starts
this special Battle
of Britain Day with his big 1/24 Airfix Spitfire Mk1a.
During the Summer of 1940, the RAF flew Mk 1 Spitfires much like this
one.
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Dan Farnham
starts today with his Battle of Britain
1/48 Tamiya Bf-109E-4.
Dan used the very nice Tamiya kit and ended up with a very well done
replica of the 109's in this epic battle.
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Tolga Ulgur
joins us with his beautifully done 1/48 Hasegawa F-86 Mk 4.
Tolga used some aftermarket items from Aires to add to the detail on
his F-86 and then he finished it in RAF markings.
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Lior Bercu
is here with his
1/48 Hasegawa British Phantom FGR Mk.2.
Lior did quite a bit of experimenting with new techniques he learned
on ARC and this gavew him excellent results on his British
Phantom.
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Karl W Branson
joins
us with his 1/72
Airfix Avro Vulcan B Mk2. Karl
did an outstanding job on his Vulcan and followed it up with equally
well done photos.
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Wednesday,
Sept 14 2005 |
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Thomas Neuss
joins us with his OUTSTANDING 1/72 Italeri HH-60H Rescue Hawk.
If
this was 1/48...the detail level and quality of the weathering and
painting would be very impressive....but to achieve this in 1/72 is
amazing. But Thomas is an outstanding modeller.
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Busolini Massimo
is
here with his
1/48 Trumpeter Mig-15uti.
Busolini went to extra effort to enhance the
baremetal finish on his Mig and his efforts paid off. He then
finished in in markings for the Pakistani Air force.
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Eugene Trapezontas
joins
us from Grece with his 1/72 Academy A6M5 Zero.
Eugene has done a very effective job on his Zero complete with
weathering.
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David Horn
is here with a simple, cheap and
VERY effective
Sandpaper storage
unit made from a container used for sorting pills for the older folks
among us.
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Tuesday,
Sept 13 2005 |
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Pete Hudson (Dr Fester)
begins today with a HUGE selection of
photos of the 58 entries from the recent 2005 ARC PACAIR
Group Build.
No doubt about it....this was a successful Group Build.
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Fabio M. Moretti
is here with his 1/48 HasegawaAichi B7A1 Ryusei Prototype “Grace”.
This particular model is built mostly out of the box with some extra
scratchbuilt detailing to improve the detail of the kit parts.
Fabio then finished his trainer with weathering.
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Hyuk-Jin Choi
has dropped by with his very
well done 1/48 Hasegawa F-16A NETZ IDF.
This model has some extra detailing including some resin parts from
Aires and scratchbuilt detailing and was finished off with a
beautifully done paint job.
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Jorge Bonilla
joins
us from Mexico with his 1/48 Monogram Spitfire Mk1.
Jorge finished his Spitfire in the markings of the famous Ace Douglas
Bader.
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Monday,
Sept 12 2005 |
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Rafi
Ben-Shahar has been busy building his 1/48 Fairey Barracuda II.
This model is loaded with scratchbuilt details including a very nicely
done wingfold. Very cool.
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Dan Duna
is
here with another of his scratchbuilt wonders. This is Dan's 1/72 Scratchbuilt Me-P1107.
Dan has included some info and in-progress photos.....the cockpit
looks excellent.
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David Rapasi
has
built not one but two of the 1/48 Accurate Miniiatures SBU2 Vindicators
and he joins us today with both of them.
Both paint schemes are quite different and include the usual high
quality David is well known for here on ARC.
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Sunday,
Sept 11 2005 4th
Anniversary of the World Trade Center Attack |
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Darren McGuinness
begins today with
his 1/48 Tamiya F4U-1D Corsair.
Darren weathered his corsair and folded the wings and finally posed it
on a diorama base to get a very well done display.
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Maxime Pidara
joins
us with a great looking 1/144 Revell Hawker Hunter.
This is one of those tiny 1/144 kit.....but that didn't stop Maxime
from building a well detailed Hunter.
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Saturday,
Sept 10 2005 |
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Duc Huy Nguyen begins
today with his 1/72 Academy Focke Wulf 190D.
Huy enjoyed building his Fw-190 Dora and finished it in the markings
for JV-44. The finished model captures the look of the Dora very
well.
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Michel Koster
is here with his
1/32 Trumpeter A-10A Thunderbolt.
Michel used resin detail sets from Cutting Edge to detail his A-10 and
followed that up with further scratchbuilt detailing. All this
work paid off with a fine looking A-10.
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Friday,
Sept 9 2005
Tajikistan
National Day |
Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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Marlon Guevara
starts today with
his
1/72 Academy F-86F 25.
Marlon did an outstanding job getting the panel shading to look like
the real bare metal aircraft.
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Zdenek Ziegler
joins
us from the Czech Republic with his
1/48 Italeri Grumman F-14A Tomcat.
Zdenek weathered his F-14 and then finished it in the markings of VF-31
Tomcatters on the USS Forrestal. The finished model came out
looking very well.
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Ryan Cameron
is here with his
1/48 Academy RCN T-33.
Ryan took the Academy kit and produced a well done brightly coloured
Canadian T-33.
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Chip Harrison
has sent in an interesting photo of a
Ki-43? on a pole.
Anyone have more info on this Japanese plane on a pole?
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Thursday,
Sept 8 2005
First
use of V-2 rocket lands Chiswick area of London (1944)
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I will be
attending The
Victoria Scale Modellers annual show and contest this coming Saturday
Sept 10.....Victoria, Canada is just north of Seattle. Check
their website for further info. I hope some of you might attend
the show.
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Chris McKee
starts today with
his good looking 1/48 Airfix BAE Hawk.
Chris added a resin cockpit and had quite the difficult time with this
kit as you'll read in his article.
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Armin Knes
joins
us with his 1/48 Special Hobby Mil Mi-1T.
This is a multi-media kit but Armin kept with it and managed to get
this attractive model for his efforts.
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Charles Kalina
is
here with his article 1/72 Fujimi MiG-29 Fulcrum.
Charles began this kit when he was a member of the Baghdad
hobby club and finally finished this little gem upon his
arrival back home. His MiG-29 is in Iraqi markings and
represents one of the aircraft buried in the sand.
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Hal Marshman
has dropped by with
his 1/48 Hasegawa Corsair AU-1.
Hal did his usual magic to finish his Corsair with some scratch built
parts and resin wheels and his usual lovely job of weathering.
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Wednesday,
Sept 7 2005
Brazil
Independence Day Pakistan
Air Force Day
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Sergio Baptista is
here with his article Some Wings from Brazil
on honour of
the Brazil
Independence Day. His article has a huge selection of
Brazilian aircraft for you to enjoy.
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Rodney Williams is
a well known master modeller on ARC and he's here with another of his
beauties. This is his 1/48 Hasegawa F-86E Sabre Jet
finished decals from with Leading Edge Models.
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Michael Turk
is
here with his 1/48 Revell P-40.
Michael chose to build his P-40 out of the box and finished it in the
attractive markings for the Flying Tigers in China.
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Joel N. Mendoza
joins us from the Philippines
with his 1/72 Hasegawa F-4S Phantom II.
Joel finished his F-4 out of the box in the attractive markings of the
USN. Nice one Joel.
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Tuesday,
Sept 6 2005
Swaziland National
Day
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Eric Bade
starts today with his fine looking
1/72 Hasegawa BAE Harrier GR5.
Eric used photo etch on the cockpit and did further detailing on his
Harrier to get it more accurate. His article talks about this
kit and what he did to improve it.
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Rick Reinbott
is
here with his 1/48 Monogram P-51D Mustang.
Rick built his Mustang out of the box and recently added some
weathering to it. A good looking P-51 Rick.
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Dima Mudrakou
joins us from
Belarus with
his 1/72 VES Su-15TM.
Dima did quite a bit of detailing to his Su-15TM to improve the detail
of his model. The finished model came out looking very good....
especially considering the fact this wasn't the best kit.
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Andy Frill
is
here with his
1/48 Academy CH-46E Bullfrog.
Andy added an interior from
Cobra Company to further detail his CH-46E and
then finished it off with weathering to get that perfect realistic
look.
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Monday,
Sept 5
2005
Labour
Day Holiday
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No update today.....I'm
taking a break today and relaxing with my wife and kids. I have found
the News out of New Orleans during the past week to be emotionally
exhausting for myself. The big success today was my youngest daughter
finally riding her 2 wheeler. Removing the pedals from my 2 daughters
bikes so they could get their balance permitted them to teach themselves to
ride their bikes......I'm amazed how easy the process was.
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Sunday,
Sept 4
2005
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Geoff Pereira starts
today with his D-Day striped 1/48 Hasagawa P-47 Razorback.
Geoff went to great lengths in paint his P-47 to give it that
realistic look and he was successful in his efforts.
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Eric Fauré has
done an outstanding
job on his 1/32 Revell Hunter FGA9.
Eric scratchbuilt so many details on his Hunter including full landing
gear bay plumbing and a scratchbuilt ejection seat. Quite
amazing to see his photos.
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Saturday,
Sept 3
2005
Qatar
National Day
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Evgeny Dedigurov
starts today with his 1/72 “Yakovlev YaK-25 RW”.
Have a close look at the multi-panel bare metal paint job on this
one.....it's very well done.
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Björn Dol
joins us from the
Netherlands with his
1/48 Monogram AH-64A Apache.
Björn
has tells about building his Apache and about what went well and what
didn't go so well. His efforts did eventually pay off with a
good looking model.
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Friday,
Sept 2
2005
Vietnam
Independence Day
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Day Japan surrenders in Tokyo Harbour |
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Duc Huy Nguyen
is
here from Vietnam on his country's Independence Day with his
first article on ARC. This is his 1/72 Fujimi MiG 21 MF.
A beautifully done Mig-21 model.
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Le Thanh Tung
is here from Vietnam on this sopecial day with his
beautifully done
1/48 Academy Mig-21PF Fishbed VPAF.
This particular jet has quite the history from the Vietnam was and
Tung tells about this in his article.
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Goran Kovacic
is here with his
first article on ARC today. this is his
1/72 Revell F4u-5 Corsair.
Goran built his good looking Corsair out of the box and added
weathering with the drybrushing technique.
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Bill Weber
joins
us with his well done 1/32 Academy F/A-18 Hornet.
Bill used a very good technique for colouring the red and green lights
on his Hornet......you can read about it in his article.
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Hyuk-Jin
Choi is here with
his 1/48
Academy P-38J Lightning.
He used a cockpit set and did an outstanding job weathering his P-38
complete with chipped paint.
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Chris McKee
has dropped by with
his 1/48 JGMT Dassault Ouragan.
This is aresin kit but that didn't stop Chris from turning out
an excellent looking model of this Israeli jet.
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Thursday,
Sept 1 2005 Slovak Republic
Constitution Day |
Libya
Independence Day Uzbekistan National Day |
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I've added
a link to www.modelsitesi.com to the
ARC links pages. On there you will find photos from a recent
modeling exhibition and competition containing 30 categories, more than 650
models. Look for a link on their main page for this
competition....top
center of their homepage below the top banner.
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Bill Arnold
begins today with his
Marx Toys Fred Flintstone-mobile.
As you may recall I recently had a picture of myself riding a 1/1
scale Fred Flintstone car and Bill figured it would be amusing for me
to see a model he built of this famous car.
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Armin Knes
joins us with his
1/48 Revell PBY-5A.
Armin did a stunning job painting his PBY.
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Dean Large
is here with his 1/32 Revell F-16.
Dean scratchbuilt details and rescribed his F-16 to bring it up to
the standards of other F-16 kits. His efforts were well worth it
as you'll see in his very finely done F-16.
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Tom Vrauko
has dropped by with his
1/72 Supermodel Reggiane-Re2000.
Tom did some scratchbuilt details and finished his Re-2000 off ina
very colourful and complicated camo scheme. He has also included
history of this particular Re-2000.
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Randy Foo
is here with his 1/72 Sukhoi Su-47 'Operational' Berkut.
Randy has done an outstanding job on this great looking aircraft
model. A treat to see. His article includes lots of detail
about his model.
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