Monday,
Oct 31 2005
Halloween!!!
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Today's
update has a Halloween theme to it.
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Jon H. Ruehle begins
today with his 1:1 Scale Pumpkin.
Now you can get some ideas for carving your own fighter jet pumpkin!!!
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Darren Roberts
joins us with his 1/48 Hasegawa F-14B Tomcat.
In Jolly Rogers markings to fit with today's Halloween theme. I
can never see enough Jolly Rogers F-14's.
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Darren Roberts is
also here with a selection of F-14 Tomcat “Halloween” Tails.
A perfect fit for today's Halloween update. Nice work on these
tail Darren.
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Sunday,
Oct 30 2005
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Laurent Boildieu
is here with his
1/48 Hasegawa P-47M-1
done up in the markings for an ACE that flew
with the "Wolf Pack". Another beauty from
Laurent.
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Gabriel Stern
joins us with
his 1/72
Jach/Attack Baynes Bat glider. This
is one of the lesser known gliders....and interesting to see.
Nice one Gabriel.
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Saturday,
Oct 29 2005
Turkey
Republic Day
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Everyone in
Turkey has been very busy with today's update....well done everyone!!!
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Ercan Karakas
begins this special update honouring Turkey with some photos from the
recent İstanbul Model Contest. The
C-130 by Ufuk
Aydıner is included in this article.
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H.Ufuk
Aydiner is here
with his award winning
1/48
Italeri C-130H (E) in the markings for
"Turkish Stars" (the
Turkish National Aerobatic Team supply plane). H. Ufuk rescribed
this monster and used custom decals and finished
it off with weathering.
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Fuat Ertuzun
joins us with his first
articler on ARC. this is his well done 1/72 Turkish Polikarpov
R-5. Fuat
used a few good tricks on this Bi-plane and he tells about these in
his article. Welcome to ARC Fuat!!!
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Tamer Ozkan
is here with
his scratchbuilt 1/48 THK- 4 Glider.
Tamer did quite the job on this one and includes photos of his wooden
masters...amazing amount of work.
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Fuat Ertuzun
is here with
his 1/48 Breguet 14-A2.
Fuat did extra scratchbuilding and detailing to complete his Breguet
14-A2.
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Ceki
Erginbas joins us with some photos of his
first diorama. This is his crash landed 1/48
Tamiya Spitfire MkVb in Turkish
markings. A photo of the original aircraft is included in the
article. A very well done diorama.
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Tayfun Yardim
is here with his hand painted Tiger Meet
1/48 Siat Flamingo.
I'm quite impressed by the ability of people to hand paint such paint
schemes.
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Friday,
Oct 28 2005
Czech
National Day
Greece National Day
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Today the
Modellers from the Czech Republic and Greece have been busy sending in
articles for their National Days. Well done everyone....this is one
very big update.
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Eugene Trapezontas
is here with some photos from the recent 2005 IPMS HELLAS Scale Model show.
Eugene
also got an award/commendation for his Fw-190
model in that particular show, but he's too modest to mention that
himself.
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Cristos Tourlis
is here from Greece
on his National Day with his
1/72 Hasegawa F-104G
in
Greek markings. It's always a treat to see a Tiger scheme model
on ARC. Nice one Cristos.
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Eugene Trapezontas is
here from Greece with his 1/48 Italeri AH64D Longbow Apache.
This special Longbow is finished in Hellenic
Army markings in houour of the Greek National Day today. Nice
one Eugene.
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Radim Schimmer
is here with
his beautifully done 1/72 Academy MiG-23MF
in colourful Czech markings.....check out the Devil tailart on Radim's
MiG.
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Martin Glogar
is here with his 1/48 Academy MiG21 MF.
Martin finished his Mig in Czech markings and added some aftermarket
detail items to improve the detail on his good looking jet.
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Radek
Lhotsky is
here with a review of the 1/32
& 1/72 MiG-21 F-13 decals from Tally Ho decals.
This decal sheet includes decals
for MiG-21 F-13's in the Czechoslovak Air Force.
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Thursday,
Oct 27 2005 Saint Vincent and the Grenaidines Independence Day |
Turkmenistan
National Day Ecuadorian Airforce
Day
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Li Weiguang
is here with
his 1/48 Trumpeter MiG15-bis.
Weiguang
did some custom markings
and changed the ejection seat on his Mig-15. This was flown by a
top Russian Ace from the Korean War. It's good to see this model
of this famous Mig.
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Wednesday,
Oct 26 2005 Austria National
Day
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Armin Knes
is here from Austria on his National Day with his
1/72 Revell MiG 1.44 and
S-37. Armin's models are both
prototypes of these aircraft....an attractive pair to be sure.
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Mike Lepek
is here with
his very bright red 1/48 Accurate Miniatures P-51C.
This aircraft holds some world speed records and you can read all
about the history of this racer in Mikes article as you admire his
good looking Mustang.
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Tuesday,
Oct 25 2005
Charge
of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war (1854)
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I'm very pleased to announce the total
redesign of the Zotz Decals
website. As you may know, I'm the
webmaster for Eli's website and I think you'll find the new design
very quick and easy to surf. Go and give it a test drive.
One thing to notice is the Zotz Decals website looks the same in all
resolutions.
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Here's a note from
Meteor Productions
"We want to let
everyone know that due to staffing schedule changes there
will be no retail hours this weekend on Friday October 28 or Saturday
October 29. Sorry for any inconvenience. We are still open
regular hours
this week Monday through Friday 10:00am-6:00pm."
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Eric Bade starts
today with his 1/72 Hasegawa Hawker Hurricane MkII.
Eric quite enjoyed this 1/72 Hurricane model kit
and he added extra details that he explains in his article to get his
Hurricane looking this good.
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Tamás Skriba
is here with a couple of his
1/72
Revell Tornado's in a diorama from Operation Telic.
Tamás did a
beautiful job on these.....check out the detail and weathering.
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Gustavo Arribas Robles
joins us with
his 1/48 Italeri UH-1D "Slick"
that he built out of the box. This Vietnam
era chopper came out looking quite well.
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Monday,
Oct 24 2005 Zambia Independence Day
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Goran Kovacic
starts today with his
1/72 Kopro XFY-1 POGO.
Wow....Goran was challenged by this kit......read his article for more
details.....but he did finish it and in fine style....heck he even
enjoyed the build.
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Gonzalo Polanco Arana
is here to keep the bi-plane builder happy. This is his
1/72 ICM Polikarpov I-5
that he built out of the box with care and
attention to getting things right.
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Sunday,
Oct 23 2005
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Gabriel Stern is here
with his little 1/72 A-model Gee-Bee.
Gabriel's article is a very enjoyable and humorous read...this kit
sounds like it is a bit of a pig to build.....but that didn't stop
Gabriel from turning out a real sharp looking model.
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PS
is here with his
1/72
Hasegawa/Minicraft Lim-5P Fresco-D.
This is a Polish Mig-17 and PS used the Hi-Decal Line of decals
to finish his MiG. Read his article about his weathering
technique.....I found it quite informative.
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Saturday,
Oct 22 2005
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Michel Koster
has been busy building F-16's. Today he's here from the
Netherlands with a selection of his
1/72 Revell and Hasegawa F-16's.
Some of these are US Vipers and others are Dutch F-16's....his article
tell more about building them all.
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Pedro Fuster
is here today with his 1/72 Italeri OH-6A Cayuse.
Pedro put plenty of scratch built detail into his tiny chopper and he
explains all this in his article.
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Friday,
Oct 21 2005 Somalia
National
Day
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Trafalgar Day Royal Navy Anniversary
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Arie Cohen
begins today with his
1/32 Trumpeter F4U-4 Corsair. An
attractive model....but big...even with the wings folded. Check
out the nose art.
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Dima Mudrakou
is here from Belarus with his 1/72 Italeri Su-34.
Dima did extensive work detailing his 1/72 jet and his article tells
about all his work and detailing.
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Yannick Guegan
joins us with his nicely done
1/48 Tamiya Do 335. Yannick
added a resin cockpit to enhance the detail of his Do-335.
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Thursday,
Oct 20 2005
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Jong-ho Park
joins us from Korea
with his big and beautiful 1/32 Trumpeter Su-27.
Jong-ho is a very pleased with this kit although he didn't find it to
be perfect. I think you agree he did an excellent job on it.
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Aaron C. Rhodes
is here with
his first article on ARC. This is his well built and weathered 1/48 Revell F-14D Tomcat.
Welcome to ARC Aaron!!!
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I
have a review of the new Colors
and Markings of the Israeli Air Force book
Written by Yoav Efrati andf available from IsraDecal.
Yoav is one of the leading experts on the
Israeli Air Forces colours and markings throughout it's amazing
history as well as being one or the top modellers in Israel.
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Wednesday,
Oct 19 2005
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Stefan
Szymanski starts today with his
1/72 Italeri Horsa-Assaultglider.
Stefan's doirama tells a story of the glider landings on the 6th of
June 1944 by the Red Devils.
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Ed Fuquay
is here with
his big 1/48 Testors SR-71 Blackbird.
Although Ed found the kit a bit lacking, he persisted and finished his
Blackbird and did a darn fine job.
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Calum Gibson
is here with his
first article. This is his
1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk Vb
in RNZAF markings. Calum's article tells about this little
beauty and the build process.
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PS is here with some of
his Sea
King walkaround photos.
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Tuesday,
Oct 18 2005
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No
update today....I had my monthly model club meeting last night and we
all met at a Tim Hortens donut shop after the meeting and talked until
1:30am. It was a good evening well spent.
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Monday,
Oct 17 2005
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A few
days ago I redid the ARC home page to make it more user friendly for
all resolutions from 800 x 600 to 1280 x 1024.
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Archiving
continues and I've managed to archive hundreds of gallery articles
over the weekend....but there are still more to do.....the work
continues.
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Tamás Skriba
is here with his
nicely done 1/72 Kopro MiG-21R
that he built in ex-Yugoslav markings. Tamás
changed a few thing on this model to make it more
accurate.
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Mark M.
is here with his
great looking Eastern Front white-washed
1/72
Airfix Focke Wulf Fw-189.
To show all the details Mark added to the cockpit, he scratchbuilt the
greenhouse framing to finish his model with no clear parts. His
article is quite the interesting read.
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Sunday,
Oct 16 2005
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Denis A. Belyanin
begins today with
his 1/72 Hasegawa AV-8B.
Denis did some extra detailing on his attractive Harrier and finished
it in Spanish
Navy markings.
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Saturday,
Oct 15 2005
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I'm working
hard on catching up on
the archiving, but
there are close to 1000 articles to be archived with their thumbnails, so
it will take a couple of weeks. With my new computer I am able to
tackle many tasks (such as archiving) that were difficult to find time
for. Updates will
continue during this archiving.
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Istvan Soos is
here with his 1/72 Revell RB-36 F.
Istvan built this large model out of the box and the end results looks
very good.
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Andreas Lang
is here for
the first time with a beautifully built 1/72 Revell F/A-18 Hornet.
Andreas did some preshading on this Hornet and gave it the very eye
catching markings.
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Friday,
Oct 14 2005
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Dan Jenkins is
here with his first article on ARC. Dan chose to begin with his
impressive 1/144 Minicraft Space Shuttle.
I am very impressed with the look of this shuttle in-flight with it's
exhaust smoke. Welcome to ARC Dan!!!
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Eric Bade
is here with his
1/72 Hasegawa Kawasaki T-4. Eric
used Eduard photo etch to detail the plane and cockpit. He
finished off his sharp looking Japanese trainer
with Platz
aftermarket decals.
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Gabriel Stern is
here with a very funny article about building his
1/72 Airfix Short Skyvan.
Despite all the challenges in building this Skyvan.....it turned
out pretty darn well.
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Thursday,
Oct 13 2005
US
Navy's birthday
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Le Thanh Tung
starts
today's update with his US Navy and USMC Hornets in his 1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18C & F/A-18D
article. Tung did an outstanding job
weathering his Hornets.
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Patrick Debaisieux
is here from
Belgium with his 1/48 Hasegawa Bf 109 E-1
diorama of a
Bf-109 workshop somewhere in Germany in 1939. Patrick got the
feel of this scene to look very realistic and I look forward to seeing
more of his models on ARC.
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Rick Reinbott
is here with his 1/48 Monogram
MiG-15 in Korean
markings from the Koraen war. Nice one Rick
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Wednesday,
Oct 12 2005
Spain
National Day |
Equatorial Guinea National Day |
Bali
BombingTerrorist Bombing in Nightclub Bali, Indonesia (2002)
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Juan
Ojados Gonzalez
starts today with
his 1/48 Hasegawa F-18D Hornet
in Spanish markings to honour Spain on her National Day. Juan
did extra work on his F-18 and you'll enjoy his article.
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Gabriel Stern
joins us with his
1/72
ICM Illya Murometz.
this delicate looking model required more than a bit of patience to
get looking this good......well done Gabriel.
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Trevor Murphy
is here with his 1/48
Grand Pheonix F3H-2N Demon.
Trevor has high praise for this multi-media kit and the finished model
shows he knows his stuff.
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Ken
Middleton
is here with some of
his
F-14B
walkaround photos.
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Tuesday,
Oct 11 2005
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I would
like to express my sympathies to the Pakistani ARC'ers and the people in
Pakistan after the huge deadly earthquake.
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Steven 'Buster' Keeton
is here with his
first article 1/72 Italeri F-14A Bomb Cat.
If you look into the cockpit you'll see a T-Rex flying this
tomcat. Welcome to ARC Steve!!
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Davide Cerutti is
here with his first article. This is his beautifully done
1/48 Heller AS350B2
I-LASG. Davide did a huge amount of
scratchbuilding on his chopper. Welcome to ARC Davide!!
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Fernan De Gannes
joins us with his
1/48 Hasegawa F-4EJ Phantom.
Fernan spent many hours improving the details on his Phantom and it
shows.
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Monday,
Oct 10 2005 Thanksgiving
Day Canada |
Fiji
National Day
Republic
of China National Day |
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Drew Thompson
begins today with part 1 of his
1/48 Monogram B-17G
article. Drew has done a pile of work on
his Fort and you'll enjoy seeing his detail photos. I look
forward to seeing part 2 and Drew progresses on this project.
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Eric Fauré is
here with his 1/32 Hasegawa BAF F-104 G.
Eric built this beauty 8 years ago.....and the detail is excellently
done.
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Tamás Skriba
joins us with his well
done 1/72 Italeri F-111F.
Tamás took the Italeri F-111A converted into F-111F and then added
further detail with photo-etch.
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Sunday,
Oct 9 2005
Uganda
Independence Day
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Bill Lachance
begins today with
his recently finished
1/48 Hasegawa
P-40E. Bill used some Eduard photo
etch to further enhance his P-40 to give it the high level of
detail he is accustomed to.
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PS
is here with his 1/72 Hasegawa F-14 Tomcat.
This is a
F-14 from the Japanese
anime “Macross” TV show.....PS added photo etch to
improve on the detail of his special F-14.
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Saturday,
Oct 8 2005 Croatia
Independence
Day
Indian Air Force Day 1932
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Rupesh Santoshi
starts this
special Indian Air Force Day update with his 1/72 Hasegawa SEPECAT Jaguar IM. Rupesh
provides much info about his conversion on his model.
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Polly Singh
is here with his 1/72 Italeri Hawk Mk 100.
This is the latest trainer of the Indian Air Force and Polly tells us
about his model and this trainer.
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Denis A. Belyanin
joins us with his 1/72 Zvezda Su-30K Flanker.
This Flakers came out looking very well, thanks to scratchbuilding and
detailing efforts by Denis.
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Polly Singh joins
us with his 1/72 Match Box Tempest IIs.
Polly displayed his classic Tempest on a diorama base to show off this
classic aircraft.
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Murli Rajan
is here with his
1/72 Hasegawa MiG 25 R.
Murli took this older kit and turned it into a great looking model of
this classic fighter.
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Friday,
Oct 7 2005
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Naor Avitbul
is a teenager joining us from Israel with
his 1/48 Hasagawa F-4E Phantom II.
Noar finished his F-4 in Israeli Air Force markings for a 30th
Anniversary aircraft and includes information about the combat history
of the F-4 in Israeli service. Welcome to ARC Naor!!
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Goran Kovacic
is here with his attractive looking 1/72 Revell A6M2 Zero.
Goran built his Zero out of the box with some scratch built cockpit
details. Nice one Goran.
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Leandro Maldonado
is here with his
1/72 Italeri A-4E Skyhawk
finished in US Navy aggressor markings.
Leandro had to do some extra work to get the details on his
A-4 correct.
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Phil Golding
is here with his 1/48 Airfix Mosquito.
Phil
took the 1/48 Airfix Mosquito B.XVI and converted it to a B.IX.
Phil has included some very interesting history on this aircraft and
it's Canadian connection. A fascinating and tragic
read....thanks Phil.
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Thursday,
Oct 6 2005
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Rafi Ben-Shahar
is
here with 2 of his 1/48 Arii P-40E
Warhawks.
These are the cheaper Arii kit, but Rafi didn't let that stop him for
finishing them up in great models.
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Wednesday,
Oct 5 2005
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Javier
"Jacarre" Carrera begins
today with his first article on ARC. This is his good looking 1/72 Revell F-47D-30 Thunderbolt
that was done up for the Chilean Air Force day of Sept 19, but
his article got lost in the hard drive crash on my computer. I'm
glad Javier resent it. Welcome to ARC
Javier!!!
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B Harry
is here with a 1/48 Academy Su-30MKI Mk.2
that was converted from the Academy Su-27UB.
B Harry was persistent and overcame problems during the build to turn
out a great looking model. There was also a fair bit of scratch
building to get the detail correct.
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Creighton Henthorn Jr.
is here with
his
1/48 Hasagawa F-14A Tomcat VF-154.
Creighton
used Aires wheel wells
and cockpit
with some Eduard photo etch to improve on the detail of his F-14.
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Rick Reinbott
is here with his 1/48 Monogram Ju 87G-2 Stuka.
Rick built this kit 25 years ago and recently decided to strip it down
and bring it up to his current skill level. A fine job
Rick.
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Tuesday,
Oct 4 2005
Lesotho
National Day
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Miroslav Adamovic
is here with his
elaborately done 1/32 Tamiya F-4C Phantom II.
Miroslav did extra detailing to his F-4 to get it historically
correct.
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Bill Lachance
joins us with
another of his beauties. This is his 1/48 Dragon Ta 152H-1
which he added his usual stunning extra
detailling.
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Dean Large
is here with his 1/650 USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701.
Dean did quite a bit of extra work when building this
kit......including custom made decals.
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Ken Middleton
is here with some New
England Patriots A-10
Walk Around photos.
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Monday,
Oct 3 2005
Germany
National Day
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Daniel Balog begin
today in honour of Germany with his first article on ARC today.
This is his 1/72 Revell MiG-29A Fulcrum
finished in markings for a GDR unit in the Luftwaffe.
Guten Tag!!
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Tolga Ulgur
is here with his
1/48 Airfix Spitfire Mk 22.
Tolga used some extra detail items and then
finished his Spitfire in RAF markings with his usual perfect
weathering job.
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Sunday,
Oct 2 2005
Guinea Independence Day
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Gary West
begins today with
his 1/48
Airfix/Monogram kitbash Sea Harrier FA.2.
Gary actually kit bashed the Airfix and Monogram kits to build his Sea
Harrier. Gary got a very good model of this famous jet for all
his efforts.
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Dan Farnham
is here with
his 1/48 Hasegawa Macchi C.202.
Dan used the smoke ring decals from Mike Grant
Decals.....these are also known as the "Death of The Hobby Smoke
Ring Decals".....check them out...they are very
good.
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Saturday,
Oct 1 2005
People's Republic of China National
Day |
Cyprus Independence Day Nigeria
Independence Day
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Alfonso Pereira starts
today with his 1/48 Motorized Tamiya Do-335B2.
Alfonso has added pager motors and tiny battery
to get the props on his D0-335B to spin. He tells you how to do
this neat modification in his article. An excellent job Alfonso.
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