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Michel
Jacqmain gets
things started today with a very well done 1/48
Tamiya Spitfire Vb.
Have a close looks at this one.....the
weathering techniques used produces amazing
results.
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David
Horn dropped
by the ARC Corporate offices with his 1/48
Hasagawa A-7D.
David added some aftermarket goodies to add
extra details to his very impressive
A-7.
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István
Hevesi joins
us with his 1/24
Airfix Ju-87 B-2 Stuka.
Wow....this is a sweet looking model......it's
amazing the detail this big 1/24 kits
contains....and how well it looks when it is
built by a skilled modeller like István.
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Gabriel
Stern is
here with his 1/72
Heller Dewoitine D-510.
This is a unique looking little kit and looking
quite good after Gabriel worked his
magic.
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Tuesday,
Jan 24 2006 |
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Thierry Jacques
begins today's update with his 1/72
Dragon/Revell Heinkel He-162 in French Air Force
markings.
Thierry built his very nice looking He-162 out of the box.
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Tolga Ulgur stopped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his 1/48 Hasegawa P-40N Warhawk.
I always enjoy seeing Tolga's work on ARC.....the cockpit detailing
and weathering is always inspiring for me.
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Paolo Yuen
is here with his 1/144 Revell AV-8B Harrier II Plus.
This is a very small little model......but Paolo did a fine job on it
and turned it into a Spanish Naval Harrier.
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Monday,
Jan 2 3 2006 |
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Charles Johnson
begins the week with
his 1/48 Academy CH 46 SeaKnight.
Charles built this colourful beauty out of the box and he covers it in
his article.
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Andre' Bruinsma
has been busy
building his 1/32 Trumpeter A7.
Andre' built
his A-7 mostly out of the box except for the markings which he decided
to paint on himself. The weathering and weapons make this a very
real looking jet.
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Micah
Reysio-Cruz is here with his first
article on ARC. This is his 1/48 Academy/Hasegawa F4U-4
done up as
a Korean War corsair complete with weathering. Welcome to ARC
Micah!!!.
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Jason Cooper
dropped by today with his 1/48 Italeri F-4 Phantom II.
Jason did some modifications to his F-4 to make it an Australian
Phantom....complete with those wonderful "Roo"
markings.
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Sunday,
Jan 22 2006 |
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Saturday,
Jan 21 2006 |
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Jesús
Alcocer is
here with his 1/72
Smer Focke Wulf Fw-190 F8.
I always get a kick out of seeing these desert
camo fighters....it's a treat to see this one.
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Friday,
Jan 20 2006 |
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Dominik Richard
gets things started today with
his 1/72 Italeri F-14A Tomcat.
Dominik did a beautiful job building and finishing his
Tomcat.
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Jure Olaj
has been busy the
last 2 years
building his 1/32 Bolkow
Bo-105 "Hornisse". This
chopper comes with a scratch built cockpit and so much
more.
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Fernando del Pino
joins us from Spain
with his 1/72 Vultee P-66 Vanguard
in WW2 Chinese markings. This is a limited
run kit but it builds up to quite the nice model.
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Thursday,
Jan 19 2006 |
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Hiran Horta begins today's update with his
1/72 Hasegawa P-47D25 RE.
This well done P-47 is finished in Brazilian markings from WW2.
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Rolando Sorne
is here
from the Philippines with his 1/72 Revell RF-4C.
Rolando built this fine looking Phantom almost straight from the box.
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Wednesday,
Jan 18 2006 |
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Dirk Adel
gets things started today with
his 1/48 Tamiya Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat.
Dirk added a resin cockpit and other goodies to improve upon this very
nice kit. The results look very good.
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Paul Hayes is here with his 1/48 Hasegawa F-104G.
This is a beautifully built Spanish F-104 with some very realistic
photos.
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Tuesday,
Jan 17 2006 |
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István Hevesi
begins today's update with his 1/24 Airfix Spitfire Mk-1a.
István built his big Spitfire directly out of the box.....quite the
involved level of detail.
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Olivier Pinsolle
is here with his 1/48 Aconcagua EMB - 312F TUCANO.
This is a resin kit, but Olivier kept at it and turned it into a
"head-turner".....I love the instrument panel photo...great
detail.
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Monday,
Jan 16 2006 |
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Hal Marshman Sr
joins us with his 1/48 Tamiya Bf-109E3
done up quite nicely in Hptmn Josef Priller
markings from 1940.
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Eric Bade
is here with his 1/72 Fujimi Mig-21 Bis.
Eric did a fair anmount of extra detailing to his MiG and finished off
in markings for a very famous MiG. His article tells the history
of this aircraft as well as what he did to build this model.
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Sunday,
Jan 15 2006 |
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Fernando del Pino
is here from
Spain gets things started today with
his 1/72 Caproni-Vizzola F.5.
Fernando did extra scratchbuilding to the cockpit and landing gear in
his finely done F.5. model to complete the detail.
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Vince Lucente
dropped by today with his 1/48 ESCI US-3A Viking.
Vince did the paint scheme up right on this one and followed it up
with weathering to get the look just right.
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PS
joins us with his
1/72
Hasegawa Hellcat Mk I.
PS did plenty of extra detailing to his British Hellcat
including a resin engine and other details items. The then
rescribed the panel lines and gave it some light weathering
after he had finished the paint scheme.
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Saturday,
Jan 14 2006 |
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John McCormick
starts today with his
1/32 Tamiya
F-4D.
John was very busy on his big Phantom and went with a resin cockpit
and a nice big weapons load as well as other goodies he talks about in
his article as well as rescribing all the panel lines.
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Rafi
Ben-Shahar has been busy
building his 1/48 Tamiya He 219A-7.
Rafi went crazy with Aires detail items on his He-219 and the followed
it up with a first rate paint job. An impressive He-219.
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Friday,
Jan 1 3 2006 |
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Maxime Pidara
gets this started today with the 1/144 Academy Minicraft C-47.
Maxime chose to paint up this particular C-47 in D-Day stripes.
A very nice C-47.
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Fýrat Saygýn
has been busy
building his 1/48 Airfix EA6B Prowler.
This is his first article on ARC and it is a stunner. Fýrat
chose to use the Pragon wing fold set and other goodies to detail his
Prowler.
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James Lollar
is here with his 1/32 Hasagawa Bf-109G-6.
James took this very fine kit and built it into a very accurate
looking model of this famous WW2 fighter.
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Catherine Vickers
stopped by the ARC Corporate offices
with her very
nicely done 1/72 Revell Hunter GA11 conversion.
Catherine details the total conversion in her article, which I think
you'll find quite helpful if you considering the same conversion.
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Thursday,
Jan 12 2006 |
I'm pleased
to welcome Iron Works Models
as an ARC Sponsor.
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Iron Works Models
is an online webstore founded and managed by a professional modeler who understands the needs of
today's market.
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The
company's goal is to provide a diverse selection of quality kits,
materials and excellent service for today's modeler. As their store grows, it will provide a wider selection of product choices from tools and finishing products to decals, resin and kits. Take a look around to see what
they have and make sure you visit the galleries. Iron Works Models wants to be a one-stop shop for your modeling needs.
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Pablo Girgulsky
begins today's update with his 1/48 Monogram A-1J Skyraider.
Pablo weathered his Skyraider and loaded it with a weapons load and
folded the wings to complete the look.
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Malcolm Reid
joins us with his 1/32 Trumpeter F-105D Thunderchief.
Malcolm spent almost 2 years off and on building his big F-105....and
the beautifully finished model shows the effort.
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Olivier
has dropped by with his 1/72 Matchbox Fiat G-91Y.
Olivier added some well done scratchbuilt details to his jet.....no
easy job in 1/72, but the finished model turned out very well.
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Wednesday,
Jan 11 2006 |
I'd like to
point out that an e-mail went out to all members of the forum yesterday
informing everyone that the forum rules had been updated. This
e-mail has alarmed a number of regulars and I just wanted to let you know
this was not just mailed to a few people.....it went out to everyone.
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Chris St Clair
gets things started today with
his 1/72 Brilliant Buzzard.
This is an interesting looking bird and Chris provides plenty of info
about building it.
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Jim Knight
has dropped by with his 1/48 Tamiya BF-109 E-3.
Jim built
this one mostly out of the box with the addition of photo etch
seatbelts.
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Paolo Yuen
is here with
his 1/200 Hasegawa 777-200.
Paolo used resin engines and aftermarket decals and old fashioned
skill to make this realistic looking airliner. The display base
really sets it off.
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Tuesday,
Jan 10 2006 |
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John Yujuico
is here with his 1/72 Zvesda iL-4.
This is not the prettiest plane ever designed....but that didn't stop
John from doing it up nice.
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Matthias Simon
is here with
his 1/72 Horten
Ho VII V-1 from
Airmodel.
This is one cool looking version of the famous flying wings designed
by Horten. Matthias did a fine job on this little
beauty.
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Monday,
Jan 9 2006 |
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Vladimir Begera
begins today
with photos from the recent Plastic winter 2005
show.
Lots of fine looking aircraft models.
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Terry Chan
is here with his first article on ARC. This is Terry's 1/32 Trumpeter SU-27 Flanker
in a heck of an eye catching paint scheme. Welcome to ARC Terry.
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Sunday,
Jan 8 2006 |
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Craig
Sargent is
here with his 1/72
Trumpeter Wyvern S.4.
The markings for Craig's Wyvern are from the Suez
Crisis/Operation Musketeer
and Craig provides very good detail in his
article about building this gem
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Saturday,
Jan 7 2006 |
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Ted Johnston
dropped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his 1/48 Phantoon.
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Friday,
Jan 6 2006 |
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Colin and Kelly
have been busy
building their Lego Airfield.
This is very cool!!!
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Rob Haelterman is
here with his 1/72 Jaguar GR.9
in Israeli markings.
Rob has included some operation "future" history of this
jet.
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Charles P. Kalina dropped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his BattleWarMechBot.
This is a very friendly killing machine.
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Thursday,
Jan 5 2006 |
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Alvis 3.1 fires
things up today with his historical article about the
The BAC/Republic F-114 Napa.
Finally the
truth is revealed about this (until now) unknown aircraft.
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Llarry Amrose
joins us with his Flying Circus.
This one cracked me up.
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Nathan Bradford joins us with his 1/48 Italeri F/A-22 Raptor. It
seems the Aussies will be buying a bunch of these....as this one
indicates.
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Justin Davenport
dropped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his 1/72 Airfix Bloodhound. One
of the lesser known ideas used by Canada Post.
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R Lee Foss
is here with his Groovy Grader.
No doubt about it....this baby is COOOL!!!
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Franck Martin
is here with his
The MILKA® 109.
I quit sugar and chocolate 2 days ago.....reading this article almost
killed me.
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Wednesday,
Jan 4 2006
Union of Myanmar
Independence Day |
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Michael Stanley
is here with his
UP Flyer.
This one defies all logic. :-)
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Todd Pollock
joins us with his Wookies First Flight???. I
enjoyed this one....but then again......doesn't everyone likes Wookies?
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Vassily
joins us with his Santa's sledge.
Now we know how he gets all the gifts delivered on Dec 24.
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Bud Sliger joins us with his EB-1A Excaliber.
This particular aircraft has a connection to Dreamland and Top Secret
aircraft development.
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Jojo B Cruz
has been busy
building his 1/240 JASDF F-4 Phantom II.
You won't believe the work Jojo put into this model.....WOW!!!!!
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Tuesday,
Jan 3 2006 |
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Alvis 3.1 begins today's update with his The Watermelon Seed.
Alvis 3.1 is revealing more US Government Top
Secret information.
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Roy Moseley
is here with his
Hans Airbus A321.
Ahhh....a new lost cost Airline in Germany.
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Dave Bailey
joins us with his The RAYADOR. Thids
particular aircraft was used in the Falklands War 2. I
particularly enjoyed the last sentence in Dave's article.
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Tyler White dropped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his Monogram F-15C. Tyler
painted his F-15 in Nebraska
Football air force
markings.
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Charles
"BlackCat" Sickels joins us with his 1/48 F4U-5.5 Corsair Bipe.
Yuphere's proof of the existence of the bi-plane corsair.
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Monday,
Jan 2 2006 |
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Bud Sliger
joins us with his MH-64B Grayfox.
This special
aircraft is designed for air support but read Bud's article for the
full story.
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Habu2 has been busy
building his Operation Evergreen.
Yup...have you ever
considered decorating your Christmas tree with tiny
models? What would YOUR wife say?
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Dave Bailey aka "The Rat"
stopped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his Sopwith Bactrian.
Dave has included
the complete historical story from World War 1 explaining this odd
aircraft.
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Leigh Eaton
has dropped by with his F-18 O UberBug.
This is quite the paint scheme on this Hornet......read Leigh's
article for the full historical history of this car.
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Jim Pernikoff
is here with his PU-1 ArmedPitts.
Jim is here with the full political history behind this odd aircraft.
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Sunday,
Jan 1 2006
Silly Week 2006 Happy New Year!!! |
Cuba Anniversary
of the Revolution |
Haiti
Independence Day
Sudan Independence Day
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Alvis 3.1
is here to kick off your New Year in a very big
way. Alvis 3.1 is here with his Tony the Tigers' Tank.
This is a very funny story and
model....enjoy!!!
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Dave Bailey
stopped by the ARC Corporate offices
with his Transall Shorts Calais & Dover.
Dave has included quite a detailed what-if story to back-up his flying
boat model.
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Bud Sliger
joins us with his Vampire BR.1.
This little known bomber has quite the service history as you'll read
in Bud's what-if article.
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Justin Davenport
dropped by today with his 1/72 A-10 - Black Warthog.
This particular Black Jet has quite the secret history as you'll read
in Justin's what-if article.
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Bryan Tighe
joins us with his 1/24 Tamiya Peugeot 206.
This beautifully
built model is in memory of race car driver
Richard Burns.
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Michael Stanley
is here with his Golden Wings Phantom.
I quite enjoyed seeing this historical paint scheme on the F-4.....it
makes a very good what-if paint scheme.
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