Friday, Dec
31 2004
Happy
New Year everyone!!!
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I have
successfully arrived in the UK. It was a long uneventful trip.
I would like to take this time to wish you all good health and much
happiness in 2005. Please
remember to donate to the disaster relief in Asia.
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Catherine
Vickers is here to
begin your Friday update with her 1/72
Matchbox Phantom FG1. Catherine has provided some
very helpful and informative info about building her British
Phantom. Nice one Catherine.
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Pierluigi
Caccetta is here
with his 1/48
Mirage Hobby PZL P.11c. Pierluigi used some aftermarket
detail items to improve his PZL P.11C and then he finished it in
Polish markings.
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Andy
Mullen joins us
with his 1/72
Airfix BA 1976 Concorde.
The Concorrde will always hold a special place in our hearts and so it
was a treat to see Andy's BA Concorde.
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Thursday, Dec
30 2004
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Anne
Carstensen begins
today with her first article on ARC. This is her 1/48
Revell Germany Junkers Ju 87 R-2 Stuka.
I am quite happy and impressed with Anne skill and I hope to see more
of her work on ARC in the future. Welcome to ARC Anne!!!
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Jorge
Beleña "Yoryi"
joins us from Spain with his first article on ARC. This is his
1/72
Heller A-7H Corsair II done up almost out of the box with a few
detailing improvements. Welcome to ARC Jorge!!!
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Kairasp Daruwala
joins us with his
1/32
Tamiya Grumman F-14A Tomcat. Kairsp put some very good
effort into his big Tomcat and to make sure it looks great....he
finished it off in Jolyl Rogers markings.
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Branko
Pavcec is here from
Croatia
with his 1/72
Revell P-47D.
The markings are for an ex Yugoslav
Airforce P 47 D and this very nice Jug is finished off in
a well done bare metal finish.
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Wednesday, Dec
29 2004
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Gerald
Krumpas has dropped
by with his 1/72
Airfix Vulcan B.2 and Revell Victor K.2.
Without a doubt these are 2 of the most attractive aircraft ever
built. The Brits always did understand giving planes great
lines. Well done Gerald.
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Cyril
Worley has
dropped by with his 1/72
ESCI Douglas EC-47N Dakota. This is an
Electronic Counter Measures aircraft and
Cyril had to do quite a bit of work to make this Vietnam EC-47N look
accurate and realistic. Good to see your work as always Cyril.
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Tuesday, Dec
28 2004
Australia
"Proclamation Day" |
Nepal Birthday
of H.M. Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
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Our little planet has been
hit by a horrible
disaster. More than
one ARC'er has been affected by this earthquake and the Tsunami in
Asia. Please give something for disaster relief on this one to your
local Red Cross or Red Crescent
or a relief agency and have the funds directed to the relief effort.
These folks need our help and it's time to do our part.
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I.P.M.S.
Morrrselle in Belgium is having a show on January 22 and 23.
Click on their poster to the right or click
here for full details.
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Engin
Toredi joins us
from Turkey with his first article on ARC. This is his dazzling
1/48
Tamiya F-15J. Engin used the Twobobs decals on his Eagle and
the end result is deadly attractive.
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Laurent Boildieu
is here with his 1/48
Hasegawa Hawker Hurricane MkII. Laurent has a telent
ofor weathering and you've got to check out the underside on his
Hurricane.......I can almost smell the gunpowder.
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Jonathan
B Poliakov has sent
in some of his favourite pics from the recent IPMS
Israel October Show 2004. A
Tiger scheme Tornado got best of show.
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Monday, Dec
27 2004
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Silly Week
2005 (A reminder)
This
goofy week of fun will go ahead this year. I currently have no
articles for Silly Week 2005.
I need articles sent to me by midnight Dec 28.
I'm flying out to the UK on Dec 30 and I need to have all content loaded
and ready before I leave. At best, I'll have a modem connection in
England. I will return home on Jan 5. Please send me articles
of silly aircraft or any other models.
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Girolamo Lorusso starts today with his 1/48
Monogram EA-6B. As you marvel at the perfect detail work of
the wingfolds etc.....remember....it's all scratch built.
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Nguyen
Trong Duc joins us
from Vietnam. We don't get many articles from people living in
Vietnam.....so this is a special event. This is Trong's 1/32
Hasegawa F-6-F and as you can see.....he is very good at
weathering his aircraft.
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Sunday, Dec
26 2004 Slovenia
Independence Day
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Friday, Dec
24 2004
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Silly Week
2005 This
goofy week of fun will go ahead this year. I currently have no
articles for Silly Week 2005.
I need articles sent to me by midnight Dec 28.
I'm flying out to the UK on Dec 30 and I need to have all content loaded
and ready before I leave. At best, I'll have a modem connection in
England. I will return home on Jan 5. Please send me articles
of silly aircraft or any other models.
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Alvis 3.1 gets
this special update started with his very timely and informative article
about Santa's
Aircraft: 1900-2000. Now
you've got to check this one out!!!
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William
Tsang is here with
a follow-up article on his recent F-15 article. Today's article
deals with Modifying
Kit Pilot Figures
and provides step by step instructions on how to do your
figures. This will be a very helpful Tools n Tips article.
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Leonardo
is here with his
1/48
Hasegawa Ju-87R Picchiatello.
This is the Italian Ju-87. Look carefully at the paint scheme
and you'll see the original Luftwaffe markings are painted over.
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Chee
Wee, Sim has dropped by with
his 1/144
Dragon F-16C.
It is very hard to believe this is a 1/144 model.....very nicely
F-16.
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Thursday, Dec
23 2004 Birthday
of H.I.M. Emperor Akihito
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Dean
Large fires up
today's update with his 1/48
Hasegawa F-104C. Dean calls his article “The Right Stuff”.
Dean finished his beautiful Starfighter in a bare metal
finish.....you'll enjoy his article and photos.
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Piotr
"Lestat" Puchowski has
dropped by with his
1/48
Accurate Miniatures IL- 2m3. Piotr finished his Sturmovik
in a winter camo scheme with weathering. Very nice.
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William
Tsang is here from
Hong Kong with his 1/32
Tamiya F-15E Strike Eagle.
This is one very big beautiful model but it also a very challenging
model to build and detail and complete. William has done a
stunning job on his big F-15......you'll enjoy the
detail.
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Erik McIntyre
is here with an
article about the Sikorsky
XH-59A. This is one very unique looking aircraft......thanks
for the info Erik.
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Wednesday, Dec
22 2004 No
update today.....sorry folks.
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Tuesday, Dec
21 2004
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Ali
Mazhar is here with
a selection of his art work in his article called
My
Aviation Art. I wish I has this sort of skill and talent.
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Monday, Dec
20 2004
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Zoltán
Lantos is here with
his 1/144
Revell 737-800 "MALÉV" that
he finished up in Hungarian markings. An attractive airliner
model to be sure.
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Konley Kelley
is here with a digital
artwork image of his 1:48
Monogram F4F Wildcat. Konley calls his article The
Most Daring Single Action- Butch O'Hare's Wildcat.
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Prama
Sobari has finished his
1/72
Hasegawa F-14 Tomcat. This
is really a nice kit and Prama did his model right and ended
up with a fine looking Tomcat complete with some weapons as
well.
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Ricardo
Cornejo Z. has sent
in a very detailed article about building his 1/72
Trumpeter Xían H-6D.
The weathering on this one will blow your mind.....I can almost smell
the aviation fuel.
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Andy Lee
is here with some
photos he took at the
Hyakuri
Air Festival 2004
in
Japan on 25 Sept 2004. If you like Japanese
jets.....you'll love these photos.
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Sunday, Dec
19 2004
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I will
not be able to do weekend updates for the next month or so as I spend time
with my young kids during Christmas and New Year's. In early
January, I will be traveling to the UK to bring my very ill Dad home
to be with his kids.....if he can make the trip. Keep
my Dad in your prayers.....he is in much pain.
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Saturday, Dec
18 2004 Niger
Proclamation of the
Republic
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Friday, Dec
17 2004
Bhutan
National Day
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Catherine
Vickers joins us with her
1/72
Italeri Hawk T1A. It's always a treat to see
Catherine's work on ARC......a darn fine looking Hawk.
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Thursday, Dec
16 2004 Bahrain
National Day
Kazakhstan
National Day
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Polly Singh start today's
update with his 1/72
Aeroclub Folland Gnat. Polly has provided some very interesting
combat history of this aircraft as well as some photos of his attractive BMF
model.
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Laurent
Boildieu
is
here with his
1/48
Hasegawa Bf-109F2. Laurant's 109 wears
my favourite paint scheme....Russian Winter camo. Laurent has
done his usual fine job on the weathering.
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Charles
Matthews is here
with his 1/48
Italeri F-22. The finished model came out looking excellent
and shows what can be done with this kit.
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Wednesday, Dec
15 2004
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The update
is late today. I got sidetracked moving the ARC Domain name to a
faster server. With luck the home page might load a bit
faster. The homepage on the old server will remain up to redirect
people. I would
suggest after you read this note that you hold down your "Ctrl"
key and press your "F5" key. This
will get this new webpage in your computers cache and will load the new
correct links in the top ARC banner.
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Phil Hastie is
here with his 1/72
Hasegawa Douglas AD-6 Skyraider.
Although Phil built this Skyraider out of the box, he does include
helpful info in his article about building this kit. Nice one
Phil.
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Armin Knes is
here with his 1/48
Monogram Su-25K (early). Armin
used his airbrush for the first time building his Su-25. Quite
the attractive paint scheme Armin.....I like it.
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Christopher
Tyson joins us with his highly detailed
1/48
Monogram F-4C/D Phantom II.
Although this one was built mostly out of the box.....you must take a
close look at the paint job......quite a bit of skill and effort went
into the tiny details on the paint job.
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Tuesday, Dec
14 2004
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Rodrigo
Rendon begins
today with his
1/48
Hasegawa F-16CJ. A great build......lovely attention to
detail and subtle weathering.
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Laurent
Boildieu joins us with his
1/48
Tamiya F4U-1D Corsair. Laurent has created a worn and
weathered heavily used Corsair. The end result is quite
impressive.
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Amit Ya'ari is
here with his 1/48
FM Vautour II B. Amit finished his very nice Vautour in
Israeli markings. I've never seen this aircraft in IDF
markings......it's good to see this sort of variety in models and
markings.
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Jon
Whitmer has dropped
by with his 1/72
Italeri AC-119K. Jon did an outstanding job on making
his AC-119 look like a battle hardened veteran.
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Monday, Dec
13 2004
Saint Lucia
Independence Day
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Anthony
Manzoli is here
with another of his beautifully built 109's. This is his
1/32
Hasegawa Bf 109 G-6 flown
by a pilot from Finland. Perfect work as usual Anthony.
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Martin
Morkowsky is here
from Germany with his big and beautiful
1/32
Tamiya F-15C. Martin built his Eagle
straight from the box and what an impressive model it
is.
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Juan
Ramon Garcia Martin is here from Spain
with his 1/72
Italeri Blackhawk.
Juan finished his well done Blackhawk in Israeli markings, which are
always popular. I enjoyed seeing this Blackhawk in desert camo.
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Miroslav
Adamovic joins us
with his 1/48
Hasegawa F-104C Starfighter. Miroslav did a very nice job on
the weathering and panel lines to give his Starfighter a more
realistic look.
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Sunday, Dec
12 2004
Kenya
Independence Day
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Colin
Whitehouse joins us
today with an article in honour of Thailand's national holiday on Dec
10th. This is Colin's 1/48
Revell F-5E
done up in Thailand Air Force markings. A
pleasing looking paint scheme.
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Stefan
Woltmann joins us
with his 1/48
Revell Dornier 217. I was impressed when I saw Stefan's
Do-217 and discovered this is his first model with an airbrush.
Stefan seems to have natural skill at using an airbrushing.
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Saturday, Dec
11 2004
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You can
now post pics to the ARC forums on the ARC servers. I've
finally finished uploading all the pics to the new ARC forums and triple
checking all 25,000 photos are there.
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Thursday, Dec
10 2004 Constitution
Day in Thailand
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Asif
Ali Akbar has
dropped by with his first article on ARC. This is Asif's 1/48
Revell Rafale M that
he finished using many techniques he learned on ARC. I loved how
it turned out. Welcome to ARC Asif!!!
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Fabrizio
Foletti is here with his
1/72
Hasegawa F-14D. Although Fabrizio built his
tomcat more or less out of the box....he did add a bit of aftermarket
detail items to get his F-14 looking exactly how he wanted.
Always a treat to see an F-14.
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Tuesday, Dec
7 2004
Pearl
Harbor 63rd Anniversary
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Guy
Wilson begins today
with his super detailed
1/32
Tamiya F-15E Strike Eagle. Guy used a variety of aftermarket
detail items and some good old fashioned modelling skills to turn out
a truly impressive F-15.
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Bob
Aikens is here with
his 1/72
AMT/ERTL Ju-88G-1/G-6 Nachtjager.
I've always had a fascination with night fighters and Bob did this one
up right. He's also included some excellent photos.
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Andy
Bannister is here
with his tiny 1/144
Revell MiG 1.44. As you look at
his MiG...remember...this little beauty is 1/144 scale.
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Monday, Dec
6 2004
Finland Independence Day
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Laurent
Boildieu has dropped by with
his 1/48
Gavia Lavochkin La-7. This is one of the more famous La-7's
of WW2 and is a treat to see the job Laurent did on
it.
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Guillermo
Alfaro is here with
his first article
on ARC. This is his 1/72 Academy
Super Etendard Malvinas/Falklands
war. Guillermo has provided background info about this
aircraft. Very nice to see.
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Girolamo
Lorusso is
here with his 1/32
Craftwork Macchi 200. This one has the impressive desert
camo scheme on a great display base as well.
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Sunday, Dec
5 2004 Thailand
National Day
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Mr
Apiruk begins today's special Thailand
update with his first article on ARC. This is his
1/48
Hasegawa F-16B. This
is a special Royal Thai AF Anniversary scheme using very colourful
Siamscale decals. Welcome to ARC!!
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Colin
Whitehouse joins us
with his prop entry for this special Thailand update. This is
Colin's 1/48
Aeroclub DHC Chipmunk
which
he used a selection of decals including some from Siam Scale Decals
out of Thailand. Very nice Colin....it's good to see a Chipmunk
in these markings.
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I
have a review of the 1/72
F-16A/B Royal Thai Air Force
decals from Siam Scale Decals. Siam scale is based in
Thailand, so they are very close to the source for these decals and
this particular sheet offers markings for 14 different Thailand
F-16A/B's.
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Saturday, Dec
4 2004
No update today....still doing those forum pics.
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Friday, Dec
3 2004
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I'm
finishing up the last of the uploading of the ARC Forum images...only
about 5,000 more images to go. But this is keeping me from
getting much done on the updates. I'm pushing hard to get this
over with as soon as possible.
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If you
are having problems logging into the ARC forums.....Your
problem is simple. Your computer is trying to log into the old
forum. Make sure you are using this URL http://s102164210.onlinehome.us/forums/index.php?s=5c1ccf131704ea58abef4e40c573798e
If
you still have problems....delete your temporary internet files by
doing the following... In IE, go to the menu bar at the top of
the browser, click Tools, and then Internet Options. From there, a
popup window will appear - click Delete Files and Delete Cookies, and
then in the next column down, click Clear History.
Then, when you come back to ARC, hold down the CTRL key and press F5.
This will force a full refresh of the page. This should do it. Contact
me if you still have problems after doing the above.
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Thursday, Dec
2 2004 Laos
Proclamation of the Republic
United Arab Emirates National Day |
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The
downloading of the forum images from the old server is complete. The
total was over 25,000 images and over 1.1 gigs of data. Well done
everyone......an don't worry ARC has unlimited space. I'm in the
process of almost uploading them.....once that is complete......I can
permit uploading of images again. The process is slow and it does
tie up my ARC computer making updates very difficult to get done on
time.....but it's getting there.
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Christian
Curec - aka Chris Cat is
here with an article for yesterday's National
Day in Romania.
This is his
1/48
Gavia Kozedub’s
Lavoshkin La-7
a lovely weathering job and equally fantastic
looking diorama base. This aircraft was flown by Ace
Ivan Kozhedub (the top scoring Ace of WW2.
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Philip
Jones is here today
with his 1/48
Hasegawa Phantom
FG Mk. 1. This is a RAF Phantom II and Philip has gone into
some great detail in his article how he achieved his impressive
results.
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Stuart Quinn-Harvie is
here with his first article on ARC. This is his 1/48
Academy Spitfire 14c in D-Day stripes and full weathering.
This Spitfire is built out of the box and the end result is very
nice indeed. Welcome to ARC Stuart.
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Prama
Sobari joins us
with his 1/72
Kopro MiG-19S done
up in Pakistani markings. Prama finished his Mig in a bare metal
finish.....this Mig looks fast even when it's parked....nice one Prama.
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Wednesday, Dec
1 2004 Romania
National Day
Central Africa National Day
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Meteor
Productions will be attending the Model Fest in College Park, MD on
Saturday, December 4th10AM-1PM (Opens at 9AM for Early Birds). the
location is the Holiday Inn at 10000 Baltimore Ave in College Park, MD,
United States. Click
here for a map. Here's your chance to do some Christmas shoping
for yourself.
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Ion
Tesu is here
to mark Romania's
National Day with his 1/32
Revell
Tornado. This jet might not be
a Romanian jet, but Ion is originally from Romania. His Tornado
is in German markings with aftermarket detail items. You'll
enjoy this one.
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Laurent
Boildieu joins us with
his 1/48
Hasegawa J2M6 Raiden. Laurent calls his article about his Raiden The
Last Samurai. He's
been busy detailing and weathering his Raiden to give it that realistic
look.
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Matthias
Simon joins us for the
first time with his 1/72
vacuformed Cornelius XFG-1 fuelglider from Airmodels.
Matthias has proved some good info about building this greaty looking
Vac-u-fomed model and if you've ever wondered "what's
involved"....you should read his article. Welcome to ARC
Matthias!!!
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Zotz
Decals has come out with a selection of 9
different Tee
shirts Tee-shirts
featuring artwork from their decals. These are 100% cotton
Tee-shirt and I've taken piles of photos of each shirt so you can see
the artwork on each of these comfortable Tee shirts.
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