Sunday, Oct 31 2004
Halloween!!!! |
Today
has been very busy at the ARC corporate offices with seemingly
endless pumpkin carving (using an thin bladed X-Acto saw) along with
the usual over-excitement my two young kids are prone to during any
kid type holiday. So as you can imagine there's not too much
of an update today. Tonight, I get to freeze for a few hours
walking door to door with my kids getting candy.......this
experienced is further enhanced by listening to my wife tell me how
cold she is and how she should have dressed warmer etc.
On the housing
front.....we've accepted a very good offer on our old house after
being on the market for 3 days....so I'm quite distracted in a good
way about that development. Houses on that street usually sell
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Saturday, Oct
30 2004
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Petr Kácal
starts part 2 of the Czech Republic
National day with his 1/72
RVHP Avia BH-7A. Definitely a brightly coloured little
plane.
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Petr Kácal
is here with his 1/72
MiKu LF-107 "Lunak". I'm starting to think the
folks in the Czech Republic enjoy gliders.
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Friday, Oct
29 2004
Turkey Republic Day
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H.Ufuk
Aydiner has
sent in an article about his 1/48 Revell
F-4E 2020 "Terminator". This article shows the
model which was presented to the TuAF Commander Gen. H. Ibrahim
Firtina who is also a F-4E pilot.
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H.Ufuk
Aydiner has
sent in an article about his 1/48
Tamiya Fw-190Aa3. Another good looking Fw-190 from H.Ufuk.
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Rahmi Kocaman
has
sent in an article about his 1/48
Tamiya Spitfire Mk. Vb. Take a close look at the
weathering on this one.......very well done.
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Thursday, Oct 28 2004
Czech Republic National Day
Greece Natioanl Day
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WOW!!!
There was a huge selection of articles sent in for the Czech Republic
National day. I'll run some of the articles today and the rest
tomorrow or the next day. Well done everyone!!!
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Charles
P. Kalina has been
a big enthusiast of marking the Czaech national Day each year and
today he is here with his
Third-Annual
1/72 Scale Tribute
for the Czech
National Day 2004.
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Pavel
Krejci is here with
his 1/48
Planet Models L-29 Delfin.
This is a very popular Czech jet trainer. This model is
beautifully finished and has some very interesting markings.
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Martin
Decarli has
sent in an article about his 1/48
Planet Model Ar-396. Martin has
included some interesting history about this wooden aircraft.
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Milan
Simr has dropped by
with his 1/48
KOPRO MiG-21R. milan did a large amount of detailing and
weathering on model and finished it off with a great looking
diorama.
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Petr Kácal
is here with his
1/72
KP Avia BH-3. This one has quite the paint scheme.....a good
looking model of this odd looking aircraft.
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Michal Dub has
sent in an article about his 1/72
Italeri C-47. Fine looking C-47 Michal.....I never knew the
Czech Republic flew the C-47.
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Martin
Decarli has
sent in an article about his 1/48
Planet Models L-29 Delfin. Martin
has included some good history about this popular jet trainer.
Beautifully done model.
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Wednesday, Oct
27 2004
Saint Vincent and the Grenaidines Independence Day |
Turkmenistan
National Day
Ecuadorian Airforce Day |
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No
update today. I finally got the realtor over yesterday to
shoot photos of our old house (he had the flu last week).
Shooting the photos involved a last final push to get everything
perfect for the photos......power washing and planting winter
bedding plants etc. I then had to work in the evening at my
job and was too burnt out to do anything except get home and crawl
into bed. Today I'll be at the old place to cut the lawns and
empty out the garage of the last of our stuff. There is a big
update planned for tomorrow.
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Tuesday, Oct
26 2004
Austria
National
Day
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Shawn
'Phantom' Weiler is
here with his 1/32
Tamiya Phantom And Friends
article.
This F-4 is finished in Jolly Rogers markings and Shawn also includes
pics of his 1/48 and 1/72 F-4's.
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Tom Wilson has
dropped by with pics of his
1/48
Tamiya AH-1J Skyraider. Tom preshaded the panel lines and
did an excellent job on the exhaust stains. A very nice
Skyraider.
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Malcolm
Reid is
here with his 1/48
Academy Mig-21MF. Malcolm added
a resin cockpit and other details to improve this kit, then he
finished off his MiG-21 in Soviet markings. Impressive.
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Hector
Lopez is here with
his first article on ARC today. Hector joins us from Mexico with
his 1/48
Aeroteck Pilatus PC-7 Turbotrainer. It's always good to see
some FAM aircraft on ARC. Welcome to ARC Hector!!!
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Yoav
Efrati is here with a
review of the 1/48 IAF-31 and 1/72 IAF-32 Decal Sheets for Israeli Air Force Mystere IV from IsraDecal.
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Monday, Oct 25 2004
Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war
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Stephen
Cornett begins your week with his highly
detailed 1/32
Revell F-15B-4-MC.
You've got to check out the cockpit on this one. Stephen
did this jet perfectly from end to end.
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Dan
Tompos is
here with his first article on ARC. This is Dan's
1/48
Italeri F-5E done
up in one of the more attractive camo patterns worn by US F-5's.
Welcome to ARC Dan!!!
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Brad
Guy is here
with his first article on ARC. This is Brad's 1/48
Monogram P-47 that he
built straight out of the box.
The airbrushing on Brad's P-47 came out very well.....including the
exhaust stains. Welcome to ARC Brad!!!
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Sunday, Oct
24 2004
Zambia
Independence Day
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Dennis Weber
is here with his 1/48
Hobbycraft Bf-109E-3. Dennis has provided a good article and
some great photos (including an appealing in-flight photo) of his
109.
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Kairasp
Daruwala has
dropped by with his 1/48
Airfix Sea Harrier "FA2". Kairasp has added a full
weapons load and other details to his Harrier. Always good to
see the RN Harriers.....they aren't too common on ARC.
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Saturday, Oct
23 2004
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Suresh Patel begins
today's update with his
1/72
Airfix Avro Vulcan. Suresh had a challenging time building
his Vulcan, but you can read all about his adventure in his
article....he got there in the end.....his Vulcan came out looking
very good.
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Meesha
is here with his first article on ARC. This is his heavily weathered 1/48
Gavia La-7 profi-pack. The photos in this article are a
treat to see....and Meesha's article is quite informative as
well. Welcome to ARC Meesha!!!
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Friday, Oct
22 2004
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Bill
Lachance begins
todays update with another of his scale beauties. This is Bill's
1/48
Accurate Miniatures IL-2 Stormovik and he's included some
close up cockpit photos from before he closed up the fuselage.
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Erik
Wauters is here
with another of his 1/144 wonders. this is Erik's
1/144
Revell Rafale M with preshaded panel lines. If you've never
tried 1/144....you should...they area blast to build.
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Jeff
Brundt
has dropped by with
his 1/48
Hasegawa Hs-129B-1.
Jeff has also sent in a very detailed article about the build process
of his impressive Hs-129.
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Graham
Symmonds has been
busy building his diorama for his
1/48
Hasegawa AV-8B Harrier II.
This model looks perfect and the figures and base set it off very
well.
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Thursday, Oct 21 2004
Somalia National Day
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Trafalgar Day -- Royal Navy Anniversary |
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Jansens Dirk begins
today's update with his 1/32
Tamiya F-4J Phantom. Jansens finished his F-4 in markings
for 74 Sqn UK.
This BIG Beautiful Phantom uses aftermarket goodies from a variety of
companies.
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Jakub
Vilingr is here
with his wonderfully done
1/48
Dragon Junkers Ju 88 G-1. Although the fit of this
kit isn't flawless, Jakub did build it up very well and ended up with
a excellent looking ju-88 model.
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*Shasper* Bud Sliger
has been busy building his 1/72
Italeri F-5F's in
his article he calls "Oh *blank* there's 2 of 'em!". This
will be of much interest to any fans of the movie "Top Gun".
Very nicely done and enjoyable to see.
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Wednesday, Oct
20 2004 Between the old house and my job I
had no time for ARC yesterday. The realtor comes today to shoot
photos for the ad. We'll be doing the last of the work on the old
place today.
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Tuesday, Oct
19 2004
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I've added
the IPMS (UK) Warrington
website to the ARC links pages.
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Miroslav Adamovic
is here with his first article on ARC. This is his impressively
weathered 1/48
Hasegawa F-8E Crusader. Welcome to ARC Miroslav.
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Juri Kulikov is here
from Russia with his first article on ARC. This is his
1/72
Scratchbuilt Bleriot XI. this model contains 540
parts.....quite a few....especially for 1/72. This model is also
for sale if you're interested. Welcome to ARC Juri.
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Monday, Oct
18 2004
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I'm
almost finished the work on my old house. I spent Saturday
installing new down pipes for the roof gutters. Sunday was
spent power washing in a rain storm. I work long shifts at my
job on the weekends, so doing updates the last 2 days was too much
to attempt. With luck we'll have our old house up for sale on
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First up
today.....I'd like to remind folks in the St
Pete Beach, Florida, USA area that the Pelikan
Model Club is having
their IPMS Regional
contest on Oct 23 &
24. Visit their website at http://www.percongrp.com/pelikan.htm
for more info.
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Shahrukh
Ali is here with
his first model article on aRC. He's from Pakistan so model products
are very hard to find. These are his
1/72
F-4M/K Phantoms and I hope you'll enjoy them. Welcome to ARC
Shahrukh!!!
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Yuval
Kizner is here with
a very cool looking 1/72
Roden An-12. Check out the photos of
this model in the dark....very interesting indeed.
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Friday, Oct
15 2004
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David
Longhitano is here with his
very striking 1/48
Italeri Mirage 2000C. David went the extra mile to get the
details looking right on his Mirage. Quite the attractive camo
scheme as well.
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Francisco
Colaço has dropped by with his 1/48
Tamiya P-47 D. Frtancisco finished his P-47 in the markings
of the famous American pilot Francis S. Gabreski. This
model includes weathering as well.
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Joe
Williamson is here with
his 1/48
Panda F-35. Joe did some
very effective detailing to the cockpit that he details in his
article.....his article is a helpful read.
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Ercan
Karakas has been busy
making his 1/48
MPM Diorama of Messerschmitt Bf-109 T2. The MPM kit that
requires more effort to get a good looking model. Ercan added some
scratchbuilt details and aftermarket parts to get his Bf-109T looking just
right.
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Thursday, Oct
14 2004 No update today.
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Wednesday, Oct
13 2004 US
Navy's birthday
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The 2nd IPMS-Philippines BERT ANIDO
Nationals Open will be on
October 11-17,2004. For more information you can click
here. You can also go to the IPMS-Philippines
Bert Anido Chapter website.
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Eduard
Boxem
has created 1/144
Space Shuttle & 747 combo.
This 747 with a shuttle on it's back has always impressed me and it's
a special treat to see someone build up this combo.
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Jeremy
Neo is here with
his 1/48
Bearcat F8F-2. Jeremy has included some background info on
the bearcat. I enjoyed the folded wings and full weapons
load.
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Henry
Juarez is here with
his 1/48
Monogram A-37B Dragonfly.
Henry rescribed the raised panel lines and used a Blackbox cockpit and
finally finished his A-37 in Peruvian
Air Force decals from Albatros.
A beautifully done A-37.
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Tuesday, Oct
12 2004
Spain
National Day
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Terrorist Bombing in Nightclub Bali, Indonesia (2002) |
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Kairasp
Daruwala joins
us with his 1/48
Monogram "AV-8B".
Kairasp finished his Harrier in USMC markings and a full weapons
load. He's also provided some background information on the
Harrier.
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Dennis Weber has
finished his 1/48
Seversky P-35A, Swedish
J9.
You'll find his articles full of great photos of his P-35 as well as
some interesting background information on this aircaft.
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Graham
Tarran has
finished his 1/48
Aeroclub De Havilland Venom FB4.
If you're from the UK....then the Venom is one cool looking plane
worthy of adding to your display cabinet. Graham has also
included historical info on the Venom. Good to see one of these
built up.
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Monday, Oct
11 2004
Canada Thanksgiving Day |
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The
ARC domain name was renewed this past weekend, but everything wasn't
done correctly by the hosting company. This meant many ARC
regulars (including myself) were unable to visit the ARC home
page. Everything seems to be fixed now.
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Paul "Spooky" Goodman
is here with his
first article on ARC. This is Paul's
1/72
Heller F-5 done up in a cool looking paint scheme. welcome
to ARC Paul!!!
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Andy
Bannister has
finished build his 1/72
High Planes Smirnoff Bearcat.
Andy has done a perfect job on the exhaust stains on his
bearcat. His article includes a good
deal of information about building his special bearcat.
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Girolamo
Lorusso has dropped
by with his 1/48 Mirage
2000c in Tiger meet markings. Girolamo used
some Twobobs
stencils and custom draw the tiger head himself.
Amazing.
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Sunday, Oct
10 2004
Republic of China
National Day
Fiji National Day |
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I
have only now been able to access ARC. ARC seems to be working
for some parts of the planet and not others. I've been back
and forth with tech support all weekend trying to resolve this
problem. Work at my old house continues and I see light
at the end of this long job that started in early July.
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Friday, Oct
8 2004
Croatia Independence
Day
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Dieter Rutzinger is
here with his first article on ARC. This is his
1/33
Paper Model A-10(Z), which is one very large and cool looking
model. Welcome to ARC Dieter!!!
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Mike Williams
is here with his super
detailed 1/24
Airfix Hawker Hurricane Mk.1.
Mike goes into lots of detail about his carefully detailed Hurricane in his
article.
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Maurizio Bressan has
dropped by with his wonderful 1/48
Academy SU-27 Flanker.
Maurizio added aftermarket detail items as well as scratchbuilt items
to his fine looking Su-27.
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Thursday, Oct
7 2004
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Chris
Kethan is here to
get things started today with his very well done
1/48
Tamiya FW-190 D9. Chris added a resin cockpit to his
Dora. This is Chris' first article on ARC and I hope to see more
of his work in the future.
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John
Snell is here with his "what
if" 1/48
F-15 ACTIVE II.
Check out the weapons load on his F-15.....John has been very creative
in his story for this one.
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Jeremy
Neo is here with
his 1/48
Special Hobby Junkers
Ju-87A2. This kit is best suited for more advanced modellers.....but
that was not a problem for Jeremy as you can see by his fine early
Stuka.
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Bill
Retoff is here with
his 1/72
Revell F-89J. Bill
built this one out of the box and used SNJ to get his excellent bare
metal finish.
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Wednesday, Oct
6 2004
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Raymond
Utter begins
today's update with his
1/48
OEZ SU-7.
Beautiful looking desert camo scheme.
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Andy
Stark is here with
his 1/48
Aurora F-4H1.
This is one of the earliest F-4's and Andy built it with this very old
Aurora kit. Definately a colourful looking F-4. Andy
provides full details about building this model.
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Tuesday, Oct
5 2004
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Keith Kozlowski kicks
things off today with his first article on ARC. this is Keith's very
colourful 1/48
DML SPAD XIII.
I love the paint scheme on this one. Welcome to ARC Keith!!!
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James Byrne
is here with his first article on ARC. This is his beautifully done
1/12
Italeri F-16 cockpit.
A very cool looking model. Welcome to ARC James!!!
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Alexander
Sazonov joins
us from Lithuania with his first article on ARC. This is his 1/72
Zvezda MiG 1.44.
Alexander did some scratchbuilding to improve his very well done MiG.
Welcome to ARC Alexander!!!
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Monday, Oct
4 2004
Lesotho National
Day
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My
apologies to everyone in Germany.....I was unable to do my usual
special update yesterday for Germany, I'm quite overworked with
house projects.
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Stewart
Griffiths is here
with his 1/48
Sanger TSR2 and 1/48
Dynavector TSR2. This article was supposed to be on
ARC or the 40th
Anniversary of its 1st Flight on the 27th September 1964....but I've
been very busy and and forgot. Cool that he finished both of
these kits so well.
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Dmitriy
Shapiro is here
with 1/144 Minicraft
Tu-22M3 Backfire Part 1. I ran part2 of this article a few
days ago.....seems I've not run this first part yet.....I'll be glad
when I get these house projects done soon and I can focus on
ARC.
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Laurent
"Angus" Beauvais is
here with his 1/48
Tamiya Aichi D3A1 Val.
Angus built this baby out of the box and had some fun doing the
weathering.
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I've
added Dave
Roof's e-mail
address to his write-up about him setting up a hobby club there for the troops
in Bagram, Afghanistan. Click
here for Dave's write-up that was posted on Saturday.
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Sunday, Oct
3 2004
Germany
National
Day
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Saturday, Oct
2 2004
Guinea
Independence Day
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Dave
Roof has
arrived in Bagram, Afghanistan with the US military. He's
hoping to set up a hobby club there for the troops and he is
hoping for some support from the ARC readership. Click
here for more details from Dave Roof.
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Friday, Oct
1 2004 People's
Republic of China National Day
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Cyprus Independence Day Nigeria Independence Day |
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I
spent my ARC time last evening answering some of the many e-mails piling
up in my inbox. I'm focusing the next few days in attempting to
catch up on the 700 e-mails in my inbox and continuing the work on my old
house to try to get it up for sale as soon as possible.
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