Thursday,
June 30
2005
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Kapak Leung
starts today with
his first article on ARC. This is his
1/32 Revell Hawker Hunter.
The finished
Hunter came out looking very good and I look forward to seeing more of
his models on ARC. Welcome to ARC Kapek!!!
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Steve Hewitt
joins
us with his 1/48 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Bf 109F2.
Steve really likes these Hasegawa 109 and on this one he added an
Aires cokcpit as well as some other detailing to further improve his
109. The end result looks quite good.
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Alexandre Kostadinovic
is here with his 1/72 Yumo Soko G-4 Super Galeb.
Alexandre did some extra scratchbuilding to improve the smaller
details on this kit. The finished model is very realistic
looking.
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Eric Bade
has dropped by with
his 1/72 Hasegawa Dewoitine D-520.
This is one of the top French fighters during WW2 and Eric has chosen
the early war French markings.
Nice one Eric.....good to see.
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Wednesday,
June 29
2005
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Simone Pastorini starts
today with his first article on ARC. This is Simone's
beautifully finished 1/48 Hasegawa P-47D Thunderbolt.
Simone has gotten the look of this P-47
perfect. Welcome to ARC Simone!!!
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Virgil Manalo joins
us with his first article on ARC. This is Virgil's
excellently done Philippine Air Force1/48 Hasegawa F-8E
Crusader. He built his F-8 OOB
with some very fine weathering and finished it with Albatros
decals. Welcome to ARC Virgil!!!
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Eric Larger
is here with his 1/32 Hasegawa Fw190D-9
in the markings for II./JG301.
Eric put plenty of research and effort into building his big Dora and
you'll find his articles and photos quite interesting for his stunning
Fw-190.
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Diego Francone
joins
us with his impressive 1/72 Trumpeter Tu-16 Badger.
Although this is a 1/72 model.....this badger is quite large.
Nice one Diego....it's good to see your badger.
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Tuesday,
June 28
2005
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Bill Lachance is
here with another of his beauties. Bill's latest is this
1/48 Dragon Me 262B-1a/U1
which is not an easy kit to build but Bill not
only completed it but went far beyond that and turned out a scale
Me-262 materpiece.
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Michael Neradkov joins
us with his 1/48 Trumpeter P-40B Tomahawk IIA.
Michael finished of his P-40 with a bit of extra detailing then did a
weathering job that helps to show off the recessed detail on his
lovely model.
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Yu Guo is
here with his 1/72
Trumpeter Chinese New Fighter.
There were a few areas on this kit where the details needed a bit of
changing, but Yu tells about them in his article and the way to
improve these little details. This is quite the good looking
fighter.
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Daniel
is here with his big diorama about
Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Usually I try to not post armour models.......but occasional I break
that rule. Nice one Daniel....looks like it took quite a
bit of effort.
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Monday,
June 27
2005
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Jojo B Cruz
starts your week with his
1/72 Hasegawa F/A-18F Superhornet.
This jet is 1/72 but that didn't stop Jojo from doing up the
weathering to perfection. And consider this....it's brush
painted!! Stunning!!!
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Peter Brown is
here today with his 1/48 Eduard Hawker Tempest V.
I've got a big soft spot for these D-Day aircraft and Peter did this
one up right with chipped paint, weathering and fluid leak
stains.
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J.C. Bahr has
dropped by with his
1/72 Lockheed F-104C.
J.C. finished his F-104 in a baremetal finish using SNJ, which gave
him wonderful results. J.C. tells about building this model and
you'll find his pointers helpful if you ever build this kit.
Nice one J.C.
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Anthony Manzoli
is here today
with his 1/32 Revell Bf109 G-4 updated to G-6.
Anthony has a big talent for building models and this latest 109 is no
exception. Beautiful as always Anthony.
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Sun,
June 26
2005 Madagascar
Independence Day |
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No update today, I'm busy
working on my daughters Classroom CD Yearbook.
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Saturday,
June 25
2005
Mozambique Independence Day |
Croatia Independence Day
Slovenia National Day |
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Friday,
June 24
2005
Order of Malta -- St. John's Day
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Laurent Boildieu
is here with his 1/48 Hasegawa Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa.
Laurent has done an excellent job getting his Ki-43 to look just
right. He has provided some history about his Ki-43.
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Alex Bigey
is here with
his 1/72 Czech Master Supermarine
Scimitar. Alex was persistent with his
Scimitar and his efforts were rewarded with a very sleek and well
detailed model of this rare jet aircraft. Alex tells about the
history of the Scimitar in his article.
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Tolga Ulgur
joins us with his
1/48 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Bf-109 G10.
Tolga is a well known and much respected modeller on ARC and it's
always a treat to see his latest model on ARC. I enjoyed seeing
the panel line shading on Tolga's 109.
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Thursday,
June 23
2005
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Dave Cornett starts
today with his 1/32 German F-4F Phantom II Wild Horse.
Dave used some Eduard photo etch and other items to further detail his
big colourful Phantom to create his very striking jet.
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Patrick Bessonies
is
here with his 1/48 Hasegawa P47-D Thunderbolt.
Patrick has made very good use of the ARC Tools n Tips section when
building his P-47 and this shows in the very fine finished model he
created.
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Fernan De Gannes has
dropped by today with his
1/48 Hasegawa A-7D.
Fernan put plenty of very good effort into his
A-7 and although this is a very good kit, he has improved it in some
very important areas. Read his article for more into about
building his beautiful A-7.
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Russ Johnston has
done an amazing job on the big beautiful folded wing 1/32 Trumpeter F4F-4 Wildcat.
Russ explains the tricky process of modifying the folded wing on
this model so they look accurate and function as they should.
It's a great looking model and his article is full of helpful info.
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Wednesday,
June 22
2005
The
Invasion of Russia ( 1941)
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Craig Sargent joins
us from New Zealand 1/72 Hasegawa F-111G RAAF.
Craig did a very careful build of his F-111 to make sure he got as
many details correct as he could. His article provides aircraft
history as well as info on changes he made to this model to make his
RAAF F-111.
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Maneli Parsy is
here with his 1/72 Italeri P-51D.
Maneli spent 2 years building his Mustang.....without using an
airbrush.....the bare metal finish was all done with foil. The
finished model has quite the attractive bare metal finish.
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Yu Guo has dropped
by today with his 1/72 Trumpeter S-37 (Su-47)
'Berkut'. Yu built this beauty in just
20 days and in hi article he mentions a few of the things that aren't
quite right on the kit to help you if you decide to build one of these
beauties.
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Michael Woodgate
is here from
downunder with his 1/48 Hasegawa P-40E.
Michael used some Red Roo's Decals to finish his WW2 fighter and
finally finished it off with exhaust and gun powder
weathering. Nice one Michael.
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Jeff Selesky
has done a first class job on his 1/48 Tamiya Fw 190F8. Jeff
added a resin seat to improve the cockpit detailing and then finished
his 190 in the markings for the aircraft in the NASM. This is a
beautiful looking 190.
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Tuesday,
June 21
2005
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Kenny Loup begins
today with his 1/48 Hobbycraft Hawker Sea Hurricane.
Kenny did some extra work to make this a Sea Hurricane from the
Hobbycraft kit and finished it off with D-Day stripes....which is a
refreshing change from the usual Hurricane paint scheme.
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Polly Singh
is here with his 1/72 Indian MiG Collection.
I'm quite surprised by the variety of MiG's flown by the Indian Air
Force....Polly has put much effort into his Indian MiG
Collection. Quite the impressive sight.
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Raymond Utter joins
us today with his 1/72 Trumpeter Tu-142MR.
Raymond was determined to not have to do a bare metal finish on
his bear and he pulled it off. It's a real difference to see a
Bear in Grey paint.
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Phil Hastie is
here with his sweet looking 1/72 Hasegawa F-16A Blk 10
in South Carolina
ANG markings. Phil started working on this one a number of years
ago, so his article has the full story on that. But the effort
rewarded Phil with an attractive looking F-16.
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Pongpeera Thiapairat joins
us with his big 1/32 Revell Fw-190D9.
Pongpeera did some excellent work on the paint job on his
Dora....including painting most of the markings. Nice one
Pongpeera.
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Monday,
June 20
2005
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Simon Fong starts
your update today with his
1/48 HobbyCraft Me-109K-4.
Simon wasn't thrilled with this kit but that didn't stop him from
trying weathering for the first time and turning out a very sharp
looking 109.
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Sergio Baptista
joins us from Brazil with his big
1/32 Revell FAB Mirage III.
Sergio built his Mirage mostly out of the box and finished it with
weathering and the markings for the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) to
get a fine looking jet.
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I always love
these......here's Tony Crews ARC'ers page....complete
with photos of his modelling room and his family in front of his white
house. Tony's house looks familiar, but I can't recall where
I've seen it before......
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P. Laurent
is here with a review of
the
1/48 POMK Citroen,
which might be of interest to you for a WW2 diorama in
1/48.
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Sunday,
June 19
2005
Happy Fathers Day
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David Fredericks
starts the update this Fathers Day with
his 1/72 ESCI Armée de l’Air F100D.
David did some extra work to this older kit to bring it up to a higher
standard, then he finished it off in French Air Force markings on a
multi-shaded bare metal finish. Quite effective.
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Chris
Novak is here today
with another of his cut-away Bf-109's. This is Chris's
1/32
Hasegawa Bf-109 G6
with a cut-away wing and fuselage. Another beauty from
Chris.
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Saturday,
June 18
2005
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Lucio Zinato
is here with his
first article on ARC today. This is his 1/72 Revell Junkers Ju-290 A-5.
Lucio has over 200 hours into this model and it shows......amazing job
Lucio. welcome to ARC!!!
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J.C. Bahr
is here today with his
1/72 Hobbycraft F2H Banshee.
J.C. did some extra work to get his model looking right and he details
these things in his article. Nice one J.C.
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Laurent Boildieu
joins us with his 1/48 Dragon Fw 190A-8.
Laurent did one excellent weathering job on this
one.....the gun powder stains and exhaust stains look great.
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Friday,
June 17
2005
Iceland
-- Anniversary of the Establishment of the Republic
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I spent the day redoing the
ARC submission pages. I've
added images that will help to explain this simple process much
better. Please have a look.....I think you will be amazed how easy
it is to submit article to ARC.
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Thursday,
June 16
2005
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Tolga Ulgur
begins today with his 1/48 Monogram / Heinkel He-111 H 6.
Tolga did his usual excellent job on his He-111 and he was smart to
use the
Cutting Edge Black magic canopy mask for the greenhouse canopy.
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Jean-Luc Caut
is
here with photos of his 1/32 Black Box F-16C Cockpit.
You're going to love the detail of this finished cockpit set.
Jean-Luc has done an outstanding job on this one.
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Matt Bacon has
dropped by with his 1/48 Aeroclub DHC.1 Chipmunk.
Matt put the effort into this injection molded limited run kit.
Although this kit required a bit of effort, Matt's finished model was
well worth the effort.
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Jirka Vrabec joins
us today with his wildly painted
1/48 Italeri EF2000.
The
paint scheme on this one will make you grin....make sure you check out
the flame job.
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Yvan Vansteenkiste
is
here with his 1/35 Trumpeter Mil Mi-8.
van pre-shaded the panel lines and he's included pictures of what
pre-shading looks like as you do it. Yvan finished model
captures the look m of this chopper very well.
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Wednesday,
June 15
2005
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Charles E. Johnson starts
today with 2 of his 1/48 Academy
CH-46's. Charles built one in the 2
tone gray scheme and one on the desert scheme in USMC markings.
Both came out looking quite nice.
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Ridzuan Athly is
here with his first article on ARC. This is his
1/72 Academy F-14A Tomcat
done up in Jolly Rogers markings along with
weathering and a diorama. Welcome to ARC Ridzuan!!!
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Hal
Marshman, Sr. joins
us today with his 1/48 Hasegawa Bf-109G-6.
Hal has a passion for these big 109's and you
can see it in the finished models.
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PS is here with his 1/72 Fine Molds Jedi Starfighter.
These Fine Molds kits are very sweet and well worth buying if you like
Star Wars. PS did a great job on his starfighter. I
love Sci-Fi and this one rocks.
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Anthony Manzoli is
here from Australia with his 1/48 Tamiya Beaufighter.
Anthony's Beaufighter is beautifully finished with tail art in Aussie
markings from the RAAF during WW2.
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Paolo Yuen joins
us from Hong Kong with his 1/48 Academy Su-27 UB
that he
detailed with resin and photo etch parts and some subtle weathering to
finish off the Russian markings.
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Alex Popojan is
here with his Tools n Tips article about Real Metal Finish.
Yup....read his article and learn to use kitchen
foil for a realistic bare metal finish.
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Tuesday,
June 14
2005
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Craig Sargent starts
today with the final part of his 1/48 Monogram AV-8B Harrier II+
article. You'll enjoy seeing the rest of
Craig's full build conversion of his Harrier. This one is a
beauty.
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Rafi
Ben-Shahar joins
us with his 1/48 Dragon Ju 88A-17.
Rafi put plenty of effort into his Ju-88 as
you'll see in his article and then he finished it with one of the
trickiest paint schemes he could have chosen.
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Stephen Prior
is here with his 1/48 Tamiya F-84G Thunderjet.
Stephen built this one out of the box but the
high detail level of this kit gives very good results. He then
finished it off with very colourful markings.
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Phil Hastie is
here with his 1/48 Airfix Spitfire Vb
. This particular Spitfire was flown by a
New Zealander. Phil cut open the door on his Spit which always
improves the ability to see into the cockpit. Nice job on the
detailing ands weathering Phil.
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Jed ‘Jedi’ Jenson joins
us with his 1/32 Tamiya F-16CJ.
This model looks exactly like the real thing in every way....check out
the cockpit and especially the landing gear bays.
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Marcelo
Irigoyen joins
us from Argentina
with his Scratchbuilt 1/16 Bell UH-1H.
I can't even imagine the effort to scratchbuild such a model....well
done Marcelo.
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Monday,
June 13
2005
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Sören Bartusch
is here again today with his
1/48 Eduard Pfalz D.III.
This time his article has the missing text .....if you open his
article an don't see the text....hit your refresh button.
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Polly Singh is here
with his 1/48 Monogram Bf 109E and 1/48 Dragon Battle of Britain Luftwaffe day fighter crew
in a diorama he calls "JG 26 at
Wissant" . And yes....Adolf Galland is in the
diorama. Nice one Polly!!!
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Fariborz “Fred” Shammas
is here with
another of his Iranian beauties. This is his
1/48 Hasegawa and Academy/Minicraft F-14A
done up to his usual high standards with very realistic photos.
We should all try to do photos like Fred....I must try myself to do my
photos like his.
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David Bailey
joins us with
a historical artifact. This is a DeHavilland
Mosquito that was hand carved by unknown
gentleman for his Mom during WW2. Very cool David......give our
very best to your Mom.
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Sunday,
June 12
2005
Philippines Independence Day |
Russia National Day |
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Às de Espadas
joins us with a
beautifully built 1/48 Tamiya Focke Wulf 190 D9.
This Fw-190 was built out of the box and it came out looking very
good.
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Laurent Boildieu
is here with his
1/48 ICM Spitfire.
Laurent built his Spitfire with some photo etched seatbelts and the
perfect amount of weathering in all the right places.
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Saturday,
June 11
2005
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Lance Braman
joins us with his
aircraft related model. This is his
1/72 Revell
Sd.Kfz. 9 Famo with 8.8cm Flak 36 anti-aircraft
gun from WW2. This model required much effort and
scratchbuilding on by lance to create this effective and quite nasty
weapon. Nice one Lance.
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J.C. Bahr joins
us with his 1/72 Hasegawa Me-262a.
This is a model of the actual 262 at the NASM.
J.C. did a splendid job on his 262.
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David Fredericks
joins us with his
1/72 Gabon Air Force Skyraider ‘Last Spads’
. This is a Spad flown during the
'80's. David goes into the background of the aircraft and the
building process for his attractive looking Spad.
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Friday,
June 10
2005
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Sören Bartusch
starts today
with his 1/48 Eduard Pfalz D.III.
This one captures the look of this WW1 fighter very well.
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Yufei Mao is
here with his 1/48
Trimaster/Dragon Ta 152H. Yufei did a
very impressive weathering job on this one.....make sure you have a
look at the underside as well.
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Sean Carter
has dropped by with
his 1/32 Revell He 162 A2 Salamander.
Sean build his big Salamander straight out of the box with no
aftermarket goodies....but he did finish it off with the engine
exposed to show off the kit engine.
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Pre-orders are now
being taken through
Mushroom Models Publications website for
the new book Mirage IIIO book...."A Pictorial History of the
Colours and Markings of the Mirage
IIIO" . Go
to this link for more info.
This book has 780
colour and 50 black and white photographs and was written by Paul
Mason and Darren Mottram.
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Thursday,
June 9
2005
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Geoff
Pereira starts off
today with his 1/48 Academy Me-109 G6.
Geoff built his 109 out of the box.....but that didn't prevent him
from getting a attractive looking model of this famous Luftwaffe
fighter.
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Dan Salamone
is
here to give you a look at his 1/48 Hasegawa A6M5 Zero nightfighter.
Dan is no stranger to building perfect looking models and his Zero is
no exception. This special night fighter version required some
work to create and Dan talks about this in his article.
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Charles Leung
has
dropped by with his
1/72 Trumpeter J-10A.
This is the new Chinese fighter and Charles detailed the look of his
J-10A into a great looking model of this jet fighter.
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Albert Moore has
been busy building his 1/72
Italeri MH-47E Chinook.
Albert did a bunch of work to modify his Chinook into a MH-47E.
Albert goes into detail in his article about what was involved to
build this gem.
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Bob Laskodi is
here to help shed a bit of light on the F-14A
“Lantirn” issue
with his 1/48 Hasegawa F-14A.
Bob definitely understands how to build an excellent looking
F-14.
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Tony Edmundson joins
us with a review of his newly acquired
1/48 Hobbycraft Tutor
in Canadian
Snowbirds markings.
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Wednesday,
June 8
2005
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Ivan
Rich with IPMS-St.
Louis is here with
his latest model. This is his 1/48
Revell F-102A Delta Dagger built almost out of the box with
some aftermarket decals. A great looking model of a classic
jet.
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Tolga Ulgur
joins us with his
1/48 Tamiya P- 51K Mustang Mk IV.
Tolga used some resin detail items to improve the detail of his
Mustang.....then he finished it off with a highly skilled
airbrushing.
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Paolo Yuen is
here with his 1/144 Revell Chinook HC.1 RAF.
This is one very tiny chopper, but Paolo didn't let that stop him from
add outstanding detailing and weathering.
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Darwin Evelsizer has
been busy creating his 1/72 Italeri SR-71C.
This is the special 2 seat trainer and Darwin combined 2 kits and did
extra work and explains the process of building his beautifully done
SR-71.
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David Horn is here with
his ARC'ers
page.....you
should see his House!!! And an impressive kit stash.
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Tuesday,
June 7
2005
US Carrier Yorktown sunk
(1942)
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Norway
separates from Sweden. 100 years ago
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Nils Mathisrud is
here today with his
1/144 Minicraft DC-6B
to mark the 100th
Anniversary of the termination of the Union of Norway and
Sweden. Nils made his own SAS airline decals to make his model
more accurate.
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Bert
Legaspi is here with his big
1/32
Tamiya F-16CJ.
Bert got this kit as a present from his wife.....she sounds like a
keeper to me. Bert persisted on this big well fitting kit and
turned out an outstanding F-16.
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Marcos Bonfim joins
us with his 1/24 Trumpeter ME-109 G-6.
Marcos wasn't satisfied with just building his 109......he wanted to
display it in a diorama. The completed diorama of Marcos's
109 in Erich
Hartmann
markings looks great.
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Charlie Johnson
is here with his 1/72 Heller E8C J-STARS.
Charlie used the Flightpath conversion set to make his J-Stars.
Then he took some very effective in-flight photos of his well done
model.
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Evgeny
Dedigurov joins us
today with his 1/72
AMODEL Antonov
An-22 "Antei".
Evgeny has a skill for building Russian aircraft as you'll see in his
latest model article on ARC.
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Scott Brown is
here with his 1/32
Hasegawa/Minicraft F/A-18 in
the special 20th anniversary markings for the RAAF. Scott hand
painted all the markings. Check out his walkaround pics below
for this aircraft.
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Caz
Dalton joins us
with his Tools n Tips article about How
to Make Model Bases.
Caz walks you through the process to add a display base to your
model.
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I
have a review of the new 1/48 Black
F-14 FOD Covers -
from Steel
Beach Accessories. Now you have a way to cover up the jet
intakes and not bother with intake seams.
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Monday,
June 6
2005
Sweden
National Day
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D-Day Allied Landings in France in 1944 |
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Pete
Hudson, Wayne Beattie, Greg Wise, Al Davis, Bill Calzada, Mike Bates,
Brian Acker, Jeff Pereira, Alan Lacey have
been busy enjoying the 2005
ARC D-Day Group Build. Special Thanks to Jim
Fox for all his
effort in this Group Build.
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Thomas Olsson is
here with his very well done 1/72 Gladiator in Swedish/Finnish service.
A Swedish update would be incomplete without at least one model on
skis in the snow. Beautiful job on this one Thomas.
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Björn Bäcklund
has a
selection of two 1/72 Heller SAAB 29 Tunnan
in UM markings. Björn
did some work to backdate one of his models to an earlier version of
this aircraft.
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Stefan Eriksson is
here with his 1/48 Tamiya P-51D Mustang (J26).
Stefan has included some history in his
article....including a connection to Israel. Stefan did a nice
bare metal finish on this one.
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Per Börjeson is
here with a 1/72 Marivox Saab S 17BS
diorama. This is a very attractive
looking model of this float plane.
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Björn Bäcklund has
his 1/72 Revell Junkers F.13
for you to see. Björn
made his own decals
and scratch built some detail on his F.13.
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Mats Lindegren
joins us with his
1/72 Hasegawa SAAB J35J Draken.
The Draken is a uniquely striking aircraft from
any angle and Mats has done his up right.
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Sunday,
June 5
2005
Denmark
Constitutional Day
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Seychelles Liberation Day |
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Konrad de Vries begins
today with his first model and his first article on ARC. Konrad
is 11 years old and I am very pleased to have his 1/72
Horten Ho-229 on
ARC today. He picked an great looking aircraft....and he did do
a fine job on it. Welcome to ARC Konrad!!!
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Shawn 'Phantom' Weiler is
here with his big 1/48
Italeri CC-130H Hercules. Shawn did a
pile of searching to find the various decal to make up the marking for
his big Canuck Herc. Nice one Shawn.
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Scott Minium is
here with his 1/48 Hasegawa A-4M 'Bulldog'.
Scott built this A-4 for his Dad whoi use to fly A-4's with the
USMC. Read his article for more info......I bet his Dad liked
it....cool gift.
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Nick Monopoli is
here with his 1/72 Pavla Bell 47
done up in
MASH markings. This is one tiny but well detailed little chopper
thanks to Nicks careful work and some scratchbuilding.
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Saturday,
June 4
2005
Battle
of Midway (1942)
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Fanch
is first up today with his 1/32 Hasegawa Bf-109 K-4.
Fanch used resin and photo etch detail parts to further detail his big
109. He's included 54 pics showing all the glorious detail on
this 109.
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Stephen Cornett joins us with his big 1/32 Tamiya
F-14D.
Stephen finished his weathered F-14D in marking for VF-31 and added a
full weapons load and RBF tags.
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Rolando Raffaut is
here with his first article on ARC....and what a model it is.
This is his 1/48 Tamiya A-1H Skyraider
with the Cutting
Edge wingfold conversion and so much more. This one will blow
you mind. Welcome to ARC Rolando!!!
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Aamod Potdar is
here with his first article on ARC. This is his
1/72 Balsa wood Sukhoi-30
in markings for the Indian Air Force. Working with Balsa is very
difficult and Aamod goes into detail about the process.
Welcome to ARC Aamod!!!
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Friday,
June 3
2005
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Scott Minium
starts today with his
1/48 Revell F-8 Crusader.
Scott chose some colourful USMC markings
for his Crusader from the Vietnam War era. Nice one Scott.
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J.C.
Bahr is here
with his 1/72
Tamiya Spitfire Mk.Vb done up in desert camo.
J.C. built his good looking Spit mostly right out of the box and
enjoyed the process.
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Karl
W Branson joins us with his
1/72
WhirlyKits Avro 707B.
Karl goes into great details about how he built his fantastic
model.
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Kevin Martin
is here with
his 1/32 Hasegawa Me109 "Von Hammer".
This is not your average 109 and I think you'll all enjoy the
change. This is a darn fine looking 109.
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Erickson Ong
joins us with his
1/72 Italeri F-18E Superhornet.
Erickson persisted and not only finished this
kit but turned out a nicely weathered model.
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Bill Lachance
finishes up
today's gallery articles with his 1/48 ProModeler Ta 154.
You all know Bill's quality level....so sit back and enjoy.
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Thursday,
June 2
2005
Italy
National Day
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Arseny starts
today with his 1/48
Hasegawa Bf-109G-6.
I an speechless at the high quality of weathering on this 109.
You'll enjoy this one.
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Raymond Utter
is here today with
his 1/48
Academy Uzbek MiG-29. Raymond added
details parts to get a great looking cockpit and a very well done set
of engines.
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Zheng Wang
has dropped by with
his 1/72 Hasegawa I-16.
This is an early Russian Monoplane with a finely applied exhaust
stains.
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Jeffry Hutama
is here with his
1/32
Hasegawa F-16A Falcon. This particular
F-16 is full of added detailing and it looks perfect. The
markings are for Indonesia.
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Joe Youngerman
is here
with his
1/72 Tamiya P-47D Thunderbolt.
Joe added details to this exquisite little kit to further add to the
detail.....then he finished it off in a multi-shades bare metal
finish.
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Wednesday,
June 1
2005
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Western
Samoa Independence Celebration Day
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No
update today.....I was busy tending to some projects around our
house.
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