Wednesday,
Nov 30
2005 Barbados
National
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Scotland - St. Andrew's Day |
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Calum Gibson
starts today with his
1/48 Revell A-7E Corsair II.
Calum did a bunch of extra work to improve the detail on his A-7 and
then finished it off in Gulf War markings.
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Tuesday,
Nov 29
2005
Albania
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Armin Knes
starts today with his 1/28 Revell Fokker Dr.I.
Armin did some scratch building to improve the detail of this 50
year old model kit.
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Kaan Gök
stopped by the ARC Corporate
offices with his 1/48 Revell F-15I. Kaan
has created another of his beauties. On this F-15I, Kaan added a
resin cockpit set from Aires and did other detailing.
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Monday,
Nov 28 2005
Mauritania
Independence Day
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Henk Hirs
is here with some photos from this years' Euro scale
modelling/ Dutch IPMS Nationals. There
was a good variety of models on display including a big airport
display that will be of special interest to the airliner modellers.
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Alex Campbell
is here with his 1/72 Italeri A-7E- Corsair II.
Alex built his Corsair II basically out of the box, but his article
does tell about building this particular kit.
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Michael R. Muth
joins us with
his 1/48
Eduard Albatros D-III. This particular
plane belonged to one of the elite fighter units during
WW1.....Michael's article tells more about this aircraft and building
this model.
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Stephen Prior
joins us with his
1/48 AMT Lockheed S-3B Viking.
This particular Viking model sports the colourful Twobobs decals and
Darren Roberts Steel Beach FOD covers.
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Nathan Bradford
is here with
his sharp looking 1/48 Tamiya Mustang Mk 3.
Nathan tells about some the battle history of this Mustang and the
exploits of the pilot.
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Sunday,
Nov 27 2005
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Li Weiguang
begins today with
his 1/48 Academy F86-F-30.
This one has a very well done multi-shade bare metal finish and cool
looking nose art.
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Saturday,
Nov 26 2005
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Bret Xu
is
here with his big beautiful 1/32 Tamiya F-15E Strike Eagle.
Bret spend a year building his Strike eagle and he ended up with a
very fine looking model.
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Friday,
Nov 25 2005
Suriname Independence
Day
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Geoffrey Matheson
joins us with his
very well done
1/72 Tamiya Bf109E-3.
I had the honour to meet Geoffrey and his Dad at the US National IPMS
convention in Atlanta.
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Fernan DeGannes
joins us with his
stunning 1/35 MRC OH-58D Kiowa.
Fernan added
plenty of scrathcbuilt detail and an impeccable paint job.
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Cyril Worley
is here from
Malta with his 1/48 Hasegawa Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B.
Cyril added extra details to his Typhoon to get this fine looking
Typhoon and it's very engaging diorama.
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Thursday,
Nov 24 2005
Thanksgiving Day --
USA
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Tolga Ulgur
is here with his 1/48 Tamiya Vought Corsair F4 U1.
Tolga has included some excellent photos of the cockpit as well as the
beautifully weathered underside.
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Jeffry Hutama
joins us with
his 1/32 Revell
MIG-29UB. Jeffry did some added
detailing on his big MiG.
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Chris St.Clair
is here with his 1/72 KP Aero L-39C Albatross.
This is one of the more interesting markings options I've seen for
this jet. Nice one Chris.
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Rafi
Ben-Shahar is here with his 1/48 Me
262A-1a/3U.
You'll love to get a close look and read about his painting technique.
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Wednesday,
Nov 23 2005
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Gabriel Stern begins
today's update with a 1/72 Airfix Short Stirling.
Gabriel has written his article in the usual colourful way I enjoy so
much. Fine looking model as well......despite the kit he
used.
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Hevesi István
is
here with his big 1/48 Revell B-1B Lancer.
Yikes.....I can't believe he finished this monster. His
scratchbuilding really adds to this fine looking model.
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Shalom Yair
joins us from
Israel with
his 1/35 Dragon SS-1c Scud b.
Shalom built his scud mostly out of the box but that didn't prevent
him from ending up with a great looking model of this well known
missile launcher.
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Gabriel Stern
has dropped
by with his 1/72 PM Focke Wulf TA 183.
This was a somewhat challenging model to build, but Gabriel did
overcome things and end up with a fine looking
model.
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Tuesday,
Nov 22 2005 Lebanon
National Day 2005
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Emad Tabsh
is here from
Lebanon with his 1/48 FM Mirage IIIE Part 1.
Emad tells about the history of this aircraft with the Lebanese air
force.
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Emad
Tabsh has sent in some MB 339
walkaround photos of the Italian
Frecce Tricolori aerobatic display team.
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Monday,
Nov 21 2005
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Jorge Bonilla Alvarado
joins us with
his colourful 1/48 Academy MiG-29A.
Jorge custom made the decals for his colourful MiG.
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Rodrigo Rendon
is here with
his 1/48 Hasegawa A-7 Corsair II.
Rodrigo went the extra mile to careful weather and add weapons to his
A-7 and then he displayed it on a well done display base.
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Sunday,
Nov 20 2005 Mexican
Revolution Anniversary
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Shawn Weiler
starts today with
his 1/48 Hasegawa F-18F
which he
finished in Jolly Rogers markings. Shawn tells about building
this kit and what to watch out for.
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Leigh Eaton
is here with his
1/48 Monogram A/T-28G Cazadore.
This isn't the best kit in the world, but that didn't stop Leigh from
turning out a very nice model. His article also includes history
of this "what-if" aircraft
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Saturday,
Nov 19 2005
Oman
National Day
Latvia National Day
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Hal Marshman
is here today with his 1/48 Accurate Miniatures TBF.
Hal finished his Avenger in the markings for George Bush's
aircraft. Hal did some scratchbuilding and includes photos of
the interior before he closed up the cockpit.
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Tamás Skriba joins
us with his 1/72 Dragon Su-24M Fencer’s.
Tamás did extra work on his Su-24's to improve upon the kit detail
and accuracy.
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Friday,
Nov 18 2005
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Stephen
Thrum is
here with a 1/72
Qantas 707-138B.
This is a Travel Agents display Model that
Stephen modified and restored.
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Bob Bartolacci
is here with his 1/48 Italeri Spitfire Mk XVIe.
Bob did an excellent job on his Spitfire and
posed it on a display base.....this is a reboxing of the
Occidental kit.
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Scott
Brown is here
with some "Airbus
A380"....showing off the paint scheme.
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Thursday,
Nov 17 2005
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Wednesday,
Nov 16 2005
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No update
today.....I've been putting in very long days repairing the ARC
Forums.....and they are up and running. Things are slightly
different unfortunately, but you will find new features as
well.
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Tuesday,
Nov 15 2005
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Gabriel Stern begins
today with his 1/72 Execuform N1M.
This is a vacuformed kit and Gabriel tells about
building his flying wing. Definitely a cool looking
aircraft.
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Monday,
Nov 14 2005
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Mirko Meier
begins today with his beautifully done 1/48 Tamiya Me-262A.
Mirko aded seatbelts and some wiring to further detail his 262.
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Pablo Girgulsky
is here with his
1/48 Airfix EE Lightning.
Pablo used alclad 2 to get a fine looking bare
metal finish on his Lightning.
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Saturday,
Nov 12 2005
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No update Saturday and
Sunday.....I'm taking the weekend off to focus on other projects.
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Friday,
Nov 11 2005 Poland
Independence Day |
Remembrance
Day Veteran’s Day
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Today on ARC there is a
huge update devoted to Remembrance day and a huge selection of aircraft
models....all in Polish markings. Well done everyone.
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Grzegorz Strózek
has dropped by with his 1/72 Italeri MiG-29A.
Grzegorz did extra detailing on this one and finished it in Polish
markings with very nice results.
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Sean Brzozowski
has built the
1/48 Trumpeter MiG-19PM
and finished his jet in Polish markings.
Sean includes some insight in building his attractive multi-shgaded
jet.
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Artur Golebiewski
is here with
his 1/48 Sopwith Camel
of the Bolshevik War of 1920. Yet another
beautiful looking model from the period in history.
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Thursday,
Nov 10 2005
USMC
230th Birthday
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I hope you
all enjoy today's USMC Birthday update. Semper Fi!!!
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Creighton
Henthorn begins
this special USMC update with his award winning
1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18A Hornet.
Crieghton has included plenty of photos of his
Hornet.
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John
Bibay, Rich Harvey and
Captain John "Tank" Voss are
here with their Miramar USMC Hornets
photos. Some
in-flight and desert camo planes are included.
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The hacker
Latinpimp returned. I work for 6 hours to restore
the forums on Wednesday night....with no results. I'll be bringing
in tech support over the coming days to sort out the forums.
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ARC Forums were hacked on Monday evening. Through a focused
effort, the ARC team was able to get the forums restored after about
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Wednesday,
Nov 9 2005 Cambodia
Independence Day
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I
am very pleased to welcome a new ARC sponsor. They are
Design
& Marketing Int'l.
and they are the exclusive importer & distributor in North
America for Contact-Résine |
a
French manufacturer of high quality aftermarket resin
accessories for aircraft models in all scale, MONTEX from
Poland which manufacture a very extensive line of painting
masks for aircraft and armor kits. Along with these 2 lines
they also carry decals from Hobbydecal, Korea and UPNORTH,
France as well as a selection of scale models from worldwide
leading manufacturers. |
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MMMike
is here with his 1/48
Hasegawa RF-104G.
Although
Mike is too modest to admit it.....he
won First Place
in Jet Aircraft Division at the Cincinnati
IPMS show with this RF-104G
model. Nicely done with a well done display base.
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Gabriel Stern
is here with
his 1/72 PM Horten 229 A-1.
Gabriel did some extra detailing to his Ho-229 to get the detail level
he wanted. His efforts paid off....this is one of the cooler
looking aircraft designs from WW2.
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Yoav Efrati
is here with some photos from the recent
IPMS/Israel Convention
2005.
There are also photos from the Museum there.....if you've not seen
this museum.....it is well worth a look.
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SHARKIT.COM
has a free card model you can print and build of a 1/32
Lippish Gleiter-Bombenfleugzeuge.
This German WWII glider project was intended for bomb attacks.
The glider was to be carried to the combat zone by a mother
bomber. After uncoupling it was to dive to the target at a 1250
km/h speed. There was a brake parachute, folded in the rear
fuselage. 500 or 1000kg single bomb as payload was plan.
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Monday,
Nov 7 2005 Meteor
World Speed record 1945
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As you know
the ARC Forums were hacked. I'm attempting to get this mess sorted
out. My apologies for the disruption.
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Colin Whitehouse starts
today 1/48 Classic Airframes Gloster Meteor F-4.
Colin has build his Meteor as the World
Speed Record Setter 7 November 1945. Colin includes plenty of
info about this event and what was involved to build his historic
Meteor.
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Michael Stanley
is here with
his 1/48 Monogram SBD-4 Dauntless.
Michael tell a story from when he was 10 and built this one of
these.......but this latest one is beautifully weathered and comes on
a fine looking carrier deck.
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István Hevesi
is here with his 1/48 Monogram F-15C
in Royal Sadi Air Force markings. István
used Verlinden resin detail items to detail the nose equipment
bays. Very nice indeed.
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Mike Pabis
has dropped
by with his 1/72 Italeri MH-6 Conversion From AH-6.
Mike did a fair bit of detailling on this tiny chopper model....he
tells about this in his article. His efforts were well worth it
and he ended up with a well detailed MH-6
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Sunday,
Nov 6 2005
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John
Smalbrugge is
here to begin your Sunday update with his
1/32
Hasegawa Spitfire Mk Vb. John's
Spitfire turned out very well....it's good to see it on ARC.
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Patrick
Vossenberg joins
us with his 1/72
Italeri A-6E Intruder.
Patrick used a variety of very helpful techniques on his Intruder to
gets some outstanding results and he mentions some of them in his
article.
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Saturday,
Nov 5 2005
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PS
starts
today's update with his 1/72 Hasegawa BAC Lightning F Mk 6
in markings for 11 Squadron RAF.
This lightning has quite the history and PS tells about this in
his article. He also explains all he did to his Lightning.
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Friday,
Nov 4 2005
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Laurent Boildieu
starts today
with his 1/48 Hasegawa Hawker Typhoon Mk Ib.
This is the aircraft flown by an ACE and Laurent built it with his
usual high level of quality....in both detailing and
weathering.
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Mirko Meier
is here with
his 1/48 Pro-Modeler Ar-234C.
This kit had a badly distorted tail which Mirko fixed before he added
seatbelts and weathering. Read his article for the full
details.
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Gabriel Stern
has finished his 1/72 Williams Brothers Northrop Gamma.
This interesting aircraft model is not something you'll see everyday
and Gabriel explains what is required to complete this
beauty.
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Thursday,
Nov 3 2005
Fitr feast (Eid al Fitr)
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Fitr
feast (Eid al Fitr) marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting.
This is a time for friends and family to come together to renew
relationships. For more information you can click
here Many ARC members are Muslim and I'd like to wish them
a very happy day as they celebrate with their families and friends.
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Armin Knes begins
today with his 1/48 OZE MiG-21bis.
Armin has built 13 of these Mig's and judging by this one....he has
things figured out.
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Eric
Lowe is here with
Part 1 of his 1/32
Tamiya F-14D Tomcat
article. Eric
is going to finish his Tomcat in the markings for VF-31 Tomcatters
after much detailing and work. Looking good so far Eric.
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Jahja Juwana
is here with his 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk1.
Jahja did a fine job finishing his Spitfire and weathering it.....he
also included a photo of his pre-shading in progress.
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Wednesday,
Nov 2 2005
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Meteor
Productions is offering free shipping to show their support and appreciation for our heroic servicemen,
Meteor delivers via USPS Priority Mail FREE
to military members at APO/FPO and BFPO (British Forces
Post Office) and AFPO (Australian Forces Post Office) addresses.
If any of you others are sending a gift to one of our servicemen at
APO/FPO/BFPO/AFPO
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address,
BE SURE
to note it in the "Comments" section of their order form
(online or paper) so they don't miss it!
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Rian Jones
starts today with
his 1/72 Revell Bf 109G-10.
Rian usually builds in 1/48, but that didn't stop him from trying
something smaller and still adding extra detail. Nice one Rian.
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Kevin Martin
has been busy building his
1/48 Monogram B-26 'Idiot's Delight'.
Kevin built this stunner in 5 days.......and that was even though he
had a nasty little problem with the turret.....read his article for
the full and funny story. Beautiful job on this one
Kevin.
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Jaroslav Hajecek is
here with his 1/48
Revell/Monogram F/A 18A NSAWC.
Jaroslav used the Twobobs decals and rescribed his Hornet and ended up
with a very fine looking award winning model.
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Tuesday,
Nov 1 2005
Algeria - The Revolution
Day
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A slightly
smaller update today....my wife and I were out in a light rain last night
walking the neighbourhood with out daughters doing the "Trick or
Treating routine....fortunately our daughters were sharing a few pieces of
candy to keep their dear ol' Dad content. :-D
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Rafi Ben-Shahar
joins us today with
Two 1/48 Accurate Miniatures Mustang I.
These are both great looking models......but I did find it interesting
to see one of them sporting the early chin machine guns under the
engine.
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Mirko Meier
has dropped
by today with his 1/48 Tamiya Me-262A.
I have a fondness for the 262 and Mirko did this wonderful Tamiya kit
justice.
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