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Here's a product article
for the 1/32
F-16C Blue Fox Bandits decal sheet from
Twobobs
Aviation Graphics.
This sheet
features three Lizard and Flanker scheme jets from the 18th AGRS
at Eielson AFB. These markings represent the final configuration
schemes of these jets.
11th AF
Lizard scheme along with the 354th OG Flanker scheme are part of this
sheet. A "line" lizard jet is also represented on this
decal sheet.
The 1/32
&1/72 Braille Scale Sale!
is still on but items are selling out so get 'em while they are only
$5. Includes
most 1/72
and 1/32 sheets...only $5. Supplies are going fast.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/32
Israel AF F-16C Block 40 Conversion Set from IsraCast.
This
resin conversion set is available directly from
Sprue
Brothers Models
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Here's a product article
for the 1/18
VF-84 F-14A "Jolly Rogers" Desert storm Nose Art decal
sheet from Fightertown
Decals.
This new decal sheet is for guys that believe in "Go big or go
home". This sheet is for 1 Tomcat with VF-84 F-14A
"Jolly Rogers" during Desert Storm, but the best part of
this decal sheet is the sexy noseart which you can see in all its
glory.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/32
EF 2000A Typhoon wheel bay set from
Aires.
This highly detailed wheel bays are designed for the Revell kit.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/72
Hal Ajet T.2 resin model kit from
Pro
Resin. This
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the Test Post Clubhouse there is a new
daily photo and a daily joke.
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ARC
Armor
was updated today - for
the Australian and Indian National Days......plenty of great models to see.
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Hiroyuki
is here to honour the Indian Republic Day with a beautiful looking 1/72 Zvezda Su-30
MKI.
Hiroyuki added parts from the Tamiya Su-27 kit as well as
Eduard photo etch and finished it all off with decals from
Begemotdecals. Very nicely done Hiroyuki.
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Aaron
has done a gorgeous job building and finishing his 1/48 Highplanes CAC CA-27 Avon
Sabre.
This is a 76Sqn Sabre wearing a great looking Panther scheme and the a
couple of
air-to-air missiles. The finish and the markings all come
together to make this a great looking Aussie Sabre....the perfect
jet for the Australia Day update here on ARC..
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Aaron
joins us from Australia on this special day with his sharp looking
1/48 Hobbyboss F-111C Pig RAAF. Aaron went with
markings for a 6 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force F-111 in one
of the better paint schemes worn by this jet. I love the
in-flight pose...well done Aaron.
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Aaron is
here with his attractive looking 1/48 Hobbycraft Canada Hawker
Sea Fury FB.11 RAN.
Aaron gave it a full weapons load and posed it as an in-flight bird
from the Royal Australian Navy on the HMAS Sydney.
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Aaron
joins us with his fully loaded and perfect looking 1/48 Douglas
A-4G Skyhawk RAN.
Aaron went with a camo scheme that is a treat to the eyes and then
posed it as an in-flight Skyhawk.......can't beat that. I love
the way it looks.
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Aaron
has done a stellar job on his 1/48 Hobbyboss F/A-18A Hornet RAAF.
His Hornet has drop tanks and a weapons load along with full
weathering and some great looking Aussie markings...check out the
tail art. This is an attractive looking model.
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Aaron
is here with a very special Australian Canberras from the Vietnam
War. This is his 1/48 Airfix GAF Canberra Mk.20
with pre and post-shading to get the perfect SEA weathered
look. Aaron tells this history of this bird and what
eventually became of her. Very nicely done Aaron.
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Here's a product
article for the 1/32
EF-2000 Perfect Storm Tiffies decal sheet from Twobobs
Aviation Graphics.
This sheet features markings
for the Trumpeter and Revell Germany kit of this very important RAF
fighter. One complete set of correct stencils and
enough options for three different aircraft.
The 1/32 &1/72
Braille Scale Sale! is still on but items are selling out so get 'em
while they are only $5. Includes most 1/72 and 1/32
sheets...only $5. Supplies are going fast.
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Zoltan
Pocza Embraer is here
with a product article for the ERJ-190-100IGW 190AR (C-FHNV) - Air
Canada (ACA) / Canada print from Deployment
Productions. 20%
off of any products for every ACTIVE, registered ARC community
members!
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Here's a product article
for the 1/48 Yak-38 Forger A Air Intake Covers from QuickBoost.
These are designed to fit the Hobby Boss kit.
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Here's
a product article for the 1/72 Pratt-Read LNE-1 glider model
kit from Czech
Master Resin - CMR Models.
This model kit includes markings for 4 different aircraft.
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In
the Test Post Clubhouse there is a new
daily photo and a daily joke.
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Auto
was updated today - - - - - -
ARC
Armor
was updated today - drop by and check them
out.....plenty of great models to see.
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John Doerr
is here with a trio of MiG-17's. These are his 1/48 Hobbycraft and Smer Egyptian MiG
17s
with resin cockpits and aftermarket decals. I love the job
John did on the camo schemes and if you read his article you will
learn which kit is the better of the two....Hobbycraft or Smer.
Excellent work John....all 3 MiG's look fantastic.
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Carmel J Attard
is with a truly exceptional model of the 1/72 Execuform T-29A/B Convair 240, C131A &600.
This was quite the involved project, but in the skilled hands of
Carmel it goes along smoothly. I enjoy the look of the
finished model very much.....it is simply beautiful from every
angle.
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Robert Martino
reworked the 1/48 Monogram F-86 Sabre Jet
to created his model of a Sabre with the RCAF 1959 Golden Hawks
Aerobatic Team. Robert did some excellent work and shows just
how nice these Monogram kits are. I love the look of Robert's
Sabre.
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Just
released!!!
Here's a product article
for the 1/32
F-15C Eifel Eagles decal sheet from Twobobs
Aviation Graphics.
This sheet features F-15C Eagles from the 36th TWF of historic
Bitburg AB in Germany. Multiple time frames are captured on this sheet
with a great selection of squadron and wing commanders aircraft as
well as MiG killer and special scheme aircraft. Three different
stencil styles are included.
Only
250 sheets were be printed.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/48
Bf 110 C/ D main undercarriage wheels from Eduard.
These resin
wheels are available directly from Sprue
Bros.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/32
AIM-9DGH Sidewinder Missiles from Zactomodels.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/72
F6F Hellcat Cooling Gills from QuickBoost.
These are designed for the Dragon kit.
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In
the Test Post Clubhouse there is a new
daily photo and a daily joke.
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Hot
Babe of the Week!
this week from Twobobs
is courtesy of Keith Svendsen. Keith was a Flight Test Engineer out
at Edwards AFB back in the day and this is but a small snipet of the
mountain of F-5 pics that he has shared with us over here at Twobobs.
So many schemes out there from Luke, Edwards and Nellis that have
never been done. Thanks Keith! Enjoy! Bob
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Yoav Efrati
joins us with a very rare and interesting aircraft today. This
is his 1/48 Eduard MiG-21MF
and what makes this interesting is it is a Egyptian MiG-21 flown by
a Russian pilot against Israel. Yoav tells this fascinating
story from 1970 and then you get to enjoy the wonderful photos of
his MiG-21.....that's a pretty sweet deal.
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Fabrice Godart
joins us from friendly Belgium with not one but 2 models.
These are his 1/72 Academy SB2C-4 Helldiver and F4U-1 Corsair
in the colours and markings from 1945. It's great to see them Fabrice,
they both look excellent.
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Gavin Parnaby
has extensively reworked and heavily detailed his 1/72
Italeri B-57G.
Gavin did all this with a combination of aftermarket parts and
scratchbuilding. He details all the modifications with
pictures and detailed text. Wow this is an amazing project
Gavin....well done!!!
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Here's a product article
for the 1/32
F-4 Long nose Pitot tube set from Hobby
Decal.
These are
finely crafted metal parts.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/72 Modern Soviet Russian pilot figure (standing
pose) from Fairy Hobby.
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Here's a product article
for the Phamtom
Poster from Reid
Air Publications.
This poster is available in 2 different sizes.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/48
Yak-38 Forger A Air Scoops from QuickBoost.
These are designed for the Hobby Boss kit.
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In
the Test Post Clubhouse there is a new
daily photo and a daily joke.
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Happy
Chinese New
Year!!! Happy
Lunar New Year!!! |
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of the Lunar New Year. In China, this is the year of the Dragon.
I want to wish everyone a happy New Year and I hope you all have
good health and much wealth during this New Year. For a dragon
image, I picked one with 5 claws.....that
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This
weeks Twobobs
Newsletter is up. Bob has some big beautiful
images of the F-15C Digital Flanker instruction sheets.....oh
man these look good!!! Bobs also has the latest news on
the much anticipated T-6 Texan II and F-5F decal sheets and F-4
Phantom Stencils
is up. Bob has some big beautiful
images of the F-15C Digital Flanker instruction sheets.....oh
man these look good!!! Bobs also has the latest news on
the much anticipated T-6 Texan II and F-5F decal sheets and F-4
Phantom Stencils
is up. Bob has some big beautiful
images of the F-15C Digital Flanker instruction sheets.....oh
man these look good!!! Bobs also has the latest news on
the much anticipated T-6 Texan II and F-5F decal sheets and F-4
Phantom Stencils sheet. |
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Serge Dompierre
has done a flawless job on his 1/48
Hasegawa CF-18A.
Serge got all the details correct such as the spotlight and then
finished it in the markings for Alouette 425 Squadron based at CFB
Bagotville PQ (Quebec). Serge gave it a couple of drop
tanks which is fairly standard for the CF-18A. Great photos
Serge....they look very realistic.
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Suat ÖZKUL
has done an exceptional job on the 1/48 Eduard BF-108 B
Taifun.
Suat gave it photo etch seatbelts and other detailing and a
beautifully done weathering job and then finished it off with an
early war camo scheme.
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Denis COUDERT
joins us from Dijon, France with his eye catching 1/48 Revell F104G Strafighter "Tiger Meet 1978".
This is an older kit and it's got opened panels and airbrakes
and then give it an excellent looking paint job with a brush and the
good looking Tiger stripe scheme. Wow I can't believe this
model is brush painted.....that is amazing.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/35
Israeli Air Force H-60 Blackhawk decal sheet from IsraDecal.
This decal sheet from
Isracast is available directly from
Sprue
Brothers Models.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/72
F9F-2 Panther Undercarriage Covers from QuickBoost.
These are designed for the for Hobby Boss kit.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/48
J29 Tunnan photo etch detail set from Maestro
Models.
These include pre-painted parts and is designed for the cockpit and
exterior of the J29 Tunnan.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/48
Ar 234C Landing Gear from Scale
Aircraft Conversions. These are designed for the
Hasegawa/Revell kit.
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In
the Test Post Clubhouse there is a new
daily photo and a daily joke.
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Jan 20 2012 |
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Jean-Charles GODDET
has
done an astounding job on his 1/72 Revell Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor.
Jean-Charles used a large variety of aftermarket items from Aires
and Eduard and this finished off this magnificent Raptor with
a perfect paint job with a slight metallic sheen and decals from
Twobobs.
Wow this is an impressive model.
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Kenan TURHAN
joins us today with a vewry rare plane. This is the triple
engined 1/72 Revell Blohm & Voss BV 138. Kenan
added scratchbuilt details to the interior and then dressed up the
exterior with moveable flight controls and finally pre-shaded the
panel lines to get that perfect weathered look. This is one
very cool looking sea plane.
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Iván Aceituno C.
has been very busy making the perfect 1/48 Hobbyboss Republic F-105G THUD.
Iván added many aftermarket detail items as well as plenty of
scratchbuilt details including a photo etch boarding ladder.
His finished model was then given a beautifully weathered SEA camo
scheme and display on a tarmac diorama base.
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Just
released!!!
Here's a product article
for the 1/48
F-15C Eifel Eagles decal sheet from Twobobs
Aviation Graphics.
This sheet features F-15C Eagles from the 36th TWF of historic
Bitburg AB in Germany. Multiple time frames are captured on this sheet
with a great selection of squadron and wing commanders aircraft as
well as MiG killer and special scheme aircraft. Three different
stencil styles are included.
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Here's a product article
for the A-10A
Thunderbolt II print 103rd FW, 118th FS Flying Yankees CT 78-621 &
CT 78-613 - 2007 from Deployment
Productions.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/48 F-5E Tiger
II Control Levers from QuickBoost.
These are designed for the AFV Club kit.
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Here's a product article
for the 1/48
Ar 234B Landing Gear from Scale
Aircraft Conversions. These landing gear are designed
to fit the Hasegawa/Revell kit.
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In
the Test Post Clubhouse there is a new
daily photo and a daily joke.
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