| Wednesday,
Nov 30 2011 |
Barbados National Day |
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Scotland - St. Andrew's Day |
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Jason Cooper
gets things start in true style with his
1/35 Tamiya King Tiger. Jason combined two kits to produce
this model, which inspired him to build his King Tiger as a tank at
the factory after having a new turret fitted. The battle
damage and primer on the replacement turret is all very
convincing. Wonderful work Jason....welcome to ARC armor. |
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Lance Braman has
been very busy converting his
1/72 Revell Sd.Kfz. 9 Famo with 8.8cm Flak 36. Lance
started off with a standard Famo and added an Anti-Aircraft gun to
the back deck with gun crew figures to complete the scene.
This is a very fascinating project of a very limited production
version of the Famo. Lance gives more details about this whole
build and the history behind this vehicle in his article.
Brilliant work Lance......this is very cool to see. |
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Serge Dompierre
has done an exceptional job detailing and finishing his
1/35 Tamiya Canadian Centurion MK-5 (early). Serge
improved the finer detials on his Centurion and finished it off in
the colours and markings for a Canadian Centurion during 1058 in
Germany. |
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Here's a product article
for the 1/35 Modern US ARMY Cal .30 M19A1 Ammunition Can from
Voyager
Model.
This detail set
is available directly from Lucky
Model.com
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| Tuesday,
Nov 29 2011 |
Albania Liberation Day |
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| Monday,
Nov 28 2011 |
Mauritania Independence Day |
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Pablo Angel Herrera
joins us from Guatemala with his big and impressive 1/35 Revell MAN 7t 6x6.
Pablo added Eduard PE sets for the interior and exterior and
then opened the left door so show off all that wonderful added
details. Then this Bundeswehr 6x6 workhorse was given a full
weathering job to complete the realism of this amazing model.
Fantastic work Pablo....welcome
to ARC Armor.. |
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Konley Kelley
has been very busy with his latest creation. This is his
"LULUBELLE" in Scale and 3D - Building the classic M3 Lee tank in
1/35 scale and in 3D. His M3 Lee tank is modeled after the
Tank in the movie Sahara starring Humphrey Bogart during WW2. Konley
has captured the scene very will with his models as well as his 3D
artwork. It's always an amazing treat to see Konley 's latest
work.....well done Konley. Welcome to ARC Armor Konley. |
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Graham Symmonds
takes us back to the Great War with his very convincing
diorama of Paaschendaele 1917 – 1/35 EMHAR Mk IV Male.
Graham gave his tank
some battle damage and then opened 2 of the doors to show the crew
had abandoned their tank. If you peek through the open doors
you will see all the additional detail Graham added to his WW1
monster of a tank. The tank is wonderfully weathered and then
set on a very wet and muddy diorama base to replicate very
accurately the conditions during WW1. Truly inspiring work Graham
....welcome to ARC Armor. |
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Here's a product article
for the 1/35
SAS/L.R.D.G Jeep Conversion Set No.1 from
Swash
Design.
This new conversion set from Swash Design is available directly
from Hobby Link Japan.
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| Friday,
Nov 25 2011 |
Suriname Independence Day |
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Michael Johnson
did an exceptional fine job on his 1/72 Trumpeter JS-3M “Pike” Heavy Tank
diorama. I've never heard of this tank, but thankfully Mike
provides some very good background history in his article before he
goes into excellent detail about how he achieved such amazing
results on his model and the groundwork on the diorama.
I loved seeing the photos of Mike's JS-3M “Pike” Heavy Tank
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Koray Bayramoglu
did a beautiful
job building, detailing and finishing his 1/24 Tamiya Schwimmwagen Type 166.
The Schwimmwagen Type 166 is without a doubt one of the coolest
vehicles in history and this big 1/24 version permitted Koray
to really show off all the detail of the Schwimmwagen. I love
the look of the finished model....it's very cool to see it. |
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John Green
has done a gorgeous job building and finishing his 1/72 Revell King Tiger.
John has very high praise for this Revell kit and I must say the
finished model turned out looking great in it's 3 colour camo.
John's careful use of drybrushing and weathering gives his King
Tiger the perfect look of realism. |
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Here is a product article
for the 1/35 Merkava Mk. 4 LIC Conversion Set from Legend
Productions
and available
from
Hobby
Link Japan.
This Merkava
Mk. 4 LIC
conversion set includes resin parts and is designed for Academy's kit.
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| Thursday, Nov
24 2011 |
US Thanksgiving |
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I
hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving with friends and
family.....enjoy the feast.
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| Wednesday,
Nov 23 2011 |
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Rick
Reinbott built his 1/35 Tamiya Tiger 1 back in 1984 and
the quality of his model is first class. Rick did some
additional battle damage to His Tiger ! before giving it a
weathering job for added realism. I particularly liked the way
Rick achieved the rust finish on the exhaust on his model and he
explains this in his article. Nicely done Rick...Welcome to
ARC Armor.. |
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Andreas
'Goggo' Gordes is here with a selection of sharp looking
1/48 Tamiya Luftwaffe vehicles. Andreas has included the
Kettenkrad and the Kübelwagen....both beautifully weathered and
complete with detail rich figures. If you're into building the
occasional 1/48 Luftwaffe aircraft, then these kits are an excellent
addition to any diorama. |
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Dave Flitton
has done a
marvelous job building and finishing his 1/35 Esci T-72.
Dave built his Iraqi T-72 from the Desert storm time period when
he was stationed in Iraq and if you look closely at his photos
you'll see the background is in Iraq. The T-72 is an
impressive looking tank and Dave captured the look of the Iraqi T-72
perfectly. |
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John Smalbrugge
is here with the Armor photos from this year's
IPMS Vancouver Fall Model Show 2011.
You can see the Aircraft and Ship models over on ARC
Air and the Car, Motorbike and Truck models over on
ARC
Auto from this show. |
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Here's a product article
for the 1/35 4x4 MRAP Truck kit
from Legend
Productions and
available from
Lucky
Model.com.
This is a multi-media resin kit that also contains photo etch parts..
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| Tuesday,
Nov 22 2011 |
Lebanon National Day |
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| Monday,
Nov 21 2011 |
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like to welcome you all to the New ARC Armor (Armor Resource Center)
scale modeling website. The goal of this website is
simple.....to provide the Armor modelers with the same sort of
website the Aircraft Modelers have enjoyed for the past 11 years
with ARC Air. Today is also the grand opening of the new ARC
Auto website.
For this first
week, I'll be doing updates on Mon, Wed and Fri and once the gallery
submissions start to come in, I will move to a 5 updates a week
schedule as on the Aircraft site. So
send in gallery articles of your latest model or an older model and
we can begin moving up to 5 updates a week. Join in and send
in a gallery article...don't worry......you will enjoy the
experience.
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Russ
Sharp is a highly respected AFV diorama modeler and today he
begins this first update with his 1/35 Tamiya Jagdpanzer IV.
Russ has given this diorama an amazing level of realism with
equipment and figures and even a Schwimmwagon and dusting of
snow. His article gives some very helpful insight into the
tricks and techniques he used to create this amazing scene from
WW2. Beautiful work Russ. |
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Sunel
Tan has a more modern diorama with this 1/35 Tamiya SAS Land Rover with Dragon British Desert Rats
Figures. There is a large amount of added scratchbuilt
detailing as well as aftermarket detail items on this SAS Land
Rover....all of which does a wonderful job of bringing the scene to
life. The figures also received some special treatment.
Amazing work Sunel....I love it. |
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Maurizio
Bressan finishes up this first update with his 1/35 Dragon M240 MLRS rocket launcher.
This rocket launcher has a variety of aftermarket and
scratchbuilt details to further improve on the kit and the doors are
in the open position to show off all that wonderful interior
detail. This really is fantastic work. |
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Here is a
product article for the 1/35 M1114 Frag5 Conversion Set from
Legend
Productions and available from Hobby
Link Japan.
This M1114 Frag5 conversion set includes resin and PE parts and is
designed for Tamiya's kit.
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