2007
marks the 25th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War and to
commemorate this special Group Build on the ARC Forums was held between
1st Sept 2006
and
1st March 2007
. The following
collection of models represent some of the many aircraft involved in the
conflict and were all completed by Group Build participants.
Tom
Rowson
completed this 1/72 Hasegawa Royal Navy Sea Harrier. Tom used
photo-etch, scratch-building and an aftermarket seat in his model,
finishing it off with aftermarket decals from modeldecal.
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Greg
Wise
built this 1/48 Hobbycraft A-4C Skyhawk of the Fuerza Aerea Argentina (Argentine
Air Force).
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Matthew
Johnson
finished this 1/48 Airfix Royal Navy Sea Harrier, improving it by using
photo-etch from Eduard.
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Matthew
Johnson also submitted this
1/48 Hobbycraft A-4B of the Fuerza Aerea Argentina. He
utilised a True Details seat, replacement vac canopy by Falcon and Condor decals.
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John
Morrey built this 1/72 Italeri
Royal Navy Sea Harrier. John spent a lot of time improving this nice
little kit including replacing the pitot tube on the nose with a sewing needle!
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Colin
Whitehouse used
the rarely seen 1/48 Belcher Bits kit to build his Royal Navy Lynx.
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Juanjo
Dominguez completed this 1/72
Hasegawa Royal Air Force Harrier GR.3. Juanjo used his scratch-building
skills to great effect for this model, including rebuilding the cockpit.
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Shamsul
Hilmi submitted this 1/72
Academy Super Etendard of the Comando de Aviacion Naval (Argentine Naval
Aviation). It features an Exocet anti-ship missile on its starboard wing.
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Luis
Cereigido spent
a lot of time and effort improving this old and rare 1/72 Airfix kit to
represent a Canberra B.62 of the Fuerza Aerea Argentina. The aftermarket decals
are from Aerocalcas.
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Luis
Cereigido resurrected another
Airfix classic with this 1/72 Westland Scout helicopter. He modernised the
basic kit to show an operational aircraft as used by the British Army and Royal
Marines during the conflict.
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Adam
Coleman built this 1/72 Super
Models MB-339 of the Comando de Aviacion Naval. Adam improved upon the kit
armament by scratch-building two new rockets pods.
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Bill
Clark completed this 1/72 Royal
Navy Sea Harrier using a mix of parts from the Italeri and Esci boxing. He
has made a number of fine adjustments and additions to make a more accurate
model.
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The
Official Group Build Sponsor was Hi-Decal
Line
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