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Luke R. Bucci, PhD

Luke built all kinds of models starting in the early '60s, but school, wife Naniece, and work (PhD Clinical Nutritionist) caused the usual absence from building. Picked up modeling to decompress from grad school, joined IPMSUSA in 1994 and focused on solely 1/700 warships (waterline!) and still do. I like to upgrade and kitbash the old kits and semi-accurize them, and even scratchbuild a few. Joined the Reviewer Corps to expand my horizon, especially the books nobody wants to review - have learned a lot that way. Shout out to Salt Lake and Reno IPMSUSA clubs - they're both fine, fun groups and better modelers than I, which is another way to learn. Other hobbies are: yes, dear; playing electric bass and playing with the canine kids.

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33549

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Model Art Modeling Magazine, #750, June 2008

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Company: Model Art

This must be Model Art’s 50th Anniversary – at least, that is how I interpret the little 50th logo on the front cover. As usual, Model Art No. 750 June 2008 is in almost 100% Japanese language. The format is close to 7x10 inches in size, and as usual, the printing and reproduction quality is excellent. Most of the articles and reviews (but not the featurettes or ads) are mostly in color.

The June 2008 issue cover shows the major feature of this month – Questions & Answers for Building Model Aircraft. Pages 7-43 have separate articles detailing different areas of building, detailing, airbrushing and photographing model aircraft, using Hasegawa’s 1/48 Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (Frank), Hasegawa’s 1/72 Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker (also the cover art subject), Tamiya’s 1/48 Me262,… more