Model Forum / General / Models / April 2004

Need to buy a Jones & Shipman surface grinder for work this weekend.  There
are some on E-bay, but if anyone knows of anything drop me an e-mail.  Would
prefer powered up/down feed, but not essential.
Regards

Can anyone explain this anomaly to me?
It appears that scale models in my country costs 1/3 cheaper than most of
the stores I've seen in the western hemisphere. :/
I guess I was wrong about our stuff here being more expensive. ;)

does anyone know where to find one? most pics my searches come up with
are too distant to see good details

starting at 8pm
Corsair
B-52
F-18

I'm not familiar with spray painting yet.
This is my concern:
I'm going to use the spraypaint recommended by the instruction manual of my
Tamiya car model.

What are the three colours used for top side camoflage, I have mixes for
paints I can't get but most IJA match available Humbrol colours.
Dark Green
Yellowy Green

Does anyone have any experience/comments on this milling machine and
its suitability for model engineering use?  My main concern is the
rather high bottom speed.  It looks identical to the Chester Champion
but from a supplier with a better reputation for service.

Its been awhile:  what is the addy for the Rec Models Scales Pictures
Newsgroups ??
Denis

We've a got a contest coming up, and were hoping to have a few premier
kits for the tail-end. So far we've lined up a couple of nice aircraft,
and we want the third kit to be armor. Considering our budget, what's
cool and new to the market in the $80-$100 range retail? I think it ...

Has anyone made D bit reamers as explained in this article
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrish/t-drill.htm
and if so how well did they work and to what tolerance?
It might be one solution to my need to ream various sizes of valve guides

Was at my favorite watering hole last night. A old
WW2 Popeye cartoon came on. Popeye beats up
Bluto, sinks the Japanese Navy and then takes Olive
upstairs to a cheap hotel. Well enough, but the

Any ideas guys? I need to get hold of one of the Compact 5 or similar
jobbies or an ex colledge traiuning lathe for some small but intensly
boring batches that don't justify setting the MS SL25 up.
Dam what a day...I need another 12 hours in my days lately..

Just saw on Hannants website that Zvezda finally released the 1/72 MiG
1.44 (aka MFI). Has anyone seen it? Is it good?
Thanks in advance.
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I have been meaning to post this question for awhile. Every club meeting
night we have a raffle and the running gag is the guys who have yet to have
their numbers picked tell the winners, to "Take the Car". This leaves all
the armor and aircraft goodies on the table. I am not so ...

I was reading that the last Spitfire( Mk?) flew
the last operational mission of the long line of
its breed( starting at 1938 at Duxford) in
1952 " some where in the MiddleEast" Any