Model Forum / General / Models / April 2004

Ok...I'm a 1/72 aircraft guy who is is on the verge of breaking down
and buying that U-boat kit. I think I can sneak it into the stash
without raising any eyebrows (no mean feat, considering the size of
the box).  What's stopping me is trying to figure out where I could

I´m just watching the pics from ISPM Seattle 2004 and found an Avro
Lancaster with dark gray
in its lower surfaces - just as I built mine some 20 years ago ... meanwhile
I have seen a lot of pictures

I'm building a couple of 1/32 scale WWII planes for a photography
project, and am looking for some "well" or decently detailed after
markt seated pilots figures.
I'm taking some photos (some will be fairly close-up, hence the larger

A bit hypothetical but, assuming two identical gears, the driver has
100mm pitch circle and the driven has a 100mm pitch circle, they are
spaced at 100mm centres.  The driven is attached to a rubber wheel.  
Correctly meshed, for one revolution of one gear the other will turn one

I'm trying to find out what scae the old Monogram armour was in. I
know the box say's 1/32, but that isn't the whole picture.
For example, the Airfix Multipose series (a favourite of mine) is
supposedly 1/32 as well, but they are enormously out of scale when

hey People
Can anyody help me locate a company that will paint some of my plastic
for my mtorcycle with that Chrome look?
They paint models with chrome platic so maybe i can get my plastic

Mainly for Tony Jeffree,
Have you killed the Yahoo group. It seems to have disappeared from the Yahoo
server although the pix group is still there.
I would have though that with the amount of Beanery happening here we will

Does anyone remember the Reginald Denny's hobby shop that existed in
the Hollywood area until the late 70s?  I learned from a website
devoted to Reginald Denny that he opened his hobby shop on Hollywood
Boulevard in 1935 and sold it to a Colonel Tom in 1963.  A visitor to

I have seen many over the years, B&W, Colorized, Panaramavision, on the big
screen and on the tube, and there are only three that stand out for me:
Das Boot
Saving Private Ryan

I'm looking for large VW Beetle (the classic one, not the new one)
toys and scale models. I want one bigger than 1/18 scale. Anyone know
what are the biggest ones ever made? Did they ever make a 1/6 one for

I'm going thru my instructions now and am curious as to how many of the
screws needed for construction show up on the exterior and if so what
means you used to hide them.
did you use CA, epoxy, etc. instead?   I'm building a static model so

Well, it hasn't been a good day for Airy.
He has taken a serious pasting in
uk.rec.models.engineering in two threads. One
related to gears- crowned with the technical

The last one, I promise (at least for now).
What color should I paint the underside of overhanging decks? I'm
finishing the ship in the modified Ms. 12 worn at the Naval Battle of
Guadalcanal (Nov. 1942). Would they have been deck blue like the tops of

"Dalton" <dalton.s@virgin.net> wrote in message news:c6dp63$3rb$1@sparta.btinternet.com...

Bean has no skill, at least not anymore. That is probably the root
of his problem.

When I started making models at the age of about 8 or 9 (I'm 38 now) I soon
discovered that Airfix models were poorly moulded (or rather the filling if
the moulds wasn't exactly quality controlled). So, in common with my friends
I stuck to Matchbox. The parts were well defined, the ...