Model Forum / General / Models / June 2004

Squadron shows two kits- #5960 with the dennis the menace markings, and #
5844 for Sweet Sue. Am I correct in assuming 5844 is the later version with
the drag chute housing? I think Sweet sue is the one I saw at Wal-mart for
cheap.

Recently I've started taking up more challenging projects and I'm
starting to feel the need of a vacform machine. I've seen several,
stated as 'working', on eBay. Since I live in the Old Continent, the
questions are:

Greetings All,
I'm seeking any informed opinions about the above listed kit. It looks
like a departure from the same ole stuff.
 TIA

I came to the conclusion after an exchange of e-mails that this:
http://www.btinternet.com/~steve.withnell/lathe/DSCN2364.JPG
is a 2 Morse Taper dead centre.
Given that the new one the postman delivered today is much bigger,  can

The starship Voyager, Due out in December! In 1/850th scale. Ohhh boy
can't wait till X-mas!
http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?BANX-15

I was about to start painting the body of the Mazda RX-7 model with an
italian red color. I also have a wallpaper of the real thing on my desktop.
It's color is white. Then I noticed that when the car is sporting a lighter
color (e.g. white, red or yellow) the seams on the doors and ...

I'm restoring an old model that has both metal and wood parts covered with
shellac that has weathered to a yellow color.  I'm unsure what the paint is ...
certailnly not acryllics as it's about 50 yrs old.  Any suggestiond as to how
the shellac can be removed w/o damaging the ...

Thats a puzzler for sure!  The rear end is wrong for the KV series as they
had prominant transmission covers. Also a KVII had vertical turret sides and
the KVI had a pronounced overhang to the turret bustle, although the side
were tapered upwards.

I have a cd-rom disk done on an Apple that indicates it's a CMX File.
Working with our Compaq Presario was useless. Two different places tried to
open it on their Macs without success.
The local Apple store tried without success and said that they had never heard

Have bought a secondhand loco boiler. Have been advised that the
fittings should be bronze or gun metal and not brass.
There are two items that I am unable to verify as to material. How do
you identify when they have been machined?

I'd hazard a guess that the gun was made by Vickers Armstrong Ltd.  This
company was responsible for the majority of artillery produced for the
British army in WWII.  The PS and RS could refer to the "series"  Armaments
were produced in batches referred to as a "series" and these ...

I'm trying to find out what squadrons flew with the nimitz during her 2nd
cruise. What kind of aircraft and how many?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated!

I'm redoing a bunch of Matchbox 1:76 Hanomags I made 25+ years ago and
converting them to the C model.  I have access to loads and loads of
pictures of Hanomags, but one thing none of the photos show is the
interior and I'm wondering if it would have been common practice to have

Does anyone know where to get acrylic (or other clear material) rods?
Looking for round, square, triangle or multi sided. Small diameter, like
Evergreen.
Any thoughts where to look?

Ok, let's try and get a thread going that is on topic.  Just why do we need
a pin vises in our toolboxes for?  I ask
because in one of the info packets/booklets that Testor's has at their web
site they recommend it.  The hardware store