Model Forum / General / Models / June 2004

I've lately gotten a brainworm over the Napoleonic era, and I was thinking
of picking up some of the plastic figure kits from Historex.  Does anyone
have any experience with these?  If so, what are they like (detail,
proportions, molding quality)?  They're fairly expensive for ...

Does a D1-4 camlock always have 3 pins? And should a D1-4 camlock
chuck/faceplate etc fit any D1-4 spindle nose (minor pin adjustments aside)?
Cheers,
-Neil F.

A couple of years ago I bought a few of the Airfix 1/48 E.E. Lightnings, I
still have a few put away , today I bought a couple more of the F2A / F.6
version (I know I should build the others first, but I promise to castigate
myself later), on opening the box of the new arrivals I ...

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I'm looking for a modelling CNC lathe and
mill, and I know of the Sherline make (they look quite good) but want to
know -are there any others out there to be considered?
I want to get into this without spending a fortune, and a little shopping

Borrowed from the woodworking forum...
http://www.2020site.org/modelplane/goodplane.html

Kit Review: DML 1-72 Armor Series Kit No. 7246; Sd. Kfz. 182 King Tiger
(Henschel Turret); 152 parts (144 in grey styrene, 4 etched brass, 2 metal
screws, 2 in black vinyl); price $8.95
Advantages: new kit of a very popular subject; all styrene kit

Smarty Jones is stabled in barn 5, the same one that held Secretariat in
1973.
Smarty "is putting his game face on."
Buckingham Palace reports that if he wins the Triple Crown, Smarty Jones

I posted a picture in ABMS.  It looks like some sort of an assault gun on,
what looks like a KV series chassis.
TIA

Hi,
I have the Revell kit Lockheed Sea Shadow no. 05088 1/144 but
unfortunately I 've lost the instruction.
Could anybody help me and send the scanned instruction via email

Willis Nye did an 8 page set of scale drawing of the Loeing
Amphibians. They probably appeared in the OLD "Model Airplane News"
before I was born. Anyone have a set to trade or copy?
Could use the Esoteric OA-1A vac kit, too!

Kit Review: DML 1-72 Armor Series Kit No. 7229; M3A2 ODS Bradley; 156 parts
(126 in grey styrene, 22 in black vinyl, 7 in grey vinyl, 1 steel screw); price
$8.95
Advantages: new kit of a very popular subject; all styrene kit; first kit in

anybody have the following spare parts / decals ?
All are from 1960s / 1970s kits.
Frog 1/72 Hawker Tempest (cat F189) - decals
Frog 1/72 Westland Wessex chopper (cat 335P) - tail rotor

A question for readers who live in Germany: of the spray paints available in
the various Baumärkte, which, in your experience, is the most suitable for
use on plastic models? I'm thinking particularly of primer for use as an
undercoat with Revell or Humbrol enamels.

Is there a model kit out on the Hotel Class sub?
Let me know....
William

Somehow I lost the left stab to my 1/72 Airfix stuka.  Anyone got that part
kicking around in the 'ole spare parts bin?
TIA,
-Bill