Model Forum / General / Models / July 2004

Looks like a Fruitbat to me.
Blackburn F.7/30 on the July 11th update at:
http://www.largescaleplanes.com/Gallery/gal.html

Does anyone have this kit?
I picked up one today and it was missing instructions.
TIA
Tom

YO,
Can anyone give me a list or a link to a list of scale model brands that
specialize or at least have a line in automobiles / sports cars / bikes?
Thanks in advance!

    For the benefit of those who have a 1/32 scale Hobbycraft or Trumpeter
MIG-15 sitting on their shelf, the latest Squadron flyer lists a
replacement vac-u-formed canopy from Squadron/Falcon. Finally, a correct
canopy for the MIG 15.

Three out of three kits started and finished I am now working on a B 47. Can
anybody tell  me if they were all natural metal finished or painted silver?
Better still anybody know of a camoflaged one?
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Aldi will be selling digital callipers and other tool type stuff for
about a week starting on the 22nd.
Precision digital calliper with LCD display for the professional user
for measurement of internal and external dimensions and depths. •

gonna think about the Dragon Omaha Beach figures.  anyone done any
Normandy dioramas? what stuff did you use for the sand? anything unusual
about that sand, like the rough grey/black stuff on Iwo?  Or will a
small size bag of railroad sand do the trick.

Note all headers have vanished.  TEST, TICKLE,
TESTICLE

I'm trying to finish a diorama and I'm needing some info on what
C-Rations boxes contained. Did they contain cigarettes? How were the
boxes packed? If you have a link to a site wit this info I would
greatly appreciate the help!

Am moving soon and found a way to dispose of models that just did not
make the cut.
Balance them carefully on my kids t-ball stand, get my nice, shiny
aluminum bat, get into a good stance, and send that 1/72 Vulcan a good

What can I use to make Model Master Aluminum Plate Metalizer blue?
So far, I have tested tinted Future over aluminum plate and water based
transparent blue over aluminum plate.  Both were too easy to flake off when
applied over buffed metalizer.  I also tried blue magic marker & ...

I'm having trouble with Polyscale ATSF silver with my Paasche H Airbrush.
Every time I spray it, it clumps up at the tip.  I have to clean it several
times to get a paint job done, for example, the top or bottom half of a 1/48
P-51.  I tried to thin it a little more and then a ...

Anyone out there have any leads on where - other than e-bay- I can find the
1/72 Bandai Cowboy Bebop ships, the Swordfish II and the Red Tail?
I know they are OOP and 'rare' and all that, but I'm not ready to pay what the
guys from Hong Kong are asking on e-bay.

I recently saw a 1/72 German Revell Bf 110 E1 (Stock No. 04341) at a
local store and wondered if this was an original mold or someone
else's?  I thought it could be a rebox of the Matchbox Bf 110 C-3/D-2
or the FROG Bf 110 G-2/G-4.  Anyone got any ideas?