Model Forum / General / Models / July 2004

I have the following kits for sale, all are in mint condition and complete;
Revell/Germany 1/72nd H-21C Shawnee  $16
Airfix 1/48th DeHavilland Mosquito Mk.IV  $10
MPM 1/48th Bell P-63C Kingcobra   $25

I've just taken delivery of a Sturdimill 1250, but it arrived without a few
bits, namely the 39T spur gear to drive the vertical head, the draw bar for
the vertical head (the vertical attachment rather than the vertical head
with a quill), the axis drive handle, the horizontal ...

As I am a qualified engineer and now have my own workshop, I thought that
whilst I am between contracts (I am currently a freelance web developer)
that I could earn something from my own facilities.
I have put an advert in a small circulation club magazine and have already

I remember an very old tv series about group of Corsair pilots on
Pacific during ww2. Does anybody know the title?
Thanks,
Bostjan

There is a survey for Trumpeter grovels on Hyperscale:
http://clubhyper.com/trumpeter_survey_2004.htm
If you have some blank spaces left over in these categories you could
always second my nominations (if you are so inclined):

good kit? flaws, must haves, decals?
love that scale for it.

Greetings Friends,
I am in search of a Monogram 48 scale A-26 Invader, any variant.  My usual
dependable sources have been unable to help.  Many thanks for your time and
assistance.

Well the 21st century has finally in my household, I am attempting to build
my first mixed media kit, the MPM HO3S-1. The kit comes with a clear acitate
(?) nose section and it is these parts which are for me problematic. I have
cut the bits out, al la vac form , from the sheet but ...

I'm building the Tamiya Zero, and am a bit confused on some color callouts.
The destructions say "interior green" for the cockpit, and "metallic blue" for
the wheelwells.  Well.....  Since we, the Brits, and the Ruskies all have
different versions of 'interior green', I'm assuming ...

Just got in one of my over-orders...the new resin 1/32 GBU-12's and
GBU-16's from Black Box are out, and they look great!
Four weapons each per package, with the proper USN thermal coating.  The
parts breakdown is just like the real thing - fin group, bomb body, CCU,

Why do I keep doing this to myself?
I've FINALLY finished my first IMC "Battle Damged" kit.  The RF-4C and
_WHOAH_ does it look nice!  Used the battery Dremel to shave the back
side of the "damaged" fueslage, put in a decent cockpit, a couple of

I'm mostly an armor guy, but I've inhereted a partly built Hasegawa F-15E and a
set of Eagle Strike Kosovo Eagles F-15E markings.
Notably absent is any information about weapons loadouts.
I have access to a decent store of Hasegawa aftermarket weapons, but have no

I'm looking for  a taper turning attachment to suit the Denford Viceroy
lathe.
Anybody got one they don't want? (I suspect I know the answer to that-
there don't seem to be many Viceroys about). I've looked on Chris

Not sure if this is the kind of model-making you folks are into in this NG,
(I've only lurked for a little while) so I hope you'll be gentle with me.
I have a shedload of polystyrene kits of spacecraft models, many quite
rare, in my attic, just waiting to be built "one of these ...

One recurrent theme in this NG and in the mags is how to
identify an old piece of metal from the scrap bin.
ISTR from my school chemistry days that there were certain
flame tests that could be conducted, and also that Tubal Cain's