Model Forum / General / Models / August 2004

What is everyone's preferred(best suggestion) on how to get good clean
yellow stripe(s) around the nose of a scale bomb ? is there a website that
has an article on how to do it neatly ? I have tried various methods and
only when the kit suppies a decal do they come out looking ok.

Quick question for the group:
Which company makes the most accurate Cutty Sark
plastic scale model and how many parts are there to the kit??
Thanks.

I saw a mention of Hobby Lobby half off sales (in reference to the NX-01
Enterprise).  Did they have a half off while I was in Oshkosh and not tell me?!
!$&&%!^&(##!$$!% and double !%$%$@%$!!#@^%
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your

I haven't been able to see more than a sketch of this set. Can anyone tell me
if it might possibly also contain the landing gear? Probably too much to
expect.
Sigh.

Does anyone know where I could obtain some instructions for a 1971
Hemi Cuda. It's  revell-monogram brand. I spilled some paint all over
it and it's ruined. I've looked all over the internet for them but no
luck. I've even tried revell-monogram's missing part claim, but no

Can someone give me some tips on making Academy decals work?  I can't get them
to settle into the engraved panel lines or adhere at all.
Thanks
Ed

I'm trying to get my local electricity supplier to quote me for installing a
3 phase supply (so I can run my mill, drill etc.); I've sent them the forms
along with a sketch of the site showing the required position for the
supply, but they've written back asking for scale drawings ...

I just picked up bottles of the gun metal and the aluminum. Anybody
tried them out? Airbrushable? Traditional brush work? I doubt I'd use it
for NMF schemes, since I like SNJ, but I can see some other
possibilities in terms of mixing in other colors.

I seem to have acquired the habit of cutting off the box tops of all the
kits I've started (I don't seem to ever finish anything)
probably got a few hundred of them along with a few side panels.
good reference for painting, etc but otherwise I have no idea why I save

I had a friend give me a Revell model from 1976 of this Corsair.
Without thinking, I tried to apply the decals. As soon as I wet the
decal they came off in thousands of pieces. Of course if I had known,
I could have clear coated it. Now I would like to het a copy of the

The old Lindberg kit. Paid about 8 bucks for it and had a ball!
Check it out here:
http://www.percongrp.com/pelikan/aircraft/x3_ms.htm

A possibly stupid question
I have an Axminster mill an FB2 copy which is very good but I have started using coolant
and part of the design of the table at each end are rectangular depressions milled into
the table about one inch from each end. I have seen similar things on other ...

Hey Dudes (and any Dudettes that may be lurking...)...
I am searching for some good "model-builder-worthy" online
material on the XB-35/YB-35 Flying Wing.  I have done extensive
"googling", and have run across about 20 very good photos

Wasn't there  kit a few years back, I think of a WWI biplane, in which
all the parts, including structre, ect. were made with photoetch parts.
I recall seeing a build review online, but I can't find it now.  Any
ideas?

what scale is it? it seems quite a bit bigger than the
airfix. i'm talking the kit with the 2 p47's.