Model Forum / General / Models / September 2004

A few years ago I picked up most, if not all, of the little model cars
given away at CITGO stations back in the '60s. Most or all were very
old cars & I guess around 1/65 - 1/43 scale. I remebered them from my
childhood when I was into 'little cars', like HotWheels, Matchbox,

i trade music to a really nice guy i have also bought kits
from and here's the nest stuff i got today.
any comments on the kits appreciated.
box labeled good

The Gloucester branch of the UK IPMS, (the International Plastic Modellers
Society for the uninitiated !) is holding its annual show at the Stratford
Leisure Centre, Stroud (south of Cheltenham) this weekend on September 12th.
Bigger and brighter than ever with a much larger venue ...

Japan's hobby firms have unveiled their new fall hobby show air kits and
there's some pretty exciting stuff coming:
TAMIYA
1/32 F-16CJ Fighting Falcon (Block 50)

Just a Joke. Wanted to see how many fish took the bait ?  I wish one would
be made so I could build it and my Dad and I could put on top of his house
for a wind vane and satellite antenna .Crazy Night.
Mike IPMS

any models? how many limbs to purchase?

It could be worse!
Paolo Pizzi or someone using that screen name has started taking part in the
political bashing over at RAM. If it is the same individual he is still an a.s.
Rick Clark

i have been told that stan bray did a series of engines in mode
engineer that had latin names. can anyone give more info as to nam
size and type?
MANY THANK

I am in the process of moving my Lathe ,a Weiler from the garage to a new
workshop at the bottom of the garden .All the paint that was on the drip
tray is a sticky mess in the bottom of the coolant tank any suggestion as to
a paint I could use to paint it (battleship grey).Also a in ...

Hello Group!!
   I'm in the process of scratchbuilding/kit bashing an upgraded Romulan
Bird of Prey from the Original Star Trek Series.  I'm trying to place the
kit in the same time period as the "refit" Enterprise-1701 and Enterprise

(Posted separately to uk.rec.engines.stationary)
I've got a badly corroded cast iron gearbox casing to repair. It's the
reducing gear from a Lister JP marine. These have a water cooling
jacket, superfluous on a 21hp JP2, but this one has evidently suffered

Well I am not really new to modeling, but I have not built a model in about
15 years, when I was 10 and I really only glued them and slapped some paint
on them, and hung them from my ceiling.
Did that sentence make any sense to anyone other than me?

Never heard of one eh? Well, it was in the hypothetical class at the Nats. I
thought it was slick:
http://members.aol.com/crapologist/rafmistel
Left hand side of the pic. I'm looking for the closeup I thought I took...8^)

Gang,
Subject line says it: I'm looking to buy one of these vac kits from a
few years back for a reasonable price. If you have one to sell, please
contact me offline @ ldorr@capaccess.org

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