Model Forum / General / Models / February 2005

I am putting together material to build the 1/12th scale River Queen
from Vic Smeed's drawing.
The March issue of Engineering in Miniature, had a pleasant surprise
in the form of an article on just this boat.

    I just received my new Gateway computer (22" CRT monitor - heavy!)
yesterday.  I was able to get my couple-year-old Microsoft joystick to
work with it and opened the new Flight Simulator 3 (the WWII one) as
well as Halo.

For those of you that missed the IPMS/Richmond contest this past
weekend, you missed a great show. I think the model count was about
460+.  There were good Vendors including one guy who was selling Tamiya
kits at 50% off! Things seemed to run very smoothly all day and from

I've noticed that there are a number of Workshop Practice Series Books
for sale on EBay.Some people must have more money than sense!For
example,  Number 7 'The Art of Welding' is currently at 12.46, which is
near to double the price that you can buy it for in a bookshop!

To anyone that may be interested...
last week I was at the Stuttgart (the german one :) airport waiting
for the plane and I found that they have a nice small "museum" with
some engines (piston and jets, even a Tornado RB-199 engine) and other

Can you suggest me of any good & cheap on line store in UK mainland?
Thanx.

I need a small number of imperial woodruff keys - does anyone know of
an online supplier of small quantities?
Thanks
Charles

I see this are being re-released as a pair. Anyone know of any build-up
reviews of either kit? Detail parts that are suitable?

I tried once again to get on the HL weekly coupon list.  So far, so good.
Their internet coupon this week is for 50% off all 'art' brushes.  I'm going
to get some new flat ended brushes for my new projects.  Good brushes are
expensive, and one of the best investments a modeler can ...

I apologize in advance if this is a re-posting. Still figuring out this
new newsgroup reader.
Does anyone know if any kits are made of the folloing craft used by the
US Navy special ops community?

Anyone know of a list of all the aircraft and ships that took part in
the battle and if kits are available of them?
thx - Craig

I've introduced a new portal to escalemodels.com. I feel it makes it a
little easier for people to understand that this is a modeling website.
I hope you enjoy the changes.
Cheers

I dropped a bit of a clanger, offered my old lathe for sale complete
with multi-size collet chuck & collets. Never thought about the
collets for the new lathe, wasn't expecting to find a chuck to suit it
any time soon.

Hi there all fellow modellers!!
I am interested in trying to build a diorama of where our
bomber/fighters flew from but.......... particularly interested in
bombers because there was once a bomber station near where i live. Does

Hi, I'm looking for decals for the Hasegawa 1/72 He-111. Preferably
something other than the standard dark green/black green splinter
pattern. Any suggestion or webstores to point me to?
Lee