Model Forum / General / Models / March 2005

Maybe this is a tip for some, maybe not.
Don't  get me wrong I'm nobody's Picasso when it comes to painting 1/35-1/48
figures and their faces, but even I figured out some time ago not to bother
with trying to paint on black eyebrows, white eyes, big blue corneas and

Before I start digging around inside it, is there an easy way to tell
if a 3 phase motor is wired star or delta with a meter across the
three wires?
Regards

found this in the hyperscale gallery.   who makes these leaves?
where to buy?
Craig
http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/m18lp_1.htm

I was examining two of my unassembled kits the other day.
One of the kits is an ERTL NASCAR Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Monte Carlo.
While I was taking the parts out of the box the manual & the decal
sheet was at the bottom with the decal inserted in between the folded

Does anyone know if there is a model available to buy of the Discovery
ship from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey? If so, where can it be found?
Thanks.

Hi Troops:
    Can anyone point me to a book or series of books on the Do-17e thru Z
aircraft?  I have seen several excellent series from Kagero and other
Eastern European or Polish sources on the Junkers and Heinkel bombers

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=2&u=/nm/20050302/en_nm/kor
ea_simpsons_dc
Another great American icon gone to cheap Asian labor.

http://www.gulftel.com/wlpowell63/models/tank1.jpg
Check it out....
William

here's the amazon link to the tamiya book referenced in the
1/700 ship post...
Craig
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/4770028512/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-adde
d/102-2047182-8850560?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

ok, i bought the dragon kit. it looks good. now tell me the
shortcomings, errors, must haves and general stuff.
is there a better track set?

any major problems in building these kits?  I'm not a detailer
and am looking for a space saving way to have the kits in my
collection.  Besides old eyes dealing with small parts, anything I
should consider before buying?  Was looking at the Hasegawa line.

Found this the other day which has some tangential relevance to
engineering topics...
http://gophergas.com/funstuff/womenlivelonger2.htm
Regards,

After reading Al's comments on the lack  of correlation between
retirement and spare time, and his comments on the amount of stuff he
has accumulated, I realized that the new commodities we as modelers need
the most and are least able to afford are more time and more space.

Does anyone know of a web site that gives the colour codes for steel
i:e free cutting
Thanks
Dic

633 Squadron or
Mosquito Squadron?
or just get both
Craig