Model Forum / General / Models / April 2005

Is there a FAQ for PE newbies?  I bought the Eduard 1/72 Fokker E-V kit
sort of on impulse, and imagine my shock when I got it home and saw a sheet
of etched brass!  Anyhow, some questions:
1.  How does one form curves?  I bollixed the pilot's seat back and don't

I have a Panzer IV which has individual track links.  The instructions are
almost entirely in a chinese-style language with the old english word here
and there to describe key parts or paint colours.
This is the first time I have encountered individual track links and I had

I bought what I thought were taper and bottom 3/16 ME taps and die
recently.  Got them out today and the die has BSW 3/16x40 on it. Is there
such a thing as 40tpi BSW?  The  pitch looks coarse and a piece of brass
threaded with the die wont enter a hole cut with the taper.  First

Is it possible to hand paint a small scale model and not have  visible brush
strokes?
Any techniques help to achieve this?
Cheers, Reddog

On Mar 18, I asked: "Just a simple question for anyone that might have
the answer. I know that v.1/n.1 came out in June 1971. My questions are
these; Is the magazine still in publication? and When did the name
change occur?"

After a thread recently in this group about falloff in traffic for the
group this year, I posted a survey to three modeling-related web or
email discussion groups I frequent.
By far the biggest situation among those who responded was- they were

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I had a problem today which made me think that I needed to replace the
motor on my ML7.
While screwcutting - and therefore switching from forward to reverse
every minute or so - turning on caused the main RCD to trip and