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Hello peeps
My new toy arrived in the post today, a 1:72 Dragon P-61A Black Widow from
the Golden Wings series. I've been after a non-Airfix P-61 in this scale for
some time and am looking forard to putting this one together - anyone have

A combination of Tamiya spray and the masks FM provide with their Star
Wars kits have stuffed my Tie Intercepter's front transparency... does
anyone know how to obtain a replacement part from Fine Molds, please?
Cheers,

i know lots of people sneer at the oddball scale 111, but
working on my second, i find it to be a pretty fun build.
it's easy to scratch stuff for the cockpit, i add bulkheads
and better seats and bomb aimer position, better detail

Saturday, April 16th, the 4th Annual Southeastern MIchigan
Modelers'Exposition will be held.  Hosted by IPMS Livonia and IPMS
Warren, the contest will be at the Warren Community Center, 546O Arden,
Warren, MI.  Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.  Adult registration is

A photo about this club appears in issue 4245 of ME.
Did not know there was a club in Stowmarket, provided it's Suffolk and
not in some other county.
Does anyone have an address please?

Check out the news item at Cybermodeler Online (www.cybermodeler.com)!

Anyone notice that Revell-Monogram has the F/A 18E Super Hornet
scheduled for release next month?
Jeff

I am working on a camouflaged Mig-15 from a Russian unit flown in North
Korean markings in 1953, from a Cutting Edge sheet.
The question is, on camouflaged Mig-15s, what color were the wheel
whells/struts and the inside of the speed brakes? The instructions for the

Wanted to Buy:
Aurora 1/19 Fokker D-7 kit.  Please email me directly @
mxytrplxtr@yahoo.com if you have one for sale!  Thanks.
plasticnut

Anyone got any recommendations for alternatives to the Myford 2MT
collets.  I was prompted to check the accuracy of the Myford ones I
have and found TIRs of between one thou and four thou on the ones I
checked.  I also checked the MT socket in the lathe mandrel and it was

This may well be common knowledge to many UK modellers, but I certainly
didn't know about it.
I received a consignment from Ultracast in Canada today. I was concerned to
find that I was required to pay customs duty on the package.  This was news

   Does anyone know if the Daggers had the extra 2 stores points installed
aft on either side of the ventral tank? I've seen pictures of Daggers with
3 - 1,300L tanks, and am wondering how or where they carried bombs.
Regards,

So I got a bunch of antique Air Trails Pictorials today, back from 1949
and 1952. On the cover of the February 1949 issue (Cover story: "The
Reds Aren't Stallin'") is a group of Tu-74 bombers, which was a sort of
2nd generation B-29 and above these os a jet fighter, the likes of

What are the best undercoats to use for the problem coverage colors?
white and silver for red?
white/silver for yellow?
what works for you all?

Just curious, but just how many more versions of these
war machines can be made?? :-)
would rather see some energy put towards  Airacobras, Helldivers.....
Craig