Model Forum / General / Models / June 2005

Rant Mode to the ON position:
L@@K!  (Irritating and overused)
CHEAP!  (How about letting us decide that on our own!)
Great Kit!!!  (I've seen this as descriptors for Starfix kits!!!)

Gentlemen
Doe anyone have any experience of the above conversion and what are your
impressions
http://www.fliegerhorst.com/Flugzeuge_Aircraft/Lockheed_Constellation____1_72/lo
ckheed_constellation____1_72.html

the kit comes with clear plastic cylinders to support the model.
has anyone started it yet to determine if it would be possible to
install a rigid "V" shaped support that could fit in engineering
section and have the vertical parts of the "v" go up the nacelle

Has anyone else noticed the big price increase at Model Expo for  wooden
ship models?  The last model I got there was the "Independance" by
Artesania Latina, that sold for about $75.    Other kits in the same
category are now priced at close to $200  less than a year later.  They

Hello all...we need  to have a  posting site about models  that isnt
interuppted by the nutcase fraternity.........no  religious
ramblings...etc just  a  great  modelling  chat...................so
how  do we go about  that  ??????????????Any  ideas  ???

I have just put a new page up with a bit on the Matchbox SH-2F Seasprite,
enjoy an oldie

The question's as the title - can anyone tell me what the rationale is
behind the ME series of threads when there seems to be more than ample
choice in the various metric sizes and others (like imp*rial) ?
Thanks,

Some decal company recently released a set of decals for the Mig 29.
The subject was for the German Air force in a goodbye tour with that
aircraft. There were stylised markings on both sides one with the
American Flag and the other of the German flag. The question is what

I am in the process of gathering info about the Heller HMS Victory.
The kit I have has only 0.3mm and 0.6mm sizes.
I am interested in what modelers have used or are using for their
rigging thread, ie. size, color, who manufactured the thread. etc....

   With a lot of SH recent releases, I notice many are a/c, or
variations of a/c, that Frog previously released. I haven't compared
any, but is SH actually 'copying' old Frog kits? What's even more
curious to me is, Frog kits of the same a/c that SH has can usually be

I'm building an 1/72nd OOB Academy A-10 Thunderbolt II. I would like to
paint this model in yellow primer just like those seen in one of the first
pictures in the Color & Markings book on the A-10. But what colour
combination would work for the primer paint?

Anyone know a shop in the general Milwaukee / Racine / Kenosha area that
carries Vallejo acrylic paints?  Napoleon's used to, but they closed.
   Dave

Was at the HL checking out the sale today and came across the "current"
Revell Blue Angels F-4J. Is this the old Monogram kit, or a repackaging
of the Hasegawa kit? If it's the latter, may need to pick one up.
Don McIntyre

    50% off on model kits all this week!    :-)

Oddball request here !
Does anyone remember a film called something like 'The Bed' where a
foundry worker was laid off and had a lifetime ambition to make his
own fancy cast iron bed. He built his own cupola in the back area of