Model Forum / General / Models / June 2005

A Hind review at cybermodeler said the Trumpeter kit rotors have no
droop when built.
How does one make them sag appropriately???
thx - Craig

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Jules,
My ISP must hate Germans - nary a pic to be seen of the lady, not even on
the binaries group... lots of comments and complements, tho....  Post the
pic again, there's a good chap, what.

I was watching "The Last Days of WWII" on THC last night & they talked
about the pending invasion of Japan & how it would be similar to the
amphibious assault on D-Day. This got me wondering if anybody knows of
plans for invasion stripes like used during D-Day. I would think the

Okay, you'll have to go back a LONG way in this web based comic
strip to be able to understand yesterday's episode, but I like the use of
the Arrow in the most recent strip!
http://notweird.com/bugsport/

This time I'm seeking advice for a good clay or equivalent to use for
scenic bases.
It should be self-hardening, little to no shrinkage during drying, and
easily paintable.

I have a question. Ok, questions....lol.
I deal mostly with automotive models. 1/25 being my preferred scale, so to
me 1/8 is huge.
In the realm of aircraft modeling, 1/32 is huge?

I'm a first-time modeller so
A while back I started building a 1970 Datsun 240Z from a Revell kit I
got at my local hobby store.  Things had been going pretty well until I
got to the engine assembly.  Now I've run into some consusion with the

I have turned up some aluminium wheels, 60mm diameter and 20 mm wide,
for a robot platform.
I have some 1mm thick butyl rubber sheet (off-cut from a pond liner).
I would like to cut 20mm wide strips from this, and glue them around

    I'm poking around for a Trumpeter Corsair and I find this:
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2587&item=5981934603&rd=1
    Now, this is the most egregious example I've found but what's with the
shipping price?  From Canada?  Another seller wanted $20USD to ship ...

I'm fitting a DRO to my Centec 2B.
On the RHS of the body there are two unpainted nicely machined raised
rectangular surfaces, each with 4 tapped holes, that were clearly
intended at one time or another, to have something bolted to them.

Are Hannants the top dogs in the UK, like Play are for DVD and CD .. ETC?
Back into the hobby again and looking to expand my collection of 1/48
aircraft kits, but also, maybe, some of the better after market parts and
decals seen on such places as Hyperscale?

My 7 year old son loves the Airfix type of model.  He has asked several
times if I can get him a model motorbike (since he also loves
motorbikes).  Do Airfix - or any similar companies - make model
motorbikes?  If so, where can I buy them?  (I live in the UK)

The chinese scale on my the X scale of my Shumatech DRO has died.
I could easily buy another cheap chinese scale and live with it but
before I do that does anyone have a 7-9 inch linear encoder needing a
home in exchange for silent money?

Gt a couple of spare A-10s lying around & I'm thinking of doing one as
the proposed firebomber & another as a USA one. Way back when the USAF
was talking of retiring them & the Army wanted them, do you think the
Army would've given it an Indian (OK, PC, Native American) name? If so,