Model Forum / General / Models / June 2005

Greetings Friends,
I've seen several negative posts on RMS where people are unhappy with
products or service from Ebay.  I'd like to tell you that I recently
purchased a kit from Keith Walker.  Due to inexperience, Keith overcharged

My father, Casey Armstrong, passed away on June 1 2005. I just googled
his name and noticed that he spent quite a bit of time in here.
My father was a good man. He built the best models, period. It was his
passion. He would buy two and three of the same kit just to try

Evening, gents.
Can anyone suggest a supplier for left hand drill bits? I'm drilling
sheared-off bolts out of old motorcycles on a fairly regular basis, and
if I could get some LH bits there's always the chance that the blasted

Can anyone tell me whether Vertex have a website and if so what's the
URL ?  I did try google...
Thanks,

You'd have thought if you buy a lathe advertised as coming with 2 chucks
that both would fit the lathe.  I was surprised enough when I saw they
were both 3-jaw s-c but when I discovered that one of them had the wrong
backplate...

Does anyone make a photo etch or detail set for the 1/48 Dragon
"Mistel" kit?

I have three drawings that detial three components that I would lik
machined. Can anybody advise on a good reliable machinist, who will no
charge the earth? All three drawings are fairly simple, with fairl
generous tolerences (only about two or three specific tolerence

Don't know if there's a more specific group to ask, but I'll start here.
Please direct me elsewhere if it's not.
During the Civil War iron clad ships 'Monitor' & 'Merrimac' battle [which
ended in a draw], did electrical motors [particularly 'heavy duty'

This is in the "I wonder if anybody has done this before" catagory:
As many of you know, for a couple decades DC Comics had an ongoing war comic
book series called "The Haunted Tank", which was about a WW2 tank commander who
happened to be named Jeb Stuart, who had a working ...

Having tracked down a copy of the Supermodel kit I need some info on the
cockpit interior - layout (I know it's a tandem arrangement but does
anyone have pictures or plans?), colour scheme (verde anticorrosione?),
etc.

Expanding the recent comments on the defunct US Navy system of naming things
that fly...
I like to keep things neat and tidy - generally.  So I understand that for
WWII US we have the Army way -> P-51D, P-47M, B-24J, and the Navy way ->

I have just found that I am missing part 67 from the Airfix Vulcan B2 kit.
Does anyone have one of these parts they are not going to be useing and
would be willing to send me ?
Thanks in advance

Hi all. I have acquired the power supply and two control boards for some
powerful stepper motors. The controllers are rated at 120V.12A.!! They
are made by a German firm called Stogra (Who also seem to use the name
Zebotronics).Unfortunately the source of these bits threw the ...

Its been a while since I posted, and have a question or two.
Recently Airfix re-released some sets of figures in 1/32 scale, and just
before this I managed to get my hands on a set of the original British
8th Army.

For a number of years I have been using MESAS 3/8
lathe tools from St Helens (Now shut) & now wear is getting bad
I have been looking for reasonable priced replacements.
Nowhere near Warrington seems to supply these smaller tools.