Model Forum / General / Models / August 2005

Well, i don't normally post except to ask a question however, here goes...
Last night I went to a meeting of the St Edmundbury Plastic Model
Society in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk UK. It was my first visit and I had
a great time.

Ive looked high and low for a 76 Ford Torino (for building a old
Winston Cup car)...Ive been unable to find one in plastic or resin.
Would anyone out there know if this car was made or where I could get
one? Thanks in advance, Larry

Well...I got one, and there are positives and negatives as usual.  But I
think the positives take the day on balance...
On the plus side:
1) Nice very fine panel lines - the usual Hasegawa quality.

After sorting through various piles of kit boxes in the hope of finding
something to reignight a burst of modeling, I found My Dragon Me1101
Nichtjager. When I opend the box I realised why I had "paused" duering the
building process.

Are there any standards in use for the design of wheel profiles for
model locomotives in the UK?
Here in France the C.A.V. used to publish recommendations which were
advised if the club's insurance was to be valid.  However they are now

I want to drill a hole in the centre of a workpiece which has been one-stop
machined in a lathe, ie only chucked once so everything is concentric and
nice.
I have centre drills, drills and reamers, but I want it to be dead-centre,

I've been looking at the kind of models/tools I want to build (currentl
the ME beam engine, followed by Rob Roy and some of George Thomas
Myford gizmos) and I need to buy a decent set of reamers. I'm happy t
use D-bits and other, similar techniques for one-off solutions, but s

Vintage MPC 969-200 1969 Pontiac Bonneville model kit. (I love the
canoe on the roof!)
Please visit:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5992618626

As an experiment I want to form some stainless steel flat strip (2.5x0.7mm)
into rings about 80mm diameter. Commercial bending rolls seem like overkill
and I thought about a Hemmingway kit although even that copes with 10" wide
material.

Maybe this has been asked before, but I'm having a hard time coming up
with RLM colors. Especially 65, 72 and 73. I prefer Tamiya acrylics,
but I can get my hands on ModelMaster, Humbrol and Revell as well.
Anyone have any hints?

is it really as good as the website says it is?
Craig
http://www.gorillaglue.com/home.htm

I'm gonna be starting on a Tu-16 Badger soon, and decided I was going
to do the Egyptian version. Probably not the smartest choice. I have
found a grand total of one picture online, and one drawing. What
puzzles me now is the colors.

I seem to remember that, a while ago, I decided to take up model
engineering.  I had dreams of all sorts of working models -steam
engines, model IC engines, maybe even a traction engine.  It is now
nearly 5 years since I bought my lathe -which is what started it all

Has anybody printed decals with the Minolta Magicolor 2430DL color laser
printer?  I'm thinking about getting some laser decal paper from Micromark
and trying it, but I've just recently gotten the printer and am a bit
nervous about tearing up a $500 printer.

I've just run across a (German language) web site with down-loadable
vector graphics (wmf, ai, or Corel Draw formats) of various national, and
squadron insignias, along with a bit of nose art.  The url is
http://www.rc-network.de/magazin/artikel_04/art_04-0040/art_04-0040-01.html