Model Forum / General / Models / September 2005

Building one - a funny looking aircraft!
Goes together ok - similar quality to new generation Revell

Good Morning Folks,
I'm trying to find some 'spacer thingies' but I don't know what they
are called..
Its a circular spacer, about 5mm high and 4mm diameter, with a

I want to refurbish the worn hinges on a fibreglass bodied car. The doors
pivot on a pair of nylon screwed adjusters the ends of which are formed into
a hemisphere. There has a corresponding hemispherical recess in a Mazak
die-casting which is bonded into the car bodyshell. Over ...

A month or so ago, I posted asking about Gunze paints.  I still haven't shot
any color yet, as I have 2 kits left to finish off.
Anyway, my question is this:
Will Mr. Color Thinner work for thinning Mr. Surfacer 1200?

A friend of mine collects mini chairs and I've been thinking of
branching out from regular kit models and trying my hand at a scale
model of a chair.
Anyone out there make chair models? Are there particular pitfalls I

Hy,
Does anyone know how to removed Alcade old paint  ?
Thanks at all

Ok i put the rotary table on the milling machine
ready to drill a series of holes on 5\8 PCD
how do i proceed
please

Does anyone know where to get hold of Air Publications (A.P.'s) as I wish to
look at several for referecnes for My WWII aircraft building.
Thanks in advance
Alastair

Just obtained the Trumpeter 1/500 Nimitz -
here is what they wrote about the kit on the side panel:
"Model Brief" This is the largest electrical warship model in the world
at present. Scale in 1/500,.....it is an excellent produce for sight

I'm awaiting delivery of a Warco VMC and have a problem in that the
floor where it's going to go is on a slight slope.  The floor is
concrete and slopes from back to front a bit less than an inch in 24
inches.  My first thoughts regarding this were to shim under the mill

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have bought a Boxford stand on
which to mount my Myford (as I think they are better made and it was a
steal at £37). However, the holes on the stand do not match up with
those on the Myford.

Pizzi, Paolo
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Cypress, CA 90630
(714) 821-7944

Has anyone had much success printing waterslide decals on a standard
ink jet printer(not an Alps)? I have an HP OfficeJet K60 and some fresh
Experts-Choice clear decal film and every time I coat the decal with
their decal spray, future , flat or even water, the ink runs and blurs

I'm looking for the parts associated with the nose landing gear from the
Revell F-111.  Part numbers needed are 23, 24, 25 and probably 26, 27
and 28.
I sold an EF-111A conversion to a fellow and he says he can't find the

I'm looking for someone that sells these.
http://www.terralec.co.uk/__12_product_info3_asp3_1_n11_SMALL+CATCH5_prdID5_1635
25_usrID36_39145AEE-690E-4284-8ED3-B6FDFE9E1D351.html
Anyone know of another company?
Thanks