Model Forum / General / Models / October 2005

Which of the F-14s in 1/72 is the best ? Hasegawa ?
Thanks
Jose

He helped design the P-47 Thunderbolt which greatly helped win the war.
Born raised and schooled in Newburgh in the Hudson Valley region of New
York.  He died Friday in his Amagansett Home on Long Island at the age
of 94.  Just after graduating from New York University he became an

Does anyone in the US sell the Heker & Goros metal figures?  I'm interested
in some of the 1/72 scale US Navy PT boat men, and the 1/48 scale WW1
figures look nice.  I found their website, but it is all in German, and I
have no way to order from there.  Is there a US distributor ...

Someone placed a link to the little Japanese guy at http://tinyurl.com/an777 
as anyone got this guy's web site address

Here's a handy little internet forums for doing just that.  They're free,
but you've have to register with the forums, then you can argue politics
there and find others to join in with you.
http://www.netbattletech.com/hpguplink/viewforum ...

Now going to have a go at some jenny callipers got some stainless steel from
a mates scrap bin, Is this medium ok? Is there any specific tequinigues use
for stainless?ie hack saw blade tpi etc.?
Thanks

Now that there's a conversion kit for the Lexington to make a pre-war
model - it seems to me all that's missing is some colorful late 1930's
aircraft to put on the deck. Anyone know of any plans for such
                                                   Val Kraut

I am just reading the book "The Straits of Messina" by Johannes
Steinhoff ("Messerschmitt over Sicily" in the English edition), where
he describes his experience as Kommodore of JG-77 in Sicily during
Operation Husky (june-july 1943).

motor contactor on my lathe has just died (lots of smoke and then ...)
can anybody please help me with selecting of the correct RS
replacement?
old one has following connections:

Well relatively cheap anyway. I just bought a boxed set of 18 ER32
collets, 3mm-20mm, made in Germany, for £70 brand new from WNT in
Sheffield.
They aren't the super precision 6 micron runout collets but the 20

After being in storage for about 10 years I have relocated an old
Herbert 4 Senior Lathe to a new workshop.  It was working previously
via
a 3 phase converter but it did work OK.  It was sprayed with oil prior

This is a new OT thread for those who are interested in the subject and
have had it with the polital crap that hijacked the thread.
Instead of wading through tons of bs it should be easier to find the
subject matter here.

Are there any kits of Saab cars?
I like the old ones, the 900, 99 and previous.
I always loved those cars and would really like to have a model of
one.

All,
I was reading the Academy 1/32 F/A-18D kit review on ipms.org and the
cockpit looked amazing.  I was wondering if there are any internet
resources that will describe how to achieve that sort of quality in

Books, websites - anything. I've turned up precious little on my own.
Looking for pics of both men and equipment from WWII to today.
Models too if anyone has pics or knows of any gallery sites out there.
Quick question - when did the CG adopt the Air Force style uniforms?