Model Forum / General / Models / October 2005

After a 20 yr hiatus due to college, Air Force and family, I am finally
getting back into the hobby I grew up with - modelling.  I kick myself every
time I think of the models (finished and unfinished) I let my folks toss
away because they didn't have storage space.  I can still ...

It is very frustrating not having model kits available in every dept.
store.Target is SUPPOSED to sell polar light models,but ,not around
this area.Cryin' Shame.

Has anyone here built up the castings set for a gear hobber that's
available from College Engineering ?   I heard that it's an improved
version of something called the Jacobs hobber which I've seen described
as "flimsy" and I'm interested to know if the CE version is better in

How the hell did we end up with 1/24 and 1/25 scales?  Was there one
company that decided it wanted to compete against another for all the
marbles and the fallout was 2 scales that are close?  There's got to be
a good story behind this.

What type of glue or adhesive will bond monofilament fishing line?
By bond, I mean form a real chemical bond from one strand of fishing
line to another, and not simply form a hard shell around the strands
where they can still be pulled through after the adhesive cures.

Arc Eurotrade sell some useful looking sets of slitting saws but I
don't really know which is the best for my application.  Can anyone
tell me what the relevant criteria are regarding tooth pitch and
diameters etc ?  I will mainly use them on ms using a Warco VMC so I

up in the picture group. it's based on the fritz putzfrau's
design bureau's turbofan air assault aircraft.
the painting is speculative based on late war luftwaffe
colors.

Really nice tanks, mobile artillery, artillery, trucks, machine guns...I
never realized just how big a solothurn 20MM AT gun was, and also some
nice armor and 1/72d aircraft models at Camp Mabry in Austin Texas.
Some surprizes also, german quad 20mm AA gun, nice Hetzer, Hanomag.

Building a F-14 Hasegawa Tomcats..
Is there an article in FSM or SAM about the F-14 to get ideas from ?
Thanks
Jose

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It would seem from the disappearance of the very short lived accurate
"update" site, that the current holders of the AM company were
truthful, and the former holders were not.
I have a few questions.

Any one know of a good Pitts or Christen Eagle model?  1/48 or larger,
preferably?
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The 1/32 scale Academy F/A-18C leading edge slats can be separated if the
wings are modeled as folded.  Has anyone separated the slats just to get a
better looking gap?  If so, how did it look?  It looks like the gap would be
around 1 scale inch but it may be possible to fudge it ...

Starting a new topic with the question- how has modeling changed over the
years?
My first encounter with plastic scale models came as a teenager when I
acquired a Revell F-94 and Monogram B-24 c.1965. Both of these models were