Model Forum / General / Models / January 2006

I just added a 1/72 Matchbox PB4Y-2. Item # 6026573132
Please take a look.
Thanks
Scott

You build a model in a "special" one of paint job for the decals
that came with the kit, your paintwork is beautiful, your glosscoat
is smooth as glass, and when the decals hit the water they shatter
into a million fragments leaving you with a "one of" model that you

I have to decide in what circuit to build in the Emergency Stop button.
There seems to be a choice between two positions:
A) direct in the mains power supply to the CNC control box which kills
everything, or

Hey y'all, just to let you know that I am posting pictures of my latest
model to alt.binaries.models.scale   For those who may be interested it's
the Polar Lights 1/1000 NX-01 Enterprise.
Micah

Amazing how things have changed. A look at the Revell website shows
just a few ships in their inventory, with the newest one around 40
years old. The old guard is fading away.
I can see around $1000 of my salary going to Trumpeter next year......

Blew away my 1970's model collection with one...thought it might be fun
to have one around again for basic target practice and to put down
various hopeless models.
Crosman v. Daisy - comments?

I would like to build a Me109G/12, this is the two seated version in 1/48.
Can any one help.

anyone wanna sell a tamy lanc for less than a testicle?

Does anyone have a workable technique for making white letters on an
inkjet printer? My best guess it to put a very thin line of some other
color around the letter, print it on white decal paper and trim it up.
Is there another workable techinque someone might have come up with?

I occasionally like to build the odd Airfix/revelle aircraft kit. Have
always wondered how to get that authentic used look to the finished
article. I am about to start work on an Airfix 1/24th scale stuka and
would like advice on making it look weathered. Anyone?

Going through some pictures of the Space Shuttle Challenger trying to figure
out where the tile system is applied. Cutting edge decals gives you some
white/light colored decals for tiles up around the nose section. Pictures
seem to show the tile continuing down the side and part ...

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Is this a new creation:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/index.php
It seems it is taking a usegroup feed of this group
(uk.rec.models.engineering), showing posts originating in this group

I just bought a whole bunch of back issues of ME magazine and came
across an article that mentioned polishing cast iron castings as an
alternative to a painted finish.  Advantages quoted were freedom from
the finish chipping off.

I'm in the middle of an Airfix nostalgia attack, building kits that I
haven't made since the 1970's. However, there's one thing that's bugging me
and that the colour of the paint that's suggested for the underside of the
aircraft. Currently, it's beige green. I'm sure that back in ...