Model Forum / General / Models / March 2006

Anybody know where I can get a couple of 6" lengths of tool steel (HSS or
cobalt) ground down to 13/64" diameter?

Yes this would be the Manned Nuclear Interplanetary Vehicle. This is for
the old Strombecker Manned Space Kit #-D38.
Was this based on an actual Convair Plan for an actual Space Craft or
just a bunch of concept drawings. I have looked on the web and can't

Kit Review: Dragon Models Limited 1/35 Scale '39-'45 Series Kit No.
6221; Sd.Kfz. 234/4 Panzerspaehwagen; 536 parts (497 in grey styrene,
28 etched brass, 6 in clear styrene, 4 turned brass, 1 turned
aluminum); estimated retail price US $38

I have just bought a load of relays to begin the signalling of the
Lackham Museum and Woodland Railway (see www.lmandwr.co.uk).
They mount on DIN rail.
Any body got half a metre of DIN rail spare?

Do not trust the instructions! At least when it comes to the tracks.
I tried to follow it and the results are not very pretty.
Two issues:
- the mid length pieces (4,5 and 6 link length) are put in wrong places

not my auction.
http://cgi.ebay.
com/B-47-STRATOJET-VHS-VIDEO-HASEGAWA_W0QQitemZ6046156436QQc
ategoryZ1189QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

found out way too late that they are having a march madness sale thru
the end of march, which is
way too soon!
sure wish I knew how they advertise this thing....

I was at the hobby shop today and four kits with the "HAWK Models" logo
caught my eye.  Yes, this is the same HAWK Models from the '60s.  The
four kits were similiar to the "Weird-Ohs" type kits and featured
teenagers from the '60s in humorous settings in some way connected with

    I won a Hobbico 945 dual action airbrush at the local hobby shop. This
is a mixed blessing because it came with an air hose, but no connectors.
Even more mixed is the fact that the air hose suppiled and that fits on
the airbrush ilooks like it came off a bycycle tire pump. This ...

  I've got a stack of YF-12s & SR-71s sitting here. Many, many years
ago I built the Revell SR-71, (the real one, before Monogram merged
with them), the exhausts were HUGE. A few years ago, I built the
Monogram kit, (their regular one with the drone). Those exhausts are

Hi, sounds a dumb question right?
Im looking for some help finding an acrylic colour the same as WW2 German
Red primer.
Im working from an Osprey book that states the colour is RAL 8012 red

Anyone have a set of these instructions they can scan?
Mine disappeared somehow.

I thought I bought some ship model plans from a new site,
bestscalemodels.com.
That was on January 11.  The paypal payment was made on January 13 and has
been confirmed.   No plans.  I did receive a one sheet free plans that was

Any suggestions as to where I can get acme threading inserts? I need
10pti, single lead but J & L don't seem to stock them.
Beyond J&L I'm sticking a virtual pin on map by randomly selecting
from Google.

Boy, this group has sure been shrinking!  Today I only found 21 new
messages. I can remember when the daily message count was 150-200.  It
can't be everyone is out doing summer-like things.