Model Forum / General / Models / April 2006

Anyone know how I can get advance tickets for the Harrogate show?  The
website is only showing a calendar of events and no contact details
Many thanks
Steve

I'm new to plastic models unless you count a couple of abortive
attempts as a child to put together a couple of presents.
I'd like to know if it's possible to achieve even average results
painting cheap plastic kit aircraft models using general acrylic

Any sources?

I'm making a seat-base for a motorcycle. Got a shaped bit of
fibreglass, but it needs a metal base to stick the foam and cover to,
which gets bolted to the fibreglass.
I seem to have a few spare old 'puters, so one them sacarificed it's

Can anyone tell me or direct to the following information:
On WWI aircraft presumably the rigging/flying wire was different from the
control wires.
The rigging/flying wire was always? sometimes? usually? aerofoil shaped?

Having thought I was succeeding with the pigmented casting I now have a
problem.
The item I am trying to replicate is a toy battery cover. This is quite
thin and black and not only do the casting sometimes seem to be not

Hasagawa's Ki-100 Koh kit # 09144 ( JT44) shows the color H 66 Sandy
Brown used several times including the interior. I know this is a Gunze
Sangyo number but does anyone know of a close substitute in a FS number
paint or does Model Master have this color in their line?

I need to machine a bearing housing so that the bearing is a "push fit"
(it says in the instructions).  The bearing is 2.250 inch diameter.
What would be the best approach?  I don't have an internal micrometer
of suitable size, so I was planning to turn up a gauge, but what size

2 weeks today i fly to Berlin, spending 2 days there and hope to stop here
http://www.generatorhostels.com/berlin/
Can anyone tell me if there are any model shops not too far away..cant walk
or stand for too long

I bet you've never seen one of these before:
http://tinyurl.com/kgfav
A pc parallel port to 67 bit pneumatic interface ! Amazing what you
find in dark corners when clearing out for a move!

Has anyone ever seen a diorama of Dachau or Auschwitz,
maybe the railroads cars at Dachau filled with emaciated corpses,
with US soldiers rescuing the still living from the dead?
Or maybe even the slaughter of the German guards at Dachau?

Tonight I was gluing my windscreens on my current project, and I'm one
of the hold-outs who still uses CA glue for clear parts. I had dipped
the clear parts in Future the day before yesterday, and it was well
cured. No danger of the CA fogging the clear bits as the Future ...

I am working on a column for club newsletter on olden times. In solid
(wood) era, things were all box stock.  First plastics I built were
Hawks (now kitted by Testors), and they were 1:48.  What were the early
Airfix?  How about some of the other early plastics?

After my previous posts regarding the scraping of the shears on m
Super 7 I have another question :rolleyes: .
The bed thickness seems fine but it's just the sides of the shears a
mentioned before that are worn(closer to headstock).

Gentlemen,
I have recently acquired a unfinished chassis for a 0-6-2 loco in Gauge 1
and speaking to a gentleman at the Fosse way Exhibition Hall yesterday about
I managed to glean the following. He thinks that LBSC wrote articles on a 5