Model Forum / General / Models / May 2006

I am building the Italeri Crusader AA OOTB. Can anyone suggest:
- What are the most obvious problems to be fixed that can be fixed
easily.
- What color do you suggest? I don't really want to mess with my

I am starting a new project and I would like to paint my model car with
the Maryland State Police colors
(http://members.fortunecity.com/coxfan/mdsp165.jpg)
Looking at the website above, what color would you say I should use

I am newbie police car modeler, and I am going to attempt my first
repaint of an entire car. The car is painted all white, and I was
wondering how well the finished product would be if I were to paint
over the current white paint.

that lake b25 c show was really good. didn't repeat sh.t 500
times like those deep sea dorks do.
catch it if you can.

I recently got a long term loan of the above milling machine i
exchange for storage. However I don't know that much about it so wa
hoping someone here might be able to help. It's a vertical miller
with knee type head - the table rises on a dovetail towards the head.

I have just put the finishing touches to my RF-4C model.
I am about to embark on a major F-4 modelling spree in 1/72, using eleven
Hasegawa kits. Before I started, I thought that I would "get my hand in" by
building an old Esci kit that has been sat in my Deep Stash for over twenty

Did anyone build hasegawa's 1/48 F15 A/C "IDF", #09471? Any obvious
flaws I need to keep in mind.
PS: and if you did, were you also a bit baffled at the lack of
ordnance? There's a table with different loads it can carry, but you

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this message, but hope
someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. I am a
fine art grad student at Goldsmiths College in London. My work is quite
varied, and up to now I have been doing all the design-work myself,

I'm confused about the status of Paragon. From some quarters I'm
hearing that they are out of business. Then again, I've seen posts that
they are still in business -- sort of.
Does anyone know the real story? If they did go out of business, did

I plan to do a Poly-Vee belt conversion on my ML7 but don't
particularly want to have to dismantle the headstock every time I want
to measure something while | am making the new pulley. So I am on the
scrounge for an old ML7 pulley in exchange for a suitable number of

I seem to remember recently reading about someone putting thin
ptfe/teflon sheet on their saddle with double-sided tape; I fancied
having a go at this, but despite trying many search combinations of the
relevant words I can't find the blummin' topic thread. I can't believe

I've put a couple of notes up about this recently. The current situation
is that 6 people have registered but they need a total of 10-16 before
the course can run.
I think it's fairly typical for these engineering courses: access to the

I just posted the chart over on abms.  It's kind of faded but I can read
it on my monitor here.
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Peeps
Does anyone know whether there is a web-site or other resource that has
a comprehensive list of which manufacturers have used or bought other
manufacturer's moulds?

I see that Superscale have just released a decal sheet for a California ANG
F-16.  That means I can build the jet that was featured in a recent episode
of Stargate SG-1.
Does anyone produce a 1/72 kit of the F-302? It would look good sat next to