Model Forum / General / Models / August 2006

Family folklore has it that great grandfather built a working stationary
engine as a display piece for the front room. Great-grandmother was forever
chiding him for it being covered in dust and looking "grubby".   So he
stripped it down with the intention of chrome plating it.   ...

I find myself wanting to cut some profiles out of 40mm aluminium.. I
was wondering if elcheapo bandsaws are upto the job with a decent blade
and a suitable blade speed?

Does anyone here know if they sell bandsaw blades at B&Q?
Thanks
Michael

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement motor to fit a Warco
WMT300/1 Lathe/Mill.
I just bought one of these machines with a known faulty motor. On
dismantling the motor, I found burned-out stator coil windings caused

Just had to share, Ive just cut my first thread. :) :)
I needed to make a 5/16 x 24tpi unf bottoming tap for a blind threaded
bore. it was so simple, even at 500rpm, i think my apprehesion was
needed to make me concentrate fully, but a bit ott.

I was browsing at the local hobby shop today and saw an Italeria 1/12
F-16 Cockpit Kit.  I guess these have been around for a while.  Has
anyone built one of these?  It looked like it might be an interesting
item to build and display along side the aircraft.

a great machine for casting parts
http://cm.ebay.com/cm/ck/1065-29296-2357-0?uid=11777581&site=0&ver=LCA080805&ite
m=140015247728&lk=URL

Hello, I'm looking for a supplier of dry-film photoresist or brass
already laminated with photoresist. I know there is a supplier in
Germany but I would prefer to find one here in the US. I found some
(E.g. Think & Tinker) but they only sell the resist in bulk and that is

I just posted more unbuilt and built 1/72 AC on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=015&item=250014396842&rd=1&sspa
gename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

Do you like special colour schemes?
The Luftwaffe certainly seems to like 'em. All the kits available for German
F-4s seem to have a special anniversary scheme of some description. None of
them have normal line jets.

Hello.  we offer thousands of older, vintage model kits for immediate sale.  all items priced, not an auction.  we have cars, trucks, motorcycles, aviation, airliners, buildings, figures, anime, sci-fi, military AFV, nautical, trains, catalogs, etc.  Plastic, wood, resin, metal.  ...

I am after some micro carbide end mills and bought some at the last ME
exhibition I went to from a company I think was called J&B engineers.
Essentially their stall specialised in carbide tool tips and tooling and
they had a range of micro mills going at a £1 each. Anyone know there

Flight International Magazine has started a project to make some of its
aircraft archive photos available online.  The collection goes back
almost a century.  Most of these photos are very interesting and
include coverage of a number of obscure British aircraft.  They should

Hi Troops:
    I hit my local purveyor of plastic today and got a surprise. The new
1/32 scale Tamiya A6M2 was there, $100. But Boy! What a kit! This
appears to raise the bar on kit design and molding quality. This will be

I've just watched this movie on BBC2.
Flippin' 'eck, those B-47s were nice looking jets, weren't they?