Model Forum / General / Models / October 2006

I've gotten pretty good with spray cans and paint brushes and
would like to take the next step and get an airbrush.
I'd like a good beginners airbrush. I generally make 1/48 scale planes
and would like something that is good for fine details as well as

I've inherited a small shaper, a little 10" Alba 1a. Unfortuneately it
came without any tooling. Can I use the cutting tools from my lathe or
do I need special shaper stylee tools?

My name is Lorenzo Crescini  and I'm Italian. These "Flashes on
Good and evil" reflect the same mood characterizing the Flashes on
the Holy Gospels and Turin's Holy Shroud I wrote in Africa: making
myself useful to our Lord Jesus Christ.

There is a small chance that I may be offered an IT job at one of the major
employers in the Louisville area.
Relocating is a no brainer, less traffic, cheaper homes, less expensive
standard of living. But if course can I feed the monkey? Yahoo Yellow pages

I've just purchased a Hansa compressor and airbrush. On the side of the
compressor there is an open-topped tube sticking upright with the word
'oil' on the label beside it... can anyone please inform me as to what
sort of oil goes in here and why please?

I have a controller that I want to hook up to a 3phase motor which is
currently working without one.  The problem I have is I bought the
controller off of ebay without a manual and I know my motor has one
wire that is 220 and two that are 110 with a ground to the motor.  My

I think that most of you are in war birds or tanks. But does anybody of
you know of a plastic/resin kit for a _big_ scale
internal-combustion-engine?
I know one manufacturer (read: I know that I forgot his name) who made a

Last night I picked up the (relatively) new 1/48 scale Trumpeter Wyvern S.4.
I know almost nothing about the aircraft and bought it on a whim when I was
getting another model that I had actually gone there for (I like the
blk/yellow Suez markings).  The box art shows two of these ...

Where can I buy Drill Stands ?
no not the ones mentioned a few posts further up the list that hold your
black and decker drill to make it into a little pillar drill . no thats
not what I want

Set up a 60mm cube of HE30 aluminium in the four jaw so the a) the hole is
where I want it to be AND square with the front face?
The hole will be 50mm and I can set the face square with the DTI,  but
getting the hole on centre at the same time is driving me nuts!

Did I note at some point that you are also a shooter? Got some questions
about KY law.
email: ftauss at yahoo dot com if you want to take it off group. Making the
appropriate changes of course.