Model Forum / General / Models / October 2006

I read your recent excellent post on your large flycutter.  One
question - how do you balance the support bar, particularly if you have
it extended beyond it's centre point??
regards

I think so
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220757,00.html
WmB

My fav a/c engines are radials in general. I recently got some
really good books on the P & W R-2800 & R-4360. Short of actual
manuals, I guess they have the most info someone could want, but they
include lots of background info. Biographies, I guess. Anyway, I was

At last night's IPMS meeting, one of the more "connected" members
announced that Revell-Germany was splitting off from Revell-Monogram
and absorbing Airfix.  I haven't found any confirmation and was
wondering if anyone else out there knows anything about all this.

I quite recently bookmarked (thought I bookmarked) a UK source I found on the
web for HE15 which thay had in sizes including 2 1/4".  But now I want to buy
some I can't find the bookmark :-(  Can any perceptive person guess which
supplier it was ?  It was a fairly normal model ...

Tonight, Tuesday now, is the late night  at the Midlands show.
Anybody going?
If so do you want to meet up in the pub at Ufton afterwards ?
I'm going down for the afternoon to demo the X3 mill on the Arc Euro

Anyone ever sliced a steel pub sized CO2 cylinder and can remember the
approx wall thickness? I'm planning to use Johns cunning air over oil
solution for my pneumatic tilting mechanism for the induction furnace
and use a trunkated CO2 cylinder as the oil reservoir. For my volume

i need to find a model of this VW beetle, its for a friend who comes to
visit in a couple of months from Germany
its a 73 VW1200
She will send me lots of foto of the real thing, of the car she owned that i

Has there ever been any 29 Sqn decals for a FGR2 in 1/48th scale? Also, does
anyone make serial number decals suitable for the above?
TIA,
Andy

I have acquired a small (= cheap) boring head which accepts 1/2 inch
dia boring tools. I am thinking of using this as a way of offsetting
the tailstock without affecting the normal tailstock setting in order
to turn tapers on my ML7.

http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=TM32530
anyone know if these are all new figs in 1/48 or just repackaged
figures in a smaller scale?
Almost ordered it by mistake...thought it was 1/35.

Having recently moved shop I now find myself beneath a corrugated
aluminium roof.
First order of business was to seal the various gaps and holes to
prevent the ingress of rainwater - but I also need to tackle the

I'm not really an armor man, but I stumbled across this web site by a
person who likes the M113
http://www.combatreform.com/m113combat.htm

1/32 TRUMPETER MIKOYAN-GUREVICH MIG-3.
What about other update sets for this warbird?
Thanks for your info in advance.

I am building the DML 88mm gun, and though there
are no major worries, there are some interesting
facets about the build.
First off, I built the gun, and then realized that