Model Forum / General / Models / November 2006

I do not remember mention here of another change in ownership
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thanks
ALlen

Probably a dumb question (so I'll apologise at the start) but HTH do I
get the sandvik coronant inserts into the QCut parting-off blade?
Dave

To follow on from my other sharpening thread...
I've got some bits that I was using to drill hard stainless with
(before I knew as little as I do now...!!) and they have overheated and
gone blue at the tips. Is it still possible to sharpen them, by

Speaking to someone yesterday and they mentioned that it might be
possible to use a circular saw blade, like the one below (£7.99 inc
VAT) as a kind of indexable cutting tool
http://www.screwfix.com/sfd/i/cat/28/p4452228_x.jpg

I have just been cursing Microsoft because every time I click on my
link to Woking Precision Models I end up at Hemingway Kits - I assumed
it was a screw up in properties of my shortcuts - but I discover that
it is because Hemingway kits have taken them over.

I'm considering picking up a 1:72 Italeri Chinook but the only one
available in the local shops at the moment is the gunship version,
which is not the variant I want to model.
Can anyone let me know if this kit is the "standard" Chinook with extra

Well...  I said I wasn't going to buy any more kits until my stash got down
to 70.  Apart from the Eduard FW190 of course, but that didn't count, 'cos I
was going to build it straight away...
But looking at the Hannants site, I see that the new Xtrakits Meteor F8 kit

what is the best way to thin MM acrylics. I heard from some guys they had
problem when using alcohol 70%.
I'm using aztec 470 airbrush.
Thanx

Hi I have an early change wheel Super 7, apart from a 127 tooth gear what
else do I need to form 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75 and 2mm pitch thread.
Regards, Pete

               wonder if some of you gents in the know regards US Air
Force squadrons in the 90's could help me identify a print I picked up
at a charity shop today for $5, it is about 20'' x 30'' and is a print
of a very well executed pencil drawing of three Hercules aircraft and

Does anyone know of a source for color information on uniforms of both
Imperial and Red armies from WWI and Revolution era?
I'm doing a stack of figures for a client, all 1/72 scale, and it's an
area that I am not well versed in. I could also use some help on paint

This link has recently been posted on another group, and it's vaguely
model engineering linked.  All seems a bit odd to me.
http://www.geocities.com/lbsctransgender
Personally I don't care what anybody wears, but wouldn't frocks in the

Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was working on the Bridgeport MDI CNC mill, ( Heidenhain 145 control)
trial setting a programme, and forgetting that I hadn't switched on the air
compressor.

Since I last asked the group for advice on this I've borrowed a surface
plate and scraper, scraped my angle plate and cross slide (and got
sidetracked with other projects).
Yesterday was the first test and I was delighted with the results, (my