Model Forum / General / Models / January 2007

I walked into a new DollarRama store yesterday and unexpectedly came
out with a bagful of parts useful for making dioramas.  
1.  A 9" x 6" x 2 1/4" wooden box that I intend to set aside for the
front facade of a 1/35 scale business building.  The dimensions are

  I am trying to decide on what new lathe to buy in the 250-350 between
centres range. I will use it mainly for odd bits for model cars, boats and
planes
I am looking at Axminster, Warco and Chester and there seems to be a certain

I am currently working on a Hasegawa 1/48 F-4B/N.  I thought I would try
some of the Aires burner cans because they look much better than the
Hasegawa items.  Well I dry fit them to the hole and they seem to fall rght
inside the model.  They seem to be too small in diameter to ...

Hope this is not out of line. I have several books just listed on ebay
which may be of interest to some here.
Among them are a few of Model Engineer Handbook series, and some of the
American version, the Model Library, a 1930 Starrett No. 35 catalogue,

How do I fix a broken wooden mast?

I got a request from a possible bidder in Bolivia for permission to bid
on some of my latest auctions.  Does anyone have experience buying or
selling to Bolivia?
Shameless plug for this week's sale:

you know your train sh.t. those walther's have only been on
ebay a few hours and there's watchers and bids. glad i
didn't sell them here.
next time, i'll ask the expert first.

I am working on a 1/48 POMK Bloch 174. I need to know what the interior
color was.m The instructions are great for the exterior but offer no help
with the interior colors and my own research has not been very fruitful. Is
it the light grey interior color or the dark "midnight" ...

wjay kind of strters did p51's use? they sound like shothun
shells when first moving. did they use explosive cartrifges?
what cause the bang?

I've got some collets lying around that are similar to 5C in
conception but different dimensions.
The main shank is 27mm diameter (it could be a bizzare imperial
dimension but I suspect it's metric because the external closing

Any suggestions for a book or books that will equip me to design the boiler
and cylinders for my next project, a 3 1/2" but it might end up 5" yet
De-Winton. I have Tubal Cains ME Handbook which gets me part of the way and
lots of other source material but I need calcs for the ...

...offer payment via Paypal or a merchant credit card service.
Read it here, but I'm sure eBay has a message in the pipeline too:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/monster-options-probe-ebay-fraud/story.asp
x?guid=%7B89FBB7FD-DB45-4C2F-86FA-E1DC282332C0%7DWmB

Found this on eBay.co.uk - I have extracted the funny part:
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A Quick Note about Packaging
I am a kit builder and frequent eBay user myself and am sometimes left

who makes the best !/35? both turrets and king?

I remember seeing somewhere a scheme of all-yellow FW-190A of German ace
Hermann Graff.. can someone enlighten me..?