Model Forum / General / Models / March 2007

    --Hey does anyone know when Myford is going to get around to fixing
their website? Seems to me any decent company would fix the kind of problem
they have inside of a week at the most. Their site's been a lame duck for
over a month now..

I do mostly small-scale work...armor and figures...and like to take
photos of them when done to share with friends on the internet.
One nagging problem has been lighting. I've tried a variety of
improvised light set-ups, and even one of those packaged lightbox

I have the Academy Tiger I with interior details unbuilt (both kits
representing the early and the mid production models).  I recall a
review that the Academy kit contains a number of "errors" not that I
would notice them.  When I come around to building thjem will it be a

I  have been offered a Viceroy TDS5/PL Lathe. 240v.  Can anybody tell me
anything about it? Capabilities / limits etc.
More importantly, what is the best/easiest way to shift it?
..........and,how heavy is it?

(Highly relevant to anti 4x4 lobby !!!)
Interesting documentry on channel 4 tonight about global warming. It
seems that there is very strong evidence that although CO2 levels
historically have been high when the earth warms up, the level of CO2

Kitz in Worcester - stock a reasonable amount, include Hornby, Bachmann,
Airfix, Revell, Trumpeter, PO (I think - East European company who do the
Sea Furies), Peco, Parkside, quite a few odd manufacturers including Heller.
I got a Gannet last week, previous purchase was Evening ...

I have a really off topic question.  I saw a Stutz Bearcat driving
down the street today and remembered a TV show that was on in the late
sixties early seventies about an Indiana Jones type adventurer who
drove a Stutz Bearcat in his adventures.  I don't remember the show's

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=ACE72418
£11.50 for a 1/72 Scimitar CVRT?  I remember buying the Airfix kit for 48p!

At a local swap meet this weekend I picked up an Airfix 1/32 Crusader
III.  While the box looked like it had been used as a ball in a rugby
match, the contents seem fine, the parts still sealed in their plastic
bag.  (The decal sheets look a little dry and cracked though.)

check your email...i'm looking for a catapult and have some
other news....
http://cgi.ebay.
com/1-72-Aichi-E13A1-Type-Zero-Jake-w-Catapult-Model-Kit_W0Q

Finally got the Trumpeter Wyverns yesterday - 1/72 and 1/48, because I'm
basically greedy. The 1/48 kit has a sharkmouth on the decal sheet for 813
NAS, but the kit instructions don't show where it goes. I assume it's for
the torpedo, but I have to admit I can't be sure, and no ...

The inverter on the vertical head on my Elliott mill has just stopped
playing. The display keeps showing '0.0A', which I can't find anywhere
in the manual, or OC1 or OC2 (overcurrent codes) when I try to start
the motor. The motor doesn't even twitch, though it turns freely by

I have googled all over for a source of 6mm cap head bolts, does anyon
know of a UK source for 6mm x 40mm, i need 1/2 doz, many thanks Dav
Geordie lan
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Have posted a half dozen old Airfix kits on eBay.  They are the
Swordfish, Harrier, Starfighter, Blenheim, Skyraider (still sealed)
and SPAD VII in a blister pack (also sealed).  Nothing special, just
trying to generate some interest (and income, of course).  Bidding