Model Forum / General / Models / January 2008

Who is making a model of this aircraft, or is it even out yet?  I'm a
ship guy, not an airhead but our local newspaper says we're one of the
sites on the finals list that may get some of them.  Kirtland AFB,
Albuquerque NM.  If we do I'd like to model one after what we get

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Currently,it isnt taking any contacts,(emails),I get a prompt saying
my default mail client isnt correct,I've NEVER seen this before,what
gives?,anyone else getting though?.

over the holiday I had cause to make a 1/4" whitworth knob.
1" diameter, 1/4" thick, 1/4 whit hole in the middle.
Simple enough job, but I only had some 1" x 1/4" Alu flatstock
(actually an old shelf bracket!!).

have on preorder a 1/6 Tamiya CB750 Four.  The plastic for the painted
sections is a brown/copper color. For the price and size, I would like
to have the paint make the kit look a little less toy like.
any bike builders here who have figured out what paint best replicates

Is this some ancient Lindberg kit?  Saw this in  the Historic Aviation
catalog...Curious plane that would be a good addition to the Blue
Angels kits I try to find...
Did they use a different color blue back then?  this looks a lot more

Is it safe to buy color contacts online?
If you compare color contact lens prices at the doctor's office and at
online contact lens shops, you will see that online you can get your
lenses 50 to 70 percent cheaper. But you may ask, why such huge

saw a pic of the B-36 in a 1990's Combat Aviation book by Popular
Mechanics. with the outer wings removed and all engine panels up with
mechanics working on it. nice pic.  Looking for more.
Looking for something that has pics and not too deep of text for

Micheal Benolkin at the Cybermodeler Online site is doing a good job
of keeping a regularly-updated 2008 kit list going at:
http://www.cybermodeler.com/special/2008_releases.shtml
It appears that Airfix are, for better or worse, determined to WORK

The instructions are dated 2001, but this thing must be from the early
1970's. I like that old style Tamiya painting box art.  The
instructions still call  for painting the
"Commander Dummy"

Hello. I have a Marlow vertical milling machine that needs assembling
does anyone else have one?,The back gear has been removed and I'd love
picture of the standard set up for reference.The spindle has tape
roller bearings - do these need to have a pre-load as my motorcycl

does anyone know the origin of the kit which Revell is selling under
their #04354? The KP one?
Thanks.
Sincerely,

I'm trying to locate a small supply of the above - say 50-100 off. I've
tried local model shops with no luck. A trawl on the net only found a
supplier that would only deal with a minimum order of 1000 and £50.
Ideally they would be stainless philips head, but slotted steel would ...

I may have mentioned this in a earlier thread, but thought it might be
interesting to repost it as a separate thread for anyone that missed it.
Now, this is one wild project - the German "Ratte" 1,000 tonne supertank
scratch-built in 1/87th scale.