Model Forum / General / Models / January 2008

Having just received the latest missives relating to European directives -
this time relating to power usage reduction - an interesting question came to
mind.
Is M$ Windows compliant :)

#23 will be this one.
that's 16 of the matchbox and 7 smer.
this will be 1/48th.
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.

We'll be heading down to Portland at the end of the month. We've been to
Bridgetown Hobbys, but are there any others worthing visiting???
 Bob in Olympia

I am hearing from one stockist thet the Unimat 4 Milling Attachment post and
head assembly 200 100 will need to have matching holes drilled into its base
to be backwards compatible/fir a unimat 3.
Another stockist Chronos has their website saying  '  This milling

i need an episode title from the second season. it was the abandoned group of
ships inhabited by a hypnotic moster that sucked it's prey in like a vacum
cleaner and exhaled a sucked dry husk.
i kept thinking devil in the dark, but that's the rock muncher in st.

anyone have the cockpit glass from a testor's ju 188 they could trade, sell,
or give me? a loan would also work as i could vac form a set. or more if you
wanted some also.
i had hoped to mod a matchbox one, but that was a no go.

saw a mocel of one in the historicaviation catalog and it reminded me
of a 1970's model review in I think the old Military Modeling mag. It
was of a polka-dot covered
B-24. Did just the B-24 get done this way?  Have not found models, etc

In the past I have made a good number of small taps in sizes around 8-12BA
(although usually with other pitches) using the "watchmaker's" triangular
three sided form, which are then sharpened by rubbing on a fine arkansas
stone after hardening and tempering.  These taps work quite ...

I swore I wouldn't buy another kit until I completed one.  I stopped
in at the local Hobby Lobby this morning to pick up a bottle of CA
"kicker" with my 40% off coupon.   They had just restocked the model
section and there it was .........  Accurate Miniatures 1/48 B-25B

junked out matchbox beaufighters or mossies for cheap?
or landing gear and proprs for the skeeter?
tanks, guys.

Hi, I am new to model engineering, apart from some lathe practice at school
about 30 years ago so please be gentle with your replies.
I have recently bought an X2 mill and an ER32 Collet chuck. These are both
threaded M12 the same as the draw bar. Looking at some more items like a ...

This collector's site? Do his prices look like they're reasonably in the
ballpark for selling kits of this type, scale and vintage? The reason
I'm asking is that I'm trying to sell some of the same ones, and need a
starting point for even figuring out the market values of what I ...

Just received a note from Peter van Lune regarding the warping/
disolving of Frog Penguin kits which we discussed a month or so back.
Peter has seen far more Frog Penguin survivors than I have, about 250,
and he says that most are in good condition with minimal warping, nif

Someone just put this link on the d-i-y forum but it's probably more
interesting to this group:
http://www.cylinderheadshop.co.uk/myslide.html
Very mpressive!

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