Model Forum / General / Models / February 2008

I once heard that you can mix baby powder with gloss paint to make it flat.
Is this true? I cannot locate a flat paint in the color that I am using and
it looks horrible glossy on the B-17 I am building.

I've been travelling to the San Francisco Bay Area from the UK for a
number of years now and have always taken a trip to the San Antonio
Hobby Shop down by Mountain view. It always had a superb array of
plastic models but looking at the web, it looks like the shop has

anyone ever order early?  did they accept your order?
got the damn flyer four days early and am beside myself....
Craig

Is the problem with fixing seams with the corrugated metal finish a
problem with all kits or are there just a few lemons out there??
Craig

Stumbled on this:
http://www.philsaeronauticalstuff.com/oldmodels/oldmodels.html
Which has a section devoted to early plastic aircraft models as they
evolved from wooden aircraft models.

Short article, but worth seeing for just how strange a dazzle-painted PT
boat looks.
It's hard to tell it's even a ship, much less a PT boat:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/18/how-navys-new-tricks-concealed-ships/

is $125 good for the dragon wagon?
msrp is quatoed at $345.

Can anyone give me any help in finding large scale (at least 1/16) hot
rod plastic model kits?  I've Googled it numerous times and never seem
to find any hot rods.
Thanks,

Found this on another forum and thought it was amusing, then again it
doesn't take much to amuse me.
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The French Renault formula 1 team can make machines sing too. About 20

The new 1/350 RevellGermany kit does not have the swastika decal.
so, what to do about that?    would be shame, at least for me, to
build a nice kit and have some nasty hand painted swastika, etc on the
deck.

If there is one thing I always screw up on is getting a smooth seam
along the wing root. There is always a ridge and I suck even more at
smoothing it down...
Has anyone tried the idea of gluing the top parts of the wing sections

Has Osprey (or anybody else for that matter) published a book on WWI
Russian vehicles yet?
Tom

I usually use Tamiya acrylics and never get that problem. I needed to
use a certain blue from Polly scale that I couldn't find locally in
the tamiya brand.
It is very thick on the bottom and no matter how much I stir it up , I

Well work has commenced on this,ahem!, Lindberg model of HMS HOOD.
First I have decided that all I want is a reasonably HMS HOOD model to
muck about on the pond with this spring and summer. It would be nice
if the model were atractive to display when out of the water as well.

My airbrushing problems seem to have no end. A little frustrating to
say the least.
I own an Iwata eclipse ECL-4500 gravity feed and have had it for a few
years.