Model Forum / General / Models / February 2008

Still trying to refurbish the Boxford AUD.
The Cross slide has several thou of movement, mainly in the middle o
the travel.
The entire slide including the leadscrew can be pulled backwards an

yeah, from guess who....
thier jenny, which is eminently suited to super detail
and the merrimac monitor pair. two different scales but another childhood kit
i want to revisit.

The new release email hit today from Lindberg.  I see they have
reissued the Pogo.  How bad a kit is this?  It's certainly cheap but
there may be a very good reason for that (:>

I think there was a construction article or review in Scale Aviation
Modeller or Model Aircraft not so long ago.. Can anyone help me with
the magazine Volume and number.?
Thanks

I just got an e-mail saying Meteor Productions is ceasing operations as
of 18 Feb.  It outlines ROE for customers to make final purchases though
that date...anybody else see this, or know anything about it?

I'm looking for some guidance with the adjustment of new Gamet bearing
in a Mk1 Colchester Bantam 1600.
The manual states that you should pre-load the bearings to drop th
spindle endfloat to 1/10th of a thou or less "whilst THE SPINDLE REMAIN

anyone got a panzer headlight they could spare or trade?
yea i know about the parts site....i like you guys better.

Has anyone got a wiring diagram for a Colchester Student Lathe (6) the
could e-mail me
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Pete12345

Last week I was chavelling some big lumps out of a steel plate and
using all the travel of the Bridgy even to the extent of swiveling the
head to reach further when disaster struck.
Due to crap, crud old age and the price of fish the X axis reader head

Typical!  You wait for ages and then three of 'em come along at once!
After waiting *years* all of a sudden we are getting some EE Lightning kits.
I'm not talking about the re-released Revell Lightning F6, which is a
repopped FROG kit from about four decades ago.

I'm starting the Hasegawa 1/32 Zero of Saburo Sakai (Yokosuka Naval Wing,
Yokosuka 1945).  The painting instructions have me mixing the following
paints:
Cowling:  blue and black

Here's the link to yesterday's strip of one of my favorite
comics, "Get Fuzzy."
http://comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20080211.html
Today's is more character oriented, but still includes as-

thought about a diorama with a P-47 buzzing a German AA halftrack on a
bridge, etc...  figured I would suspend the plane with wire out of one
wing tip.
Anyone know what an appropriate height to have the P-47 over the

2000 feet above the deck?  Twice?   So who is gonna catch hell for
that?
Craig
Russian bomber buzzes U.S. aircraft carrier

I want to do some round wings aircraft.
So far I have the MAI Avrocar, the Special Hobby Sack and the Mando
Models Discoplane.
Anybody know of others and 1/72 kits of them?