Model Forum / General / Models / March 2008

early g model b17 on tonight's show.

Dark Tower Hobbies announces an exciting new name for their online store!
We have changed our name to spectrehobbies.com come check out the new site
and the new products as well as upgraded basing kits.
You have spoken and we have listened!

A day for Canadians to cry in their Tim Horton's coffee and ponder
lost opportunities.
http://www.mississauganews.com/article/12422
Regards,

Good day Gents.
Do any of you know of a source for raising blocks to suit a Myford ML7? RDG
used to have them but are out of stock.
Cliff Coggin.

Is there a US source for the correct "hemp" color used on the RAF Nimrods?
In the same area, were any Nimrods painted overall grey?
Don H.

I'm trying to replicate one of the  first season Lost In Space  laser
guns. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about doing this?
Particularly any ideas about the somewhat corrugated "power chamber"
at the top over the handle:

I've managed,  through nothing but carelessness,  to break a 1.5mm drill bit
in the cylinder head of the little glow motor I'm (still) making.   Only one
hole left to complete and I broke the soddin' bit into the head.   I've been
dripping sulphuric acid into the hole for the ...

No, nothing to do with the date or season.
I need a couple of tension springs, about 35mm long x 8mm diameter
with hooks at both ends. For a throttle return application.
Any suggestions as to where to look online that doesn't make me buy

Instruction section #3 - Just what am I building in this section ??
What's with the orange/yellow interior for certain areas and interior
green for others?   I've never built post war planes  - never heard of
orange/yellow; first called out in #10 of the instructions.

Has anyone received their 2008 Squadron Product Guide?  It looks
impressive.  I like the way it's layed out.  The index in the back
helps considering there is 464 pages.

HI !!
If you have any of those 1/48 (AIRCRAFT/ARMOUR/CAR,SPACE,SHIP
ETC...)below and like to TRADE or SALE , just let me know with your
want or asking price(I also have a hughe trade list divided per

Things have changed since I bought my ML7 in the early 1960's for £120.
There are now enquiries about CNC machines and fancy insert tipped tools.
Maybe I don't know what I am talking about but I thought that CNC machines
were for repetition work and tipped tools were for use in high ...

An exhibit of scale models shows the grandiose plans of Hitler and
Albert Speer for a rebuilt Berlin.  These are not the original models
but ones recreated for the recent movie 'Downfall'.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1725102,00.html

I have a Burgess MkII bandsaw and a Record Bandsaw, both looking very
similar and both behaving very similar in that whenever I try and use
them I spend my life putting the bl@@dy blade back on the pulleys.
The Burgess MkII has a washing machine motor driving it (complete with

I have seen a number of WW2 era engines restored and installed in
various things.  They feature the metal mesh covered lines, and the
brightly colored anodized fittings.  Were these actually in use in
WW2.  Although I was still a school kid at the end of the war, I don't