Model Forum / General / Models / April 2008

history channel talking about early americans had a historian
tonight that said the natives built balsa boats out of american bull rushes.
so it must be a descriptive term. not a label
and shouldn' ax men be called american choppers?

world peace harmonious extreme is good!
Entire fidelity 100% Antique (1912-1949) Republic of China porcelain
teapot 588 chinawares 400 please watching!
Website http://www.xjx588.com

this movie has all the makings of a great air battle.
match up a 1/32 Zero and the recent Revell snap together dinosaur..
a must see movie for me and the boy this Saturday night.
Craig

The starting price is out of my league for toys, but someone may be
interested:-
<http://www.goindustry.com/en/auctions/beta-plant-limited/single-cylinder-gas-eng
ine-equipmentdetails-1331301.asp>
Mark Rand

I was just wondering If anybody had seen (or even built) the 1/48th Dodge
WC-54 ambulance from Peolini Design?
Seems to be a nice kit, from what I've read on the net, but rather too
pricy for just buying it to find out.

I have several figures books that mainly discuss painting. Anything
earth shattering with this Squadron book?
thx - Craig
(no pic, just the link to the title)

The database for after-market 1/72 scale decals has passed 3,200 to
date and a big question needs to be answered.
When Super Scale split from Micro Scale they re-popped Micro Scale
products from #1. At some point the two firms diverged and began to

I thought I'd break up the endless on-topic rip-off watch adds,to what
must now be a shoppers newsgroup :)
Nothing great here...what's anyone working on?
I just finished the C A Atkins metal Hurricane prototype. I'm off-

I'm new to airbrushing and I recently bought the Testors Complete
Airbrush System. Figured it would be a good start for a beginner. But
for some reason I just can't get it to spay any paint I'm totally lost
on why.

    Put your hand up the boy who changed my computer clock datestamp
from April 08 to Nov 08........
    Stevenson....do you know anything about this?  What about you,
Neill, Forbes?

Having just acquired a mill (elliot 00) which has been left standing for at
least couple of years all of the grease has dried up and since this had
grease lines from remote grease nipples I am faced with tny pipes  full of
candle wax.- Any hints / techniques on freeing them up e.g. ...

After 10 years online I'm still pretty much an Ebay virgin. I've bought only
three things on it and never tried selling anything. Every purchase has
actually gone perfectly well but you hear horror stories about Ebay frauds
and Paypal cockups which puts me off doing more on it.

My friend has a VDF 21 RO lathe made in 1939. The Norton table is s
worn by now that I am looking for a manual to replace it.
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Does anyone know any source for such manual?

I appear to have acquired one of the above (as subject, it's a
hydraulic copy lathe, 60's CNC innit) and I know Tony G has manuals
etc, but was wondering if anyone here had any other info such as
specs, pictures, or just stories?

This looks like it would be a lot of fun.
This is outstanding. Be sure to watch all of the 'scenes' especially 'Scene
2'.
You have to click on each photo at the left to watch the scene. USE SOUND