Model Forum / General / Models / June 2008

I am looking at a Myford ML7. (Not for me, for a friend of my fathers).
The backgear pair have lost teeth as though someone tried to crash the
gearbox. There are teeth missing on both gears.
How easy is it to replace these gears? Also, where can I get them from? I

are 1/72 figures the same as 28mm figures?
my kids are still asleep so I can't ask them.   they make the old man
look about as smart as dirt these days...
thx all - Craig

Now after recovering from two years of  hand surgery, I am wondering
where and when the meeting times for modeling clubs are in Baltimore
Washington and Northern VA.
I suspect  the severe thunderstorm pouncing on me will keep me from

I'm making shims 1 thou to 5 thou and was wondering what tool would be
best for making the holes which is 1/4". I tried drilling with no
success. I am a beginner in this field.Thankyou for any help given.

After nearly two years hiatus, I have space to build again. Hoorah!!!
I rashly bought a Pegasus 1:72 Arsenal VG33 to build, and while it
looks nice and easy, I find terrific difficulty in locating
paints.

I am planning to make my own furnace for Iron Casting (as well as ali, brass
etc.). I have seen various sites around that suggest I can use Waste Engine
Oil to fire it, so this is what I intend to do (make very cheap
castings...). I have some old machines (a reasonable size ...

Been working on the 1/32 F4-F by Trumpeter. Sure, it's the only kit in this
scale worth talking about, but the fit and detail just don't match up to
Tamiya, nor does the engineering. Those "working" wings are a joke. I
decided to model them extended, and the fit of the joints is ...

....... Or a miracle needed.
Just purchased a small milling machine on Ebay - and I need to shift i
from Croydon (Surrey) to Basildon.
The machine is physically quite small, about 67" tall, 30" or so wid

what type of bomber dropped a 2200 pd bomb?
WWII bomb detonated in London
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
British Army engineers detonate a large World War II bomb in London

Living in a fairly remote area (nearest neighbour 1/2 mile or so) we
have a system of drive alarms to say if someone's on the premises. For
the last couple of weeks it's gone off at about 6 am - no real problem
as I'm usually awake anyway, but having ensured no one was there I was

My Sea Vixens arrived this morning.  Wooohoooooooooooooooo!
I'm pleased.  Can you tell?  This is my pleased face!  :-D
So what is it like?  Well on first impressions, it is a bit like the
curate's egg. Parts of it are excellent. Other parts are not so good.  And

I bought this Rexon  drill press at a reasonable price but it needs
some serious work  - I think it may well be the most abused drill
press in the whole world !! ( but its a stout one so it is worth my
while to rebuild it) Considering the shocking state of the table and

...at the club meeting last night.  I told them not to let me draw
tickets or I'd draw my own name...but they did...and I did...
...and I walked away with a 1/48 Eduard F6F-3 Hellcat.

I have a Mercer .002mm per division Dial Indicator which is sticky. I
want to remove the face so that I can fully clean the mechanism and
then lubricate both ends of all of the pivots. (I have watch oil). I
have made a "Hand Puller" but the hand does not shift. What am I doing

There was I minding my own business when I was buzzed by a Spitfire
!!! Knocking down the shuttering for a concrete slab outside my 'to
be' workshop (sorry barn), and there was this Spitfire, having taken
off from a grass strip just up the road (Spillstead farm) and I was