Model Forum / General / Models / April 2009

        As the subject line says, I'm looking for a set of plans for
the Mi-8 as I've just bought the Revell Hip, at the moment I'm
considering either an Afghanistan Hip or one from the GSFG.
Thanks ....Simon

Real basic one is this, but what is the best way to glue two kit halves
together for an aircraft fuselage or wing, considering the size of it e.g. a
1/32 Ju88 and the skill of following the edge involved and time it takes to
get back to where you started ?

I saw this website plugged in our Metro (commuter freebie newspaper)
this week, I think as part of Earth Day etc.  It's a site where you
can get rid of your unwanted books, CDs and DVDs, but instead of
throwing them away you can trade them.  What you do is enter the ISBN

I've been trying a few things before replacing the drivers and/or
stepper motors.  I ran a 2D program, that cut a name plate.  The
program was 5200 lines long, and cut 1mm deep in two pecks.  I'm
looking at the difference in position between the upper and lower

http://allscalemodels.blogspot.com/2009/04/planes-collection.html
Please see!

I am wondering which paint type and perhaps additive to use so as to dry
brush very fine grain aluminium onto cockpit parts worn edges and and a
brighter effect (silver perhaps) onto nut and bolt heads on e.g Vectra super
quality cast resin engines and not find that the effect ...

just saw from my CultTV newsletter that the 1960's Batmobile kit is
gonna be repopped, due in December.  Around $17.
Probably built it 6-7 times during my childhood. Didn't it go for 99
cents?

I think this has come up before but I have  zinc chromate paint in
yellow and green tones.   I've always used the green for just about
everything - is there a time frame where the yellow tone is "correct"
Wassup?

I have acquired a victoria machine company cylindrical grinder which
came with collets tail stock ect
the spindle is also threaded to take a chuck as best as I can work out
its diameter is1.727 inch

Kit Review: LF Models/FORT Limited Kit No. 35007; T-37A Early Version;
294 parts in grey styrene; price and availability vary
Advantages: only kit of this vehicle in this scale; provides options
for either line tank or command tank with rail antenna

It's a variant of the MiG-21; would Fishbed be extended to it?
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

The last two were up at Ft. Indiantown Gap and were officially retired
Tuesday.  Several of the older soldiers got choked up about them leaving.
According to the TV reporter, they were headed south to be passed on to
some foreign owners.

I changed the 1.5KW motor and fitted a Mitsubishi E500 VFD to my lathe.
The actual VFD is an FR-E520S-1.5K-EC.
Everything was fine for a month or so, but, "out-of-the-blue" I started
getting intermittent OV3 errors, with an occasional OV2 thrown in for

First time in about 40 yrs!  I have almost exclusively Luftwaffe until
last year.  Since then, the RAF has gotten my interest.
Check out my website.  http://www.geocities.com/stevescalemodels/RAF.htm
Steve

All,
This isn't about models but newsgroups.  I just bought a new computer with
Windows Mail in place of Outlook.  I want to include the indented '>" when
replying to posts, so I went to Tools, Options, Send, News Sending Format,