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Kit Review: Fruilmodel 1/35 scale Kit No. ATL-97; Track set for PT-76,
GSZP-55, BTR-50, or BTR-50PU; 200 track links in white metal, plus
four sprocket wheels and a loop of brass wire; retail price US$39.00
Advantages: clean, neatly done set of tracks for Trumpter or Eastern

Hiya,
Does anyone have a round number for Model Engineers (with a Railway
bent) in the UK?  I'm doing a Business plan for something for the
fraternity.

anyone seen or heard?

All,
Reqeusting recommendations for how-to create built up mud on armor vehicles - in this
instance a towed, wheeled artillery piece.
Also - what are the preferred methods for binding pigment to the surface for either a

I am not a rivet counter, however I do like to be as accurate as I
can. This being said I am trying to paint a set of Red Top missiles
the correct colour with the correct markings on them for live weapons.
Regards

I find digital calipers to be wonderful tools, but the standard 6" version
is a bit cumbersome for the small work I do on clocks, the parts I am
measuring tending to be less than 5 mm. I have searched, i.e. Googled,
unsuccessfully for smaller tools, for example a 3" version or ...

Basically from what little I have been able to find out these
(F-Lighters)  were Large Self-Propelled seagoing barges that were
designed for the use of transport purposes initially before , and during
the early days of the war.  With the threat from Allied air increasing

I'm confused - but that often happens these days!
CAT40 - ISO40 - INT40 what are the differences? My Beaver Partsmaster
(I think) needs CAT40 - certainly there is no parallel extension above
the taper, and the pull stud threads into a 16mm  2mm pitch hole - the

Hi, what were the official names of the colours used on P47's in RAF service
WW2 ?
Hopefully it will be obvious from the colour names where they were used on
the aircraft.

I have completed the riddler from Revell. I am having problems with
the decals they are not high quality and the body has the question
marks cut into the body.  What the problem is I don't want to spend
alot of time sanding down the cuts, because they are pretty deep. What

Airfix 1/24 planes $10
1/8 Revell Corvette Sting Ray and Jaguar  $20 each
costs that much just to mail them....  guess there are no modelers
where I live.

I am near to atatching a heavily framed vacforme'd canopy to my latest
aircraft model. Can someone sudgest the best way to mask the area's
that I need to keep clear when all there is to define the outline of
the actual glazeing are fine recesses in the thin material?

Am I correct that Aurora never attempted a King Kong kit?
I've watched the 1933 and the 2005 movies in the last two nights.
Seems to me that someone needed to offer a model of the original
Venture.  It would be lot of fun to build, complete with the cage for

working on the 1/72 B-36 - intended to glue just one side of the wing
spar and tape the fuselage together. got distracted and ended up
gluing both sides of the spar to the fuselage with CA applied through
the bomb bay. guess I could not tell what side I was working on.  left

my name is jens kinne from louisiana, i want to show you my website
www.modelleisenbahn-figuren.com
scale figures from 1:220 till 1:22,5
thanks