Model Forum / General / Models / November 2009

I'm thinking about purchasing one of these and in the advert it refers
to David White's review of it in Model Engineers Workshop, Dec 2008.
Unfortunately as I have only returned to machining in this last year, I
do not have that particular journal.

Where can I find alt.binaries free new server?

Hi Gang,
Santa is looking for the 1/32 JU-88A kit. Whom has the best value for
this kit???
Santa lives in the U.S.A.

Since I seem to have developed a habit of starting a kit and never
finishing it, I thought I might as well start this habit on my
collection of WWI aircraft. If I have to have bits of thread all over
the place, it just is not gonna happen.  If I can build and paint

Micro-Mark is selling a cutter they call Chop-it. It looks a lot like
the Chopper III, which I own. It doesn't cut very square in two planes.
Does anybody know if this Chop-it is any better? It looks a lot like the
Chopper, so I'm suspecting the same shortcomings. I'm working on ...

I understand it's bad practice to have the ratios between pinions set such
as the same teeth always mesh - is this true for bevel gears?  I'm going to
cut a couple of bevel gears using the parallel depth method and a pair with
15 teeth, 40DP each would be best,  but 15 teeth and ...

In the In-Progress section of the master Box web site they show a
really neat WW2 figure set with US GI's and civilians. There are 3
GI's and three civilians. One figure is a nun driving a wagon, another
is a girl being carried by a GI and a third is a woman being helped

I picked up a resin conversion set 1:35 Legend IDF Centurion 1982
Conversion Set (TAM/ACA kits) #1065 at a swap meet.  Its the first
time I am working on a resin kit and I am surprised at myself that its
not as formidable as I had feared.  It also helps that I have a garage

OK not model engineering, but frequenters of this newsgroup have loads
of experience !
I have a Lancer Boss 2000Kg pallet truck that has just developed a
fault. It pumps up but then sinks back to ground! Presumably either a

If your workshop is like mine,  cold and damp until next spring,  bring
indoors those chinese digital scales&readouts...they don't like it uppem you
know!

Kit Review: DML 1/35 scale ‘39-‘45 Series Premium Edition British
Figure Sets
    Kit No. 6585; Red Devils w/Welbike and Drop Tube Container Arnhem
1944; 113 parts (98 in grey styrene, 15 etched brass); estimated price

...Here's hoping that everyone out there has a safe, happy and stuffed
Thanksgiving Day, eh?
                OM

curious as to whether or not a model is available for the Russian
transport used in the movie.
Has an angled B-25 type tail, and about 1000 wheels....
Ideas?

I don't have a rotary table at my disposal so I'm looking for some ideas
for building a radius jig to machine radii on the ends of flat bar .
I have a few ideas in my head as follows ,,,
 It would be a rotating affair with a base that can be held in the

Suggestions time.
I'm after a metal bodied round connector to handle 12 volts. Needs to
be 4-6 poles and ideally have a panel mounted socket with the flying
lead mounted plug having a screwed ring to fix the connection.