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Kit Review: AFV Club 1/48 scale Kit No. AR48102; Northrop F-5E Tiger
II; 182 parts (168 in light grey styrene, 7 clear styrene, 4 vinyl
keepers, 3 etched metal); price not known
Advantages: modern, state of the art kit of this aircraft; uses the

Hey all!
Several years and computer crashes ago, I had come
across a web page by a dude who was making his
own flight simulator and was building everything from

Just got back from seeing the movie "Avatar" and I have to ask, is
anyone making or plan to make any of the harware from the film? This
would include the Battle Walker, the ersatz helicopter, the shuttle
and the, well the flying fortress for want of a better term. Figures?

RE.  the recent Tamiya Spitfire IX, could someone recommend a
resource, (print, web or where ever), that would have some unusual
colour profiles for that mark? As much as possible I'd like to build
it straight OOB but would like to do something other than the

This one is worth reading. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LB20Df01.html
American blitzkrieg
The United States military's infatuation with the German military has
led to it seeing war as a creative science, not a man-made disaster,

I'm  just planning my next project which calls for the use of High Density
Metal,  which has a specific gravity of 17 and is apparently tough to
machine.   It's used as counterbalance weights in a crankshaft web.    The
weights will be 6mm diameter bullets inserted into the crank ...

danged if I can tell  what the differences are between the two.
http://search.store.yahoo.net/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=internethobbies&query=hanomag

Gentlemen,
I recently bought a dehumidifier to hopefully reduce the rusting
problems in my "workshop".
Hopefully the following may be of interest

Some info from the 2010 Nuremberg toy fair
http://www.primeportal.net/models/nuremberg_2010.htm

Some time back someone posted a link to a video showing a chap drilling
a hole in a thin brass bar in a lathe.
Iirc he used a chaser to make a cone-shaped cut in the end of the bar,
then used a drill held in his fingers to make the hole. It was a very

I need to glue a stack of 40+ brass and steel pieces. They will be
pulled together with three tie bars. They are a bit finicky to get
lined up so I need a reasonably long wet time. I also need a "thin"
adhesive as I do not want a tolerance build up.

If this price is right, I can see a squadron of them hanging from the
garage...  You can get 4-5 of them for the price of the Tamiya kit.
Very, very tempting...
Craig

The local brewery uses immersion heaters in the hot liquor tank. This runs
at about 78 C so develops a fair amount of limescale. Any idea where we
might find a 2 1/4 bsp thread chaser to clean up the threads when replacing
elements? (£300 for a "proper" tap is a bit of an ...

Hey all!
Does anyone know of a resin or injected turret
and top for the Airfix Waterbuffalo kit?  I'd like
to do a different version for the Saipan/Guam

I was told by the sales guy at Berkeley Hardware that this kit is part
of a series. that there may be 2-3 other kits.
Anyone know about this?
Link to them?