Model Forum / General / Models / June 2010

Wow a REAL 1/72 C 5A at a real huge price !
Finally the thing is real.
Now I still wonder about a retractable landing gear lol......

Pulling a nail from a spare piece of wood. Despite your vice-like grip,
the pliers slip off, your elbow travels back at high speed and bruises
into the bench vice. You drop the piece of wood which lands on your
favourite scribing tool***** which just happened to be half on and half ...

It's been a year or so since I sealed up the front part of the big
B-36 before I put the innards inside. Needed to glue the wing spar and
CA, as invisible as it is, sealed things up.
Is it too late to use the debonder to hopefully get the fuselage parts

Evening all, nice out, isn't it?
I'm hoping to pick some brains, I recently acquired an ancient and abused
[1] Challenger lathe, mainly for the tooling and motor that came with it,
and I think I'd like to get it running to get back in the hang of machining

I get catalogs and emails selling 1/18, etc airplanes with perfectly
painted canopies. bought a lot of them too.
I assume these planes are built on the assembly line. I guess they
have some great system to paint/mask large numbers of subjects, and do

I've decided that I'm going to have to make the horizontal overam for
my Maho MH600 since the chance of finding one is slender. Fortunately
it shouldn't be too hard to make since the main component is a 90mm
diameter steel bar. Using solid steel bar would be rather wateful (and

Hi Guys! I'm hoping to get some info on an a/c display stand i saw a couple
of years ago.I cannot think of the mfg. name for the life of me.It looks
like an inverted tri-pod with rubber pads to set the a/c model on.It's a
clear material,lexan,polycarbonate,whatever.Have any of ...

Wiki shows lots if P's to pick from.  Anyone got an inside scoop ?
Craig
http://www.ehobbies.com/rvl04696.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_111

Just watched Thunderball and it got me interested in the kit again.
Tossed my Airfix kit away years ago.  Just way, way too much putty
work needed on that one, and I suck at putty application.
so, has anyone else made a kit of this gorgeous aircraft?

Req: Any info/advice/tips etc. on using resin detail parts, I'm new to
this area of model-making! Pleeeeze!

Has anyone experience milling prototype PCBs using gerber files as input.
I'm turning a working prototype breadboard into actual pcb (as oposed to a
lash up!) and would like to try milling it on my small cnc mill (ironically
the board is the mill controller!)

With the Confederate Raider and Zorro coming soon I was wondering if
anyone has seen a tutorial, etc on how to paint horses so they don't
look like plastic horses.
Craig