Small Scale Military Headquarters

There's also been a few "conversions" of the F5 into other aircraft, both real and fictional. Instead of the F5's normal wings, give it forward-swept mainplanes and horizontal "trailing edge extensions" and you'd have either an X-29 or a Battletech Stingray, for example. I'd like one or two, but I'm...

I make the IFV out to be 15" from the back of the rear door to the tip (is that the right word?) of the bow (with the swim plate folded), 6" side-to-side across the widest point (lower hull is just over 3", top of hull is 4.5") and it stands 6.5" to the top of the gun mount, just over 4.75 to the to...

I have to raise funds in a hurry so need (do NOT want!) to sell the following: AH1 HueyCobra ('Snake' scheme) AH6 Little Bird (all black US Army) AH64 Apache OH58 Kiowa Warrior (US Army green scheme) UH60 BlackHawk F16 (Wolfpack) F18 Hornet (VFA190) Also 1/6th AH6 LittleBird EDIT: No boxes so postag...

Unless you are gonna start munching on a circuit board from inside the tank you are safe... :lol: A word on these 1/24 tanks.... they are fine for indoors on carpet, or outdoors on driveways or other relatively smooth surfaces, but they are pretty limited on any kind of rough terrain, for that 1/16...

http://mmodell.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=709 Apparently, these will be available late August/September. Is it just me, or does everyone get a "this image has been removed" marker where GooglyDoogly's avatar should be? (Or has this already been covered and I've missed the thread? :oops...

your welcome, sorry i have been ill so slow to respond sorry t misidentify the gas guzzler there. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/Cabe5/gifs%20and%20avatars/62748-grammar-nazi.jpg Ha. Calling a Land Rover a Range Rover is more like getting your current girlfriend's name mixed up with the last...

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It's a LAND Rover, not a RANGE Rover.

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Good work though...

Just a thought, but could you get silicon rubber in there rather than epoxy resin? You mentioning vibrations made me realise that a solid resin might break apart from the vibration - it may not seem like there's much, but there could be enough to make it crack and flake over time... If you use silic...

You really should solder it first. It won't take much, and you will make sure that you won't lose the power which you could do if you just coat it in glue or epoxy - no matter how tight you think the wire is twisted on, if any insulator gets between the wire and the motor eye you will lose the conne...

Panzer_M wrote:uh link to site?

That'll be the "website" button at the bottom of their post, then (next to 'profile' and 'send pm').

BIRDDOG: Thanks. Too bad, the A-10 looks pretty good. I hope their Steve Ritchie F-4 fares better. There was a nasty rumor that both the C21 A10 and F4 (especially the F4) were "shown" to stop other people making them - given the call, nay demand for these aircraft from members of this community, t...

D'Oh! My bad - I misread what you'd put - you meant 1/32nd detailing on 1/32nd C21 models, didn't you? :oops: :oops: If you're not too bothered about 100% accurate scale appearace, you *can* use PE and resin details on kit they were not originally designed for... I've used a couple of model railway ...

Spad is the nickname for the Skyraider, which AT is producing. Hmm, wasn't the Skyraider also the original Vietnam era "Sandy" rescue escort bird? Didn't someone recently suggest using the 'Hog for the same job? (And now I can't get rid of the mental image of an A10 or two trolling along beside a P...

But back to the original question. Why no modern planes? Honestly, just look at the military scale model hobby. WWII-related stuff are faaaarrrrrrrrr more popular than modern ones. Am I saying that modern stuff don't sell well? Of course not. There are many of those that love to build modern warpla...

What about your local Scout troop? Or do you have Air Cadets over there? (We've got the Air Training Corps over here in Blighty). They'd probably love something that sort of size to "play" with. Failing that, you could always try your local schools and colleges (especially if they teach aeronautics)...

Sadly they have adopted the same policy as the other manufacturers - say nothing about new AC. As a result we are in the dark on all fronts. I really wish we never gave the companies a hard time about missing deadlines or announcing planes they wind up not making - now we get no announcements, noth...

Bureaufighter first, with Rafale hot on its tail. Of course, if we get the fixed-wing stuff then we need some European helis to go with them... how about the Gazelle, Lynx and Tiger to start with, the Puma, A109 Koala and MBB Bo.105 for "fun" value and then the Super Frelon as it is still the only h...

thehun wrote: Well this means i'm gonna have to do a lot of scratch building,

Can anyone tell me where to buy shares in this "scratch" stuff? These guys use it all the time and it gives excellent results. All I ever make is a mess!

I guess you can consider false bids to drive a price higher. I have seen auctions in the past that look rather suspicious. I have no idea about this XD stuff because I rarely buy these on Ebay, but I do check every once in a while to see if I want to sell something. If you can sell something and it...

So I thought "ok, this must be one of those *rare*, *unusual* production flaws that even 21st Century Toys is entitled to every once in a while..." And went about the business of finishing the assembly process, but since the included instructions weren't too clear I decided to check some of the det...

Best advice for soldering iron use; don't plug it in, switch it on and then pick it up by the thin, metal end. :? And definitely do NOT sit there watching smoke curling out from between your fingers! :shock: :oops: One of the best electronics designers I ever met, but the common sense of a housebric...

A rock in the nose as a counter weight? Perhaps, in their zest for accuracy they went too far. Remember that the night fighter was a "late" war design. The Germans had been bombed practically into the "stone age" and had to improvise all kinds of quick fixes using readily found materials. Of coarse...

It was the main USAF, Navy and USMC fighter-bomber in the most controversial war in US history Um, isn't that the second most controversial war now? And why do so many people insist on calling it an American war when soldiers from other nations gave their lives as well?? To keep this on-topic, it's...

They could be the sort of thing the "real steel" manufacturers take to air shows the world over - scale models of their products to show potential customers, often done up in the colours of the show's hosts nation as a marketing gimmick. I've seen similar things at the Farnborough show, normally fro...

Actually, they do come off :shock: if you use a couple of flat-bladed screwdrivers, a fair amount of effort :lol: .... and some rude language when you hear the sound of cracking plastic. :cry: :oops: I started by lifting the leading edge of the starboard stab by hand and shoving a screwdriver undern...