From: Think Tank Subject: Think Tank Vol. 0055 26/11/2000 Think.tank@tesco.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS' INDEX 1: Pointless discoveries? 2: Canadian Valentines 3: Milipics offer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD INDEX 1: Next edition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: Micks [M.Pallas@tesco.net] Subject: Pointless discoveries? Further to Dan Taylor's revelations about the use cyano on greaseproof paper, here is another. If, like me, you have sausages instead of fingers you meet a problem with small pieces of etched metal, plastic and cyano vs the resultant mess. Try sticking the metal part to a piece of 5 thou card. When it is completely dry, cut and trim to the edges of the plastic and gently sand down to 1 or 2 thou then you can adhere the bits with your favourite adhesive (mine is MEK). I don't pretend to be a purist and find that the resultant 'growth' does not detract from the finished model. Mick Pallas I was fortunate to have a method for obtaining very small quantities of cyanoacrylate from a tube demonstrated to me while staying with Darren Scannell at the UK IPMS Nats this year. He takes a piece of thin clear plastic tubing (he uses stuff used by the r/c aircraft fraternity that looks much like a Bic biro refill) and stretches it over a flame like the technique used for making stretched sprue until the thinnest piece is very thin. He then cuts it in the middle and also at one end of the elongated cone such that there is a few mm of the original tubing diameter left. The nozzle of the cyano tube (made of a similar material to the tubing apparently, so the glue will not bond it) is then cut down so that thicker end of the stretched tubing can be slid tightly inside. Squeeze the cyano tube and out comes a very small bead of glue from the thin end. If none comes out at all, don't squeeze harder (!) but snip off a bit as the hole is probably too small. When the hole clogs up, snip off the end and carry on, until the hole gets too big, at which point replace it with another bit of stretched tubing. I watched this happen (it is much easier to demonstrate than to describe) and it was very impressive. He glued a piece of p/e railing in 1/700 scale before my eyes - there was no adhesive residue visible at all and the railing was firmly attached to the base. It was the closest I have been to modelling all year :-(.. Robert -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: Paul Roberts [proberts@mail.tamcotec.com] Subject: Canadian Valentines > Subject: Soviet Union Factbook - Lend-Lease > Canadian vehicles > Valentine Mk. IX/XI Actually we built the Mk VI, VII, & VIIa, all 2 man turret w/ 2pdrs. Paul Paul Roberts | Accuracy Scale Tech Distributing | is our Measure of Scale Model Builders | Quality proberts@tamcotec.com Visit our home page http://www.tamcotec.com/proberts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: John Harris [john@ukmilmod.force9.co.uk] Subject: Milipics offer Dear all, a promotion by Milipics (http://www.milipics.com/), which hopefully is of interest. On December the first Milipics are going to launch a set of pictures of a rare original and well documented Kubelwagen - and giving the whole lot away for free! All you have to do is add your email address to our list, and help yourself I have no interest in Milipics, other than as a source of photos. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: Listmaster Subject: Next edition I managed to survive the Italian driving experience somehow despite failing to equip myself with the sort of armoured vehicle that is probably highly desirable when tackling such things. However, I will be away next weekend as well, so the next edition will probably appear on 5th December. Robert -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Lockie (Think Tank Listmaster) Visit the Miniature AFV Association website at http://homepages.go.com/~mafva/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume