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If you d a search on this ste for hs name it crops up a few times, several in the pinned superthread. Unsure that superthead's help much though as, with multiple builds/themes on the go, they get confusing quite quickly.

As well as producing steel, the company I worked for also manufactured industrial cutting knifes, press tools & saws and, probably against intuition, many man made materals will wear a cutting edge faster than steel.

If I remember correctly over simplified looking at pictures. Deck and hull numbers will be the most problematic & at around 11% oversize, for 1/600, the starfighter decals will be noticably oversize. As for working wth old transfers do a search on here for possible solutions There will bo other posts too

Steel can be 'tweaked' by addition of varying combinations & quantities of alloying elements. Chromium for example imparts a degree of resitance to oxidation, rust resistence, inclusion of cobalt & tungsten are good for producing steels that will hold a cutting edge or retain properties at high temperatures. whole families of steels have been developed that excell in certain areas. These families range from simple mild steels through to quite sophisticated steels for use in jet engines and somewhere in the mixture lay a set of steels suitable for moulding and again properties of mould steels can differ with some grades more resitant to others to distortion some more suited to moulding metals than moulding plastics etc. In addition steels needs to be heat treated to atain the desired properties. so it's not about a 'better' steel, better at what?, its selection of a suitable steel. Having selected a steel the design of the mould plays a factor, not just the kit parts & runners but also ejector pins and cooling ports. Moulds get hot during use and that heat needs to be effectively removed, if the mould gets too hot then the properties of the steel will change, if it's removed unevenly the mould can distort preventing the faces of each half not meeting correctly. Mould are designed to be used in specific moulding machines, these machines wear and a mould that sat in machine type 'A' when first run say 20 years ago may not sit correctly in that same machine today, if that type of machine is still available if it's not then the mould may need modifying potentially introducinng issues. The number of uses, length of production runs, storage between uses, the grade of plastic(s), it's temperature, the volume injected, etc all have an influence on the quality of the kit parts. Options are limited, early moulds were often hand made by skilled toolmakers, CNC machining not being around in the 50's & 60's, a re-polish may be all that's possible. Many models today are short runs that may not use steels moulds but use other easier to work alloys with such moulds have a limited life. This is noteable in the Model Railway sphere where a manufacturer will issue a model of a locomotive which remains available only for a short time then a few years later introduces an improved version addressing faults on the first. I've probably not mentioned everything but as you can see there's a lot of factors at play when it comes to getting a good clean moulding.

£2 per day, 225 working days per year, 41 plus years - £20K's not far off. I switched when my regular lunch increased by 50% in twelve months that wasn't it though, the end came when having moved to new premesis the same order increased by over £1 overnight, over double in less than 9 months. Since then i've always bought the ingredients from one of the German supermakets & made my own @ work. Should have said that was around a dozen years ago - nothing to do with the recent increases.

Search on this site bring up this older topic only the link in the last post is still working.

Done that. A couple of Xmas's ago everyone was getting shortbread, picked the tins off the shelf in batches, took them in the house in batches, wrapping them one tin's light - turns out there's no content. Anyone tried returning an empty packet?

As the great comedian said, “Use the farce”

In the Tankograd book on British military trucks of WW2 there is a clear low level shot that shows no spare wheel attached to either the chassis or under the body or fittings for such. In their book on British trucks in Wehrmacht service thereis a rear three quarter shot showing the spare located flat on the load bed by the nearside tailgate. Both are early versions with civilan type tyres.

No numbers but in the 80's/90's Vickers had two factories, Leeds & Newcastle, both producing Challenger 2. Whilst ostensibly the same tank those produced @ Leeds were destined for the UK Army and armour plate had to undergo proof testing production to ensure performance levels. Newcastle built Challengers were for the export market & whilst the armour was to the same composition and metallurgical requirements the proof testing was not required. As this may be the same for other tanks it may be better when quoting numbers to differentiate between markets or even production sites if possible.

Mate had a car in his workshop for a while displaying MR5 1 F..

Interesting but what does the clause permit or prevent? Which juristiction(s)? Persumably the term 'academic' limits use to within an educational (school, college, university) establishment and not the WWW. Work on the premise that if it's not your own work then posting a link is the safest option.

Official Leyland drawing of the commercial chassis version with dimensions, note wheel base matches the Mick Bell plans @ 17' 11". Hippo Chassis (open the link & click on 'zoom page' then use the mouse to drag the scan of the page around) The wheel base of the AEC 0854 Tanker, never officially referred to by the RAF or AEC as the Matador, was 14' 9.125" long i.e. just under 3' 2" shorter so the Airfix chassis will require lengthening.

The company I used to work for was a major producer of armour plate & in the mid sixties, when the MD at the time was made 'Master Cutler' for the year an open day was held at the works where all sorts of equipment was on display including one of AFV's so one of mine will be used to re-create the display which consised of a Ferret, a FV432 & a Saladin. Also gives a nice excuse for pristine vehicles. Now where did I file the picture?

Cheers, ws worth an ask.

Longshot but do you know who produced these cabs?

Chef Ramsey must know after all he takes umbrage at anything raw or burnt.

If you an find/supply some artwork try one of the custom transfer manufaturers.

Commercially sensitive info that neither Airfix or Tamiya are likely to release.

Both are Austin K2's stemming from the 'Katy' ambulance both produce. I believe that the Airfix represents an early version, Gecko a later version with the roof hip ring. Price difference is due to the complexity, parts count of the build.

Why 'delete' the message? Why not share the info?

Welcome back Rob, great to see some actual modelling return to these threads & good it is too. Just wondering why you started with a 3mm rod & not 8BA countersunk bolts?

and is the fast food industry riddled with Free-Fries-Phobia

The fear or female Ogres - Fee-Fi-Fiona

Is a lorry designed to carry hellium gas lighter or heavier when full?