• Modelers Alliance has updated the forum software on our website. We have migrated all post, content and user accounts but we could not migrate the passwords.
    This requires that you manually reset your password.
    Please click here, http://modelersalliance.org/forums/login to go to logon page and use the "Forgot your Password" option.

paddy's latest activity

  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Italeri Manx Norton 1/9 FINISHED.
    Its been one of those days today, its rained from Dawn to Dusk, i left my boots outside last night and even they are full of water now...
    • DSC_1512.JPG
  • paddy
    :nopics:
  • paddy
    Having just completed a wood and metal San Francisco Cable Car model, my next project is to build and detail the Italeri Bugatti 35B...
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Italeri Manx Norton 1/9 FINISHED.
    I would guess that their lathe was designed by someone who had never used a lathe. Commercially available 8mm tipped tools are to long...
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Italeri Manx Norton 1/9 FINISHED.
    I machined of quite a bit off the post clamp which adds 5mm to the throat depth Agree about style over substance, i bought their mini...
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Italeri Manx Norton 1/9 FINISHED.
    When you build your Manx take extra care, the 2 side plates that run from the crankcases back and hold the gearbox are not symmetrical...
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Italeri Manx Norton 1/9 FINISHED.
    They actually added an X-Y cross slide this week for the drill. My only criticism of the drill is they could have made the through a...
  • paddy
    i built this a couple of years ago and i was thinking , after my cut away Fiat ,l what about a bit of a re design of this thing. , super...
    • Italari fiat Mefiistofele  (1).JPG
    • Italari fiat Mefiistofele  (10).JPG
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Italeri Manx Norton 1/9 FINISHED.
    You can see here i need to completely finish the oil tank as its sandwiched between the frame halves. It could go in after the frame is...
    • DSC_1506.JPG
    • DSC_1507.JPG
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Latest Acquisitions Revisited!.
    almost embarrassed to say i bought another one of these MFH bikes. This one is half pushbike :-) but i console myself in that i get...
    • 9_M18_004.jpg
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Italeri Manx Norton 1/9 FINISHED.
    My god this thing is crude to the extreme, i would imagine a fair proportion of these things wind up in the bin by page 2 of the useless...
    • DSC_1503.JPG
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Eh up!.
    You seem to be settling in well Nick, I can see you could cost a few of us a lot of money.......... (note to self....you dont need a 4...
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Kotare Spitfire.
    I love the shape of those early Spits, they started to lose that after the Mk V ... enjoying the update :-)
  • paddy
    paddy reacted to moon puppy's post in the thread Kotare Spitfire with Like Like.
    I tell ya Paddy, if this had an engine I probably wouldn't be building it right now. I think I paid $70 at the Squadron booth at a show...
  • paddy
    paddy replied to the thread Kotare Spitfire.
    Sounds like you got it a a good price. Of course you dont actually have top use the engine in the Tamiya build. I just hear a lot about...
Back
Top