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  1. Cybergrinder

    Power supply question....Hornby railways

    I recently collected my old (1980's) 00 gauge Hornby sets from my folks, only to find that my Dad has lost the PSU.... Can anyone help me with the current (I know that they run 12-15V DC safely) but I've googled myself silly trying to find the current with no avail. I'll try to post some pics...
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    A trip down memory lane....

    So, I collected some of my old plastic model ship form my parents over the weekend, and here's some shots! There all from the age of sail (with one exception :)) No prizes for spotting the odd one out... Here we have HMS Victory, the first square rigger I tackled :) The Wasa, last plastic...
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    The Destroyer Beholds...

    No, sorry this isn't a post about a Star Destroyer :( Sadly, we had renovators in the house, and in the process they moved (read destroyed) most of my model collection. So, paper to paper, glue to glue. We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of; Incom T-65 X-Wing Babylon 5 Thunderbird 1...
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    5...4...3...2...1... Thunderbirds are go!

    Well, Sort of... In case anyone (doubt it) does not know the Thunderbirds, here's the intro from the original series For the record, the live action movie that came out was....:stinkyfeet: First off, TB 5, 3 & 1 are quite easy builds so no build thread, I will post building progress when I...
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    What I did for Christmas....

    So, the family & I went away for a few weeks to the Drakensberg (big mountain range here in SA) with no real internet signal :( (Hence my absence from the forum....) I took along Clever Santos' USS Equinox. It's only 5 pages and when I saw it I had to ask; to greeble or not to greeble. Then I...
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    If pigs could fly....

    They'd fly away, wouldn't they? They must know that sooner or later they are going to be eaten, right? ;) Semi seriously now; if you could have any sci-fi gadget in really, what would it be? my choice - a lightsaber! :fight: Even without Jedi powers it is possibly the coolest gadget around...
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    Shelfies!

    Inspired by Space Agents "quick shot" post, I thought I would be fun to show off our model collections :) Here's mine (Striker Eureka is too big for this shelf... :() (And not finished yet...))
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    Biltong! Or, how to build a drier :)

    (And all the South Africans clicked here) :) For those who don't know biltong is a South African delacacy, strips of dried meat season to taste. (The same as "jerky" I believe, only we cut the meat thinner) As briefly mentioned on Tonino's LM thread, here are a few pictures of my home-made...
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    Trying to find the light of the Saviour Machine....

    Hi All, As one may gather from the subject line, I'm trying to find some info about the Goth band Saviour Machine. The vocalist & founder of the band is Eric Clayton, with his brother Jeff. Their site has been down a while & any other source of info (facebook, etc) hasn't been updated in a...
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    Bring on the Kaiju's!

    Ok, I started Striker Eureka from the movie Pacific Rim over the weekend. Let us just set the mood first.... :fight: the template is from paper-replika, and as usual for Julius' work, a very nice template to work with! I started with the recessed parts which came together nicely The I...
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    USS Defiant (DS9) 1:400 scale (finally...)

    Ok, I've talked about it allot and finally have started building the Defiant! Before anything more is said, Huge thanks to Revell-fan, who helped me countless times in the unfold, cleanup and general design of the model. Thanks also to ThunderChild, for kind permission to use his supports...
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    Some say....

    That he could be made from paper... And that he is hiding somewhere in Zealot... All we know is there is no paper model of the Stig! In my defence I tried but my designing skill are nowhere good enough (The cubee that can be found on the net is cute, but not really realistic)
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    Handles....

    Out of curiosity, what made everyone choose there particular handle or screen name, and inspiration thereof? To start the ball rolling; mine was inspired by a particularly fast version of thrash/grind heavy metal, pioneered by a Christian Aussie band called,, yes,, Cybergrind :) and I just...
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    Internal supports...

    Hi all, I've extracted a few models from X-Wing Alliance, including the "biggie" of a 1m long Star Destroyer. Pepkuria is great to unfold & plan out the "skin" of the model but now this one is going to need a great deal of support. Any suggestions as to how I can do this, I've tried measuring...
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    USS Voyager, boldly going .....into completion!

    Very slowly :) As was requested from the introduction thread, here's a bit of progress on my USS Voyager. It's the Christine model, very nice templates :) So far I've got the wing, secondary hull & neck done since starting at the end of May.
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    Age old debate with a twist....

    Of course I refer to the debate of which is better; Star Wars or Star Trek. I've built a few models from both series, and the twist is; which franchise's vessels make the better models? (in the interests of keeping the debate unbiased try not to pick one designer over another? :))
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    Greetings from South Africa

    Hi All, I'm based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Most of my free time is spent building Sci-fi models when I'm not on my bicycle or looking after my 2 kids (5 & 18 months). I'm currently building a challenging USS Voyager which has been in progress the last month or so....