Sprue Bits

Here's the latest tidbits that came across the desks of the Internet Modeler staff:

From Aves Studio:

New Product Press Release: Apoxie® Paste

Apoxie® Paste is an innovative product used to permanently fill, bond, seal, customize, fabricate, and repair most materials. It is a semi-fluid, 2-part medium. This all-purpose paste is stir-able, yet thick enough that it tends to stay put. This paste is extremely adhesive, durable, and strong. It has been proven effective on fabrics, plastics, resin, kits, glass, polymers, ceramics, metals, wood, stone, foam, and more! Use for arts and crafts, antique restoration; home, toy and doll repairs; glass art, wildlife art, model making; jewelry; etc. Apoxie® Paste is easy and safe to use, unlike solvent-based liquids. It can be spread thick or thin with a craft stick or tool. Apoxie® Paste is slightly translucent with gripping flexibility. It is also non-toxic, non-flammable, non-conductive, freeze-thaw stable, has 0% shrinkage, and is waterproof. It contains no solvents and is safe to use with potable water. Apoxie® Paste self-hardens, with a working time of about 3 hours, a set time of 6 hours, and a 24 hour full cure time. It is naturally khaki in color. You can tint it with paint while mixing to match or create the desired color. It can be seamlessly feathered before setup, and can be tapped, drilled, sanded, filed, and painted to finish. Clean up is a breeze with Apoxie® Safety Solvent. Apoxie® Paste is available exclusively through Aves Studio and its distributors. For more information about this and other great Aves’ products, visit their website at www.avesstudio.com.

New Product Press Release: Apoxie® Safety Solvent

Apoxie® Safety Solvent is recommended for tooling, smoothing, texturing, and quickly cleaning Apoxie products from your tools, brushes, and work surfaces. Simple water clean up. This is a “must have” companion for our line of two-part clays, including Apoxie® Paste, Apoxie® Sculpt, Apoxie® Clay, FIXIT® Paste, and FIXIT®. Apoxie® Safety Solvent has been proven effective to remove nearly any sticky substance, such as label residue, other epoxies (before setup), etc. It also removes inks, markers, and stains from white boards, fabrics, and other surfaces (always be sure to first test surface or fabric for color-fastness and structure). Apoxie® Safety Solvent is safer than most all solvents available. It is a great replacement for acetone and other commonly used toxic solvents. This clear liquid offers low flammability, a high flash point, low odor, and low fumes. It is freeze-thaw stable with an incredible shelf life. Apoxie® Safety Solvent is DOT Certified for shipping by air, land, or sea. It does NOT contain alcohol, M.E.K.P., paint thinners, or other harmful substances found in other, similar products. Apoxie® Safety Solvent comes in a flip top plastic squeeze bottle in 3 convenient sizes, and is available exclusively through Aves Studio and its distributors. For more information about this and other great Aves’ products, visit their website at www.avesstudio.com.

From F-DCAL:

Here is a list of new releases from F-DCAL, in 1/144:

- Gulf Air VC-10 Golden Falcon
- Omani VC-10
- Saudia MD90
- Saudia 757
- Saudia 747
- Norvegian.no 737-300 (S. Henjie)
- Norvegian.no 737-300 (F. Nansen)
- Lufthansa 737-300
- Deutsche BA 737-300
- Air New Zealand 747-400
- Faucett Aero Peru L1011
- Air Inter Caravelle
- Lan Chile Caravelle
- Aeropostal A320
- BWIA 707
- Austral BAC 1-11
- British Eagle BAC 1-11
- KLM BAC 1-11
- SAS BAC 1-11
- Swissair BAC 1-11

Decals which were announced and are finally available
- Balkan TU-154
- Cubana TU-154 (old and new)
- Seaboard World Containership 747
- Flying Tigers 727 (Cigar Band)
- Flying Tigers 747 (Cigar Band)
- Flying Tigers 707 (Broken Arrow)
- South African 747-400 (new livery)

Follow-Up to Review of Sword's 1/72 Sikorsky S-43 "Baby Clipper"

By Jim Schubert

Here's a photo, made by IPMS-Seattle member Tim Nelson in February of 2003 of the Baby Clipper recently restored by the Pima Air Museum in Tucson. The airplane is actually a civil S-43 painted as the US Marine Corps JRS-1 that inspired Sword's decals. Sikorsky built it in 1937, and sold it to Hawaiian Inter-Island as NC16394 which later sold it to Alaskan Airlines. It crashed into Lake Tetlin, Alaska and was written off in 1951. Gary Larkins recovered it in 1981 and trucked it to the USMC Air-Ground Museum. Pima got it on loan in 1985. They finished the restoration and put the airplane on display in 2000 painted as USMC JRS-1, Bureau of Aeronautics Number (BuNo) 1059. Any further information will be appreciated and shared via this magazine.

I am working on markings drawings for a PAA S-43 for the SPRUE BITS section of a future issue of Internet Modeler.

From Bra.Z Models:

This year Bra.Z Models new releases will be very limited. The only items that I'm 100% sure that will be issued are the following:

VC-10 engines
SVC-10 engines
SVC-10 plugs conversion
All the above for Airfix 1/144 scale VC-10 kit
Concord (Revell) drop down nose conv. set

They will be available starting from Telford 2003 show edition.