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The Swedish Curse
Cold winters. Long nights. Trapped in the hangar with nothing to do. Add an active crew in the paint shop and an account down the local Bunnings paint department… And there you go. Camouflage schemes that involve 45 different colours with hard lines and geometric angles. And every modeller who wants a Viggen or a…
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Scale Model Envy
Sin in miniature. I rarely give way to envy at the scale model exhibition – even in the competition hall when most of the entries are far better than I could do. But I did come over all goosey when I saw this model of a Cletrac airfield tractor. It appears to be in 1:48…
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Working With The Materials
As opposed to in spite of them. Modellers can be assemblers or fabricators; putting together a kit or building a model from basic materials. Either way they are making the wood, plastic, metal, or other stuff do what they want…more or less. Some kits, and some plans resist even the most skilled workers. Do what…
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Portion Control
That wonderful catering phrase that means keeping serving sizes down to boost profits. Less jam and more return. I also wonder if it is practised in the scale model supply business – particularly with model paints. I use the Big Two Japanese brands of alcohol and spirit-based acrylic paints- the ones in the round jars…
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What’s A Success In Scale Modelling?
Depends – and on a number of factors. Firstly there’s the modeller. Some are dedicated, some are casual. For some it is a hobby – for others, real life. The intense modeller may set higher goals for themselves than the person who treats it lightly. Then there’s the intent. If someone sets out to tell…
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A Different Bird
Oh, what a load of tales circle about the Plague Doctor’s costume. You can Wiki them yourself – I did and was immediately suspicious of the stories and supposed history. So many illustrations and rumours from the middle ages and renaissance eras have taken on lives of their own that I take many of them…
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The Bird
In this case, I believe, a Puffin. I was delighted to see that someone entered a model of this bird in the WASMex competition this year. A recent video we made mentioned the kits that were once produced of North American songbirds and asked where they had got to. Perhaps the idea has never gone…
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If You Only Have One Computer
And only add one program… Add Photoshop Elements. Whatever your machine will cope with – whatever the current iteration is. Go add an old version if that is all that you can get. It is a mom-and-pop editing program for Mac or Windows that lets the consumer use simplified commands and tools to make nearly…
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Say What You Will About the Design
And debate as much as you like how well it might have done against a Tiger I… I still want one – as the shopping vehicle for my local IGA car park. The bays in the centre have been painted on the asphalt in such a way as to get the most cars – and…
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The Dorchester
When You Take The Office With You This model of the AEC command vehicle nicknamed the Dorchester was one of the highlights for me at the recent WASMex exhibition. I think the appeal was the fact that the modeller left the roof off and super-detailled the interior. I cannot tell from my photo whether the…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 