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If The Light Is Lousy
Shoot in black and white. This advice applies for most realistic shots of the early twentieth century. Most were taken with monochrome film or plates and appear in our consciousness as such. Now, of course, AI and ambition colourise the older photos and we get a better idea of what things might really have looked…
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The Puppy And The Old Dog
Makes you nostalgic, eh? We start with such high hopes and so much precision. then we encounter The Kit From Hell and the bottle of nuclear waste thinner and it all goes wrong. As the years go by the mat gets punished for our sins but the models get better. We watch as markings disappear…
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Sailing Dangerous Waters
And not sure when the voyage will end. The galley depicted here looks very much like illustrations of an Academy kit of a Roman galley – 1/72 scale – that appears on the Amazon website. I presume it is this one, though it may have been bought some time ago. It has been built magnificently…
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One From My Childhood
Few people these days ride Stegosauruses. When I was young I frequently got to slide down the back of the Stegosaurus in Calgary zoo – an area of Western Canada famed for prehistoric wildlife. I never had the nerve to try to climb the Brontosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex was kept behind a fence. However,…
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While They Welcome Constructive Criticism…
Please do not shoot the committee. No matter what the organisers of anything do, there will be critics. Even if an event goes perfectly – with no hitches at all – someone will complain that it could have been bigger, better, cheaper, or raspberry-flavoured. If the weather, traffic, or crowds present a problem, the critics…
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Priorities
Many thanks to the modeller who prepared this little moral vignette for the competition table. It serves as a timely reminder to us all that in the midst of turmoil, we should look to the important things first. Like the business of getting our models to the show. I packed mine in individual boxes with…
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Tunnel Of Love
And who could resist… I know I wasn’t supposed to lean over the table to take the picture – for a very good reason. All the models under me were in danger. This was the case on my own table out in the main hall – the inability of the public to look at anything…
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A Big Round Of Applause
For the organisers of this year’s WASMex show. Not for the weather or the parking or the fences. For the lighting in the competition hall. It was vastly improved over previous years, and deliberately so. The windows at the sides of the competition hall in the Liddelow Pavilion do let a lot of light in…
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Been There?
Done that? Going to do it again? I’ll bet I am. I will take a model to an exhibition and it will break en-route. Or I will bring it home and the same will occur. Or it will just collapse on the show table from a combination of stress and snarkiness. No exhibitor should neglect…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 