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The Specialty Wagon
Someone, somewhere, built special cars to transport any unlikely thing you can imagine. The LNER had fish vans, the NP had silk trains, and presumably the EFOM had tonky little coffee vans. You can buy potash cars that say ” Saskatchewan ” and presumably surprise your friends. I get my surprise looking a the odd…
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” Adopt And Honour “
A phrase spoken by our club President – Rob – when giving me the Grumman F9F Panther model you see in the heading. It is a product of the late John Evans – a prolific and skilled member of SMCWA for many years. He built any number of USN aircraft, as well as RAAF, RAF,…
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If You Have A Genuine Talent Or Gift
There are no end of cheap how-to books urging you to make money from it. If something is a genuine earner, this should present itself to you in no uncertain terms, and early on. If you find yourself scheming and convincing yourself, you are very likely lying. Many talents do not lend themselves to money…
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Airco DH2 – Part Two – The Little Revelation
Stand back, folks. I am about to admit I’ve been wrong. Wow, eh? Didn’t see that coming, did’ja? Neither did I, and it only hit me when I got to the end of this build. I have had a epiphany, or a revelation, or a slight brain fart. I have missed out on a lot…
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Airco DH2 – Part One – Shelf Lurker
This Smer kit of a 1/48th Airco ( by De Havilland ) sat on the storage room shelf of my hobby club from the day I joined until the day the committee finally were exasperated enough with the mess in there to clear out the dead wood. I am one of the natural sink traps…
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Yotta And Relse
Yotta do this, build those, watch that. Yotta… Relse. Relse you won’t be keeping up, or getting value, or…or…or… Or living your life the way the way Yotta and Relse have it planned out. They’re in the business of controlling you, even as they fail to control themselves. Advice and scolding are their tools of…
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A Pause Refreshes
And not just in the goffer trade. We all need to stop, wait, turn away, or find another thing to do occasionally – if we are not to burn out or become blasé about scale modelling. I have spent a month away from serious modelling – turning my attention to another hobby: photography. I’ve made…
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Scaling Up Your Scaling Down
When you are presented with requests. You give positive answers. Someone wanted decals for a model aircraft but couldn’t find them on the net. I did, but that probably wasn’t the question anyway. Fortunately the decal sheet needed was simple and illustrated cleanly in colour. Getting it onto Photoshop Elements was simple. Not so simple…
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No Kittens Were Harmed In The Making Of This Kit
But it was not for want of trying. Pets and scale model kits would be a combination made in Heaven, if Heaven involved a great deal of inconvenience and anger. Anyone who has seen a long-haired cat walk over a half-rigged biplane will know exactly what I mean. If you factor in the static electricity,…
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Boeing Clipper 314 – Part Five – A Soul At Rest
It took an extra week, but the time was worth it. The aggravating mistakes of the first Boeing Clipper 314 have been corrected. The mental image I had of the result has come into focus. I can rest easy. The duraluminium surface has been all I could ask for – taking decals perfectly and keeping…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 