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Serious Modelling
It is only serious modelling when the build blows up in your face or sends you to Royal Perth Casualty. That is why I have respect for this entry in the recent WASMex competition. It seems to be the result of welding and metal fabrication and is one of the few scale models I have…
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Who In Their Right Mind
Would line up to buy old model kits? I don’t know. Because just after I shot this panorama ( not a complete one, mind…) I joined the end of the queue. It was like the Oklahoma Land Rush, but in styrene. Some stash sales are sedate affairs. Discretely attended by studious enthusiasts who quietly murmur…
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Who Did It Best?
At today’s scale model exhibition I noted the same model on two different tables – one for pure display and one for competition. They were both renditions of a 1:24th Landrover by Italeri and both finished superbly. I would be proud of either of them – t’were other dear charmer away… I was pleased to…
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Always Help Out At The Exhibition
Anything you can do to assist the smooth running of he scale model exhibition is a good thing. It could be as simple as making sure the cars are parked far away from the venue as possible. Or demanding money with menaces at the door. Even if all you do is stand and glare at…
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All Kit Builders Should Build Something From Scratch
All scratch-builders should build a model from a kit. It is no good looking at someone else’s take on the scale model hobby and pooh poohing it. Or wondering whether they have it better than you. Or wondering whether you could ever do it… Wise experimenters do it simple at first. The long-time kit builder…
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When The Shopkeeper Gets Coy
When they run the product in the shelf so that you cannot see the price tag… When they put a “ Special “ sticker on something that has been there longer than you have been shaving… When they use that same “ Special “ sticker on something that has only just been shelved… You know…
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Soviet Hound – Part Five – ” I Have Maybe Helicopter “
” You need use maybe helicopter ? “ Drive truck to back of tarmac and have roubles in briefcase. Just you and barrels. Wait a minute. You pay for three barrel to fly. I count – here is six barrel. No labels on barrel. What inside? What you mean, ” Never mind? ” . Never…
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Soviet Hound – Part Four – It Is Never Open And Shut
It used to be – in the dear old days of Airfix and Monogram. You could buy a model kit that did things. Ailerons moved. as did flaps, elevators, and rudders. Canopies slid back over cockpits and wheels retracted into wells. Occasionally a bomb bay door opened and something fell out. It was all over-scale…
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Soviet Hound – Part Three – Delicacy Rears its Ugly Head
Or is it a frugal conscience? Or just inability to mix paint right? I wondered this as I inspected the Mil 4 model this week after spraying the grey undercoat. I had run out of Base White 1000 – my preferred undercoat for models that are going to be white or yellow – and was…
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Soviet Hound – Part Two – A Day’s Work
Since I retired a second time I have been busy being idle. It is a damned hard thing – you no sooner turn around than another thing falls off the house or someone comes to the door bleeding. It is no good slamming it shut and heading for the drinks trolley – eventually they will…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 