The Little World

Not even a modeller. Well…not this modeller, anyway.

We all have brain breaks occasionally – we start out thinking fine and then one of the mental drive belts hops off a wheel and the next thing you know we’re Jim Carrey on a bender. It happens in the modelling workshop, too.

Today, for instance. Time to spray the model with Satin Cote and as it was a cold morning I warmed up the bottle in a pan of hot water. That was fine, as it decanted into the mixing dish well. The Humbrol thinner went in okay. And then the lot went into the pot of the airbrush.

I wondered at what seemed to be a blocked nozzle but eventually it started spraying well and I finished the upper surface coat. It was only when I to clean the brush that I realised I had not stirred the mixture before loading the pot. No wonder the first lot was sluggish – it was pure varnish.

Fortunately the thinner broke through the throat of the gun quickly and finished the job well – I didn’t have to respray. And I was very assiduous in stirring the thing for the lower surfaces later on.

I accept the troubles that lack of concentration brings these days, but I hope it doesn’t get worse over time. It would put an end to my other hobby of amateur dynamite production.