a. Now that you’ve left me. You’ll ever get to watch me sit in front of the television swearing at a kit full of resin parts. You’ll miss stepping on gun turrets in the shag pile. You’ll never know how the Matchbox Privateer turned out.
b. Now that you’ve switched from 1:12th scale supercar models to 1:144 scale aircraft. And you’ve spent the same amount of money for something that fits in a matchbox.
c. Now that you’ve read the book on Matchbox models and calculated how much the collection you gave away to the Marines would be worth on eBay.
d. Now that you’ve decided to collect all the Japanese anime fantasy space robot figures and found that they can make new ones faster than you can earn money as a brain surgeon to pay for them.
e. Now that you’ve switched from acrylic paint to enamel and have to wait a week between coats.
f. Now that you’ve switched from enamels to acrylics and the only place that the paints will cover is on the sample card in the shop.
g. Now that you’ve switched from enamel and acrylic to lacquer and everything in the refrigerator tastes like thinner*.
h. That you did not read the first page of the instruction and have to try to fit 2 kilos of lead shot into the nose of a fully painted model to get it up off the tail.
i. And that was with a Harvard trainer…
j. Now that you’ve left all your modelling magazines in a damp garage and they are as one.
k. Now that the council drained the swamp where you sailed your boat. And you found your other 14 boats…
* Laugh if you wish, but wait until you try it…fireglass resin does it even worse.
The Little World 
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