The Little World

Every dinner does you good – if you eat it in pleasant company. Keep this analogy in mind when you sit down and think of doing some scale modelling.

Every dinner needs preparation – oh, you might go to some restaurant and have it placed in front of you, but you will pay heavily for the privilege. If you make it yourself you’ll benefit at a lower price.

Every dinner has a start, a middle and an ending – even if the ending is just washing the dishes. So too with modelling. You open the kit or take out the raw wood, you work with it all, and then you finish up the result.

Every dinner bears some relationship to other dinners. The food is on the top of the plate, and, if you are lucky, will not poison you. You can recognise the dinner by the general resemblance it has to other dinners you’ve had in the past.

Every dinner, however, is a new one. Fresh food and a fresh experience. If your encounter with a certain recipe prepared in a certain way before is modified by different ingredients and different cooking – it is an entirely new world. Same with models you may have built before – if it is a different maker or a different marque or a different paint job – you are making an entirely different thing.

Not every dinner will be delightful. Not every model, either. But keep chewing or sanding and eventually it will be acceptable.

Don’t expect everyone else to like your dinner…or to like your model. It is not their dinner and not their model.

And expect to get hungry again tomorrow – that is what grocery stores and hobby shops are for…