The Little World

The Hiatus was a heavy triplane bomber designed by Handley Page…but they paused the production…

All modellers stop occasionally to take stock. To draw a breath. To pacify the wife. It doesn’t mean that they will not be building again – it just means that it will not be today. Today will be devoted to other pursuits.

There are so many calls upon our time – not to say on our wallet – that we need to step away from the workbench occasionally. The rest of life can call urgently and needs to be answered. But even in the times when we are far from our hobby, we can still do something that will be ultimately profitable; we can think.

If you are away from home and hobby, grab a pencil and paper and list your next plans for a build. Is it to be in your favourite subject, or could you step away to a different genre? Can you obtain a model kit that will complement the ones you have already built in the same scale? Is there a diorama story in your collection already that just needs some small figures and a landscape to become reality?

Is there a better way of storing and displaying your models than you have now? Start researching viable commercial cabinetry. Start planning your own. Start thinking where the models will be housed. You’ll get far more done of a Saturday morning if you have a plan.

Is there a model you have never seen in the shops…but dearly want for your collection? How close is it to what is in the shops already? Is it close enough that a good session of scratch building will achieve it?

Is your workspace optimal ( answer: no…)? what do you need to make it better? Can you make what you need yourself? Do you have it in separate parts just waiting to come together? Can you throw out other people’s junk to make space for yours?

See? You haven’t touched a modelling knife but already you’re sharper. You had the pause that refreshes.