The Little World

When you open your refrigerator are you faced with shelves full of Tupperware containers? And in each one of them there’s a portion of something you ate earlier in the week? And none of the containers hold enough of anything for a feed?

What do you do? Why you tip everything into a fry pan, add some onions, and fire it up. With a little soy sauce and some black pepper you’ll end up with another good meal. Often it is a sum that is greater than the parts – the food’s had time to get better in the fridge.

The same goes for the model workshop. You have shelves full of 3/4 used rattle cans or pots of varnish. There are dubious mixed colours. There are jars of weathering washes that you daren’t brush on anything in case the weather turns really bad…

Cheer up. The Remnant Paint Company always succeeds. You just have to combine enough pots and something eventuates. If you need three coats of varnish it doesn’t really matter if they are three different nearly-dead cans. Just spray until the hiss stops and reach for the next one.

Occasionally you’ll ruin an expensive model and occasionally you won’t. It’s like a sort of scale model Lotto.

I am on the credit side as I’ve just used an old semi-gloss white rattler to finish an airliner. it has sprayed magnificently. And the dead last of a varnish can has covered the inkjet decals. Two more discard cans.