The Little World

Good days and bad days. Scale modelling has them both.

How do you increase the number of the former while avoiding the latter? By exercising patience and good sense. Or by winning the Lotto and going stark mad. I cannot advise you which alternative to take, but if you choose the first, consider:

A good day is when you get a new model kit. If it is at a reasonable price, it is a very good day.

While it is a’building, a good day will include no parts flying off the sprue and lodging in the carpet. Parts will fit where the plans specify, there will be no seams, and paint coats will go on smoothly and dry with no blemishes. The decals will not silver and the clear parts will not fog.

You may take the exact reverse for bad days, and welcome. I avoid them by the business of patience. It was not always thus when I commenced my modelling. Speed was the essence of the thing and heavy coats of paint the order of the day. The results showed it, and good days were rare. So I slowed down, sprayed lighter, and let things alone for hours and days.

Gradually the calendar grew brighter. Models were finished slowly and with fewer flaws. Less money was wasted. Purpose returned to a disordered workshop.