The Little World

I have a hobby room that has accommodated any number of pursuits – yet I am still chasing perfection. And it is still elusive.

The first use of the hobby room – the 5th bedroom in a house that has only three sleepers – was as a photographic darkroom. It was the days of film and printing, and I managed to light-proof it with a shutter and painted windows. I installed a sink with running water to operate processing machines and it all worked well.

Then it became a recording studio when I worked with tape recorders.

Then a firearms collection room when I shot muzzle-loaders.

Lately it has become a computer room and also houses a bench for indoor plastic modelling. It contains a hifi set and an air conditioner and adequate bookshelves…yet I am not satisfied.

When cold or hot weather – or rain – sets in I cannot go out to the shed and use my air brush. The indoor room has no way to ventilate the spray booth. During my Covid isolation week I was stuck inside…

Which is nothing but a childish complaint when you consider the fact that I used to build plastic models on a kitchen table in a house trailer during Canadian winter. And I was perfectly happy with the results, though I was banned from spraying Testors rattle cans inside the trailer. I couldn’t afford many of them anyway…

We always want more, and if we are unfortunate, we get it.