The Little World

If you don’t buy something you don’t need.

If you buy something that you don’t want, it ratchets up to a higher level. If it is overpriced, you are moving into the professional league.

If you buy aftermarket for it, and build it, you have become a master in the art of Zen modelling. The act for the sake of the act, and don’t you act like that to me, young man! I’ll zen you…

A top-notch stash sale sells good models at low prices and every one of them has clean decals and the canopies still wrapped in plastic bags.

Matters go downhill from there in stages until you reach the car park markets’ cardboard boxes with broken bits piled in where you pay a dollar to grab as much as you can in one hand.

The important point about stash sales is they are not compulsory in law – either for buyers or sellers. One need not empty the hall cupboard – even if the wife tells you to – and one need not buy 15 part-built Spitfires that have adhered to each other due to hot weather and a broken cement tube.

Good sense can prevail.

But it won’t.