The Little World

For the most part…don’t.

Spend a good deal of your modelling time trying to locate it and when you find an entry point, crawl right in and close the hatch after yourself.

Your ancestors lived largely outside comfort zones, as it happened, and spent a lot of time trying to locate them. They worked and suffered so that their offspring would have a better chance of happiness, and it would be a slap in the ancestral faces to reject it once you have it.

How to find a comfort zone:

a. Select a type of modelling you have always enjoyed.

b. Pick a scale – in particular pick on that can be supplied easily, locally, and cheaply.

c. Gather tools about you that you know how to use and that are in good repair. You need not model with a butter knife, unless your material of choice is Western Star unsalted.

d. Pick a paint system that you can manage. Sacrifice a kit or two and several bottles of the competing types until you find what works well. Toss the others out the window or to another club member, and concentrate on the one you are getting good with.

When it comes to paints, the grass may or may not be greener on the other side, but the club anorak will still loom over you and tell you it is the wrong green…

e. Build what you can afford. Do not be swayed by the fabulous bargains and wonderfully high prices that everyone else seems to deal in. Some are richer than you, some have better contacts, and some are just lying to make themselves feel good.

f. Brag about your successes and moan about your failures… to yourself in the bathroom. Smile all the while when you are modelling at the club. Eventually it will seem natural.