The Little World

If you have not experienced an adolescence of any sort yet, you may wish to loosen your clothing and put down newspapers over the good flooring…

Scale modellers pass through adolescence any number of times. There’s the original one that breaks the voice and soils the sheets, and that’s a lot of fun. There’s the anti-adolescence when we reject the idea of having fun making models and concentrate on the THINGS THAT MATTER.

After we find out they don’t matter, we can get back to the workbench. And we then learn to scratch-build, airbrush, build brass photo-etch, and argue with idiots about the correct shade of green.

It is all good, with the possible exception of the idiots – but if we ignore them we can come out upon a broad plain of satisfaction. We will learn things we never knew before, and how to do stuff that was too hard for years. And we’ll be able to afford the kits that no-one would ever buy for us.

And best of all – no pimples. Liver spots, skin cancers, and perpetual bruising…but nothing to spoil a date.