The Little World

Possibly when it becomes world-famous or when a member of Parliament takes up a hobby. The reporters will flock and the money roll in.

I have no intention of entering Parliament, but I still hold out hopes of fame. I have engaged a make-up artist and a dance coach to get me ready for the spotlight. And I have a packet of 1/35 scale spotlights nearly completed.

Workshops are personal spaces at their best or worst. Some modellers work in surgically sterile areas that are organised to the last centimetre. Others wallow, and the floor of the space is an ever-deepening pit of lost parts and old instruction sheets. It is hard to say which approach produces more models or more angst.

My spaces are comfortable in some seasons and reasonably organised, but I cannot say that they are efficient spaces nor that they are aesthetic in themselves. Suffice it to say that they can produce a model to a certain standard in a certain time, and I must be content with that. There are few automated features are most of these are more trouble to use than the hand tools.

I make no pretence of morality or art in this. If I did I’d ask for money.