The Little World

Quietly ask yourself a few questions:

a. Is it beyond saving for? You may have some some change each week that can be put toward the kit, and many sellers will lay something buy on steady payments.

b. Is it the only possible model of this prototype? Granted, you’ll not find many kits of Fandiddler KU-34 underwater biplanes, and the $ 500 1/72 model made in a carport in Ecuador may be the only one ever offered…but if you fancy a HOOD or BISMARCK you are pretty sure to find something in the less expensive range.

Then it is up to your skill to detail it.

c. Is the shop having an expensive lend of you? Are there alternative businesses that sell the thing cheaper?

d. Can you get plans for the model and build it from scratch? Many things look impossible when we are just blinkered into opening kit boxes and cutting sprue trees. You can probably scratch-build better than you think.

e. Are you just succumbing to big-kit-envy? Do you want it because you want it or because someone else has it?

f. What will you sacrifice to build the kit? A week’s wage? A month’s food? Electricity for the house?