The Little World

If you have not done these yet, you will…

a. Cut yourself severely with your modelling knife. You will bleed profusely, and probably onto your decal sheet. The bit you cut will be the digit you use for most delicate and detailed work, and you will be bandaged for a month.

If you manage to do the deed with a plastic ruler or a sanding block you are very special indeed.

b. Glue yourself to the workbench or tabletop. Most people will do this by setting their arm down in a pool of cyanoacrylate cement, but really special people can do it with PVA. It takes them a lot longer to adhere to the woodwork, but makes a nice surprise when they wake up.

c. Ruin a garment – with paint, thinner, cement, or some other solution. Extra points if it is formal evening wear and a gold star if it is someone else’s clothing.

d. Lose a part that is absolutely essential to the model. It will vanish in an instant, never to be found again. It’s your punishment for sin.

e. Buy a kit that is so bad that you are ashamed of yourself.

f. Leave your best paintbrush bristle-down in a jar of thinner that subsequently evaporates, leaving you with a brush that paints at 90 degrees.

g. Leave your airbrush uncleaned for two days and return to a solid mass. Then spend another two days cleaning it.

h, Drop your model on a concrete floor just as it is completed with all the guns and antennae out. It will land on them.

i. Have someone mock you at a party for your hobby. Make no reply whatsoever. Your skills are your own.