The Little World

And you don’t…

You’re either a Puritan or from Perth. Puritans didn’t see the point of the jokes and Perth people don’t see the new kits on the shelves.

You may be as overjoyed as you wish about the release of a new scale model kit – I was about the the July promise of an new/old Airfix kit – but the fact that the entire planet will have them on the shelves means nothing here. We may eventually get a small consignment, but it will be after everyone else has had theirs. They will have built them, displayed them, and knocked them off the mantle piece before we get a sniff.

The only saving grace with this is at the other end of the timeline. Things that have disappeared for decades will fetch up on local shelves as new stock. This is wonderful – though the fact that the decal sheets have generally taken on the appearance of potato crisps is a slight setback.

All the better for the aftermarket decal market after.