The Little World

You can experiment with all sorts of things; materials, processes, ideas, and weird food.

The last-named aside, the others are often a help in scale modelling. We get set in our ways and sometimes it is in Carbonite like Han Solo. We need to explore new things.

For a couple of years I followed the scheme of parallel building. I spread my modelling time between two clubs and my home workshop – with daily, weekly, and fortnightly sessions. I dedicated each location to a different scale model kit, working on it and then shelving it for the next one at the next occasion. Some kits took weeks and some took months to complete.

It had the good effect of leaving plenty of setting and curing time between stages in a build. But there were occasions that saw parts go missing and there was always the searching for paints and re-packing of kit between the venues. For weeks nothing would happen than in a few days three models would go up on the shelves.

Time to try serial building…one kit at a time – like I did when I was a kid. ( Never had more than two kits at any one time then. )

So for the last month it has been one after another and they have gone surprisingly well. All the paints needed are brigaded up into a packet with the kit box. They go to the clubs and come home, but they are all there when needed. The kits seem more rational when the mind is concentrating on them. Overnight drying and setting still applies but there are few real hold-ups.

A kit in point is the Aichi Grace. The result you see was a Saturday start through to Tuesday evening photos. Some Sprue Goo on for tomorrow and a few sub-assemblies painted on the sprue trees. The wonderful thing about some Japanese aircraft is that interior colour.

This serial thing has the advantage of quick reward. We teenagers are into that sort of thing.