The Little World

The centre of the target is not interesting – a direct contrast to rifle shooting.

When you buy a model, or are fortunate to receive one as a gift, you are either going to chop out a lot of money or very little at all. Oddly, most modellers don’t notice either sum.

The large expensive kit with full after-market packs engages your fierce determination to make sure that you get value for money. You build it down to the maddeningly minute details, cursing the factory all the time. It will generally take you far longer to complete than anything else.

The tiny cheap kit will also fire you up all out of proportion to its expense. It may be crude and simple, but you research it far more carefully and devise ways ti detail it without spending anything at all. The scrap box, plastic sheet, and sewing basket are all raided in turn. Your pride on completion is sometimes far greater than that when you finish the big box.

You also tend to brag more about it – and people will lock themselves in the loo just to avoid hearing you yet again.

Take heart – they cannot stay in there forever…