The Little World

Some of us are good at one thing – some at another. But the infuriating sorts are good at everything.

One of the new chaps at my studio club brought along some figures he’s painted for a diorama. They are done very well, which is one point, but they are also printed from 3D files on his own printer at home. This is altogether too competent.

If I learn he has started to mould his own kits I will round on him with a meat hammer and put a stop to it. There is only so much success you can let other people have before they become a danger to navigation.

I think there may be more in the populace. This last week I saw a man lay out a fuselage for a small biplane on a foam board – setting the stringers and frames onto it with pins and balsa cement. It was disturbingly nostalgic and precise. I suspect him of trying to make a flying model as if it was 1956.

And the railway enthusiasts with their plaster scenery. Are they trying to make the rest of us feel inadequate? Because they do…