The Little World

I don’t mean in the sunshine – most plastic kits do badly when the temperature rises.

I mean in your home, workplace, club, or other places. Are you hiding your light under a bushel? Do you need to show off a little?

Once a year you can display in the WASMex show. Your audience will be other enthusiasts and they will be as sympathetic or as harsh as need be – depending upon how close a competitor you are in the contests. But that is two days out of 365. You need more.

I send images of mine out on the internet to some 600+ viewers and that is a help. Images do not collect dust or fall off a shelf. If I were to become more expert at marketing the thing might go world-wide, but to no monetary profit. I also show models at libraries on the odd occasion for the sake of finding fellow enthusiasts. On a good fortnight I might gather half a dozen at my studio for a scale modelling session.

However, there must be more that I and we could do. Admittedly the general public is rarely interested enough to treat scale modelling all that seriously, but the existence of the hobby shops shows there is a persistence through the community of something.