Category: Collecting
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How Many Long Distance Runners Appreciate What They Are Doing?
And how many scale modellers do, either. The person who sits, day after day, completing tank tracks, or gluing branches on tiny pine trees, or copper plating the bottom of a wooden vessel will probably not say that they are having a whale of a time…unless the model ship is the PEAQUOD, and in that…
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What Story Does Your Model Collection Tell?
If it is only one model, it says that you are just getting started – and that it is lonely for companionship. Time to go out and buy another kit. This is when you start to have a voice in the narrative. If you buy another model kit in the same scale, but of a…
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Buying Your Own Birthday Gifts
And being reimbursed the cost – then presented with the ” surprise ” boxes on the day – is one of the most satisfying forms of gift giving/getting there is. It doesn’t do to be petty about it, or get bashful. Ask directly how much the giver wishes to spend and then go spend it.…
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If You Must Trash Your Models
Sadly, scale models do not often last…they may be gone when their builder goes. Few people appreciate the hobby enough to keep all of a collection. Of course this doesn’t include historic models such as those found in Greenwich Maritime Museum or other institutions. But plastic models in a lounge room? Little chance. Before this…
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Never Throw Nuthin’ Away
You might very well love it some day. The formation flying team you see started life as four out-of-scale plastic toy fighters that were packaged with Plasticville airport buildings. Made in the mid-1950’s these structures populated thousands of O-guage and S-guage toy train layouts in North America. The lettering and insignia on the planesare in…
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Shelving Your Worries
Or worrying your shelves. Some people are like that… I am currently shelving, boxing, and arranging my scale model collection and discovering why museum staff have a certain look on their faces: that of murderous Tetris players. Every museum worth it’s salt – and that includes private collections – has simultaneously more than it should…
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Hannover CL III A – Part Three – Auferstehung
And not a zombie, either – a good-looking model for the collection. The Hannover CL IIIA was apparently a success. It could function as an observation or ground attack aircraft and a number of them were successful as fighters when newcomers on the Allied side pulled up behind one, thinking it was a single-seater. The…
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Make Your Own Museum
Make your own display. Please yourself how you do it, but take some time and effort with the presentation…even if it is only for yourself. You will be rewarded: a. If your collection of scale models tells a story. The library aspect b. If your collection is a delight to the eye. The art gallery…
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You Are Not Your Collection
Which is a good thing. If you were, we’d have to dust you. I once visited a club that concerned itself with collecting die cast models and toys. The people in it were keen in their pursuits and many had amassed quite large collections. They had many models and had spent a good deal of…
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