Category: damage control
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A Different Bird
Oh, what a load of tales circle about the Plague Doctor’s costume. You can Wiki them yourself – I did and was immediately suspicious of the stories and supposed history. So many illustrations and rumours from the middle ages and renaissance eras have taken on lives of their own that I take many of them…
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Say What You Will About the Design
And debate as much as you like how well it might have done against a Tiger I… I still want one – as the shopping vehicle for my local IGA car park. The bays in the centre have been painted on the asphalt in such a way as to get the most cars – and…
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” I’m Just Going To Buy A Paintbrush “
I won’t be in the hobby shop long. I won’t look at any new kits. Or tools. Or range of paints. Or die-cast models. I won’t spend much money. I don’t really need anything. I’ll only browse. Just window shopping. Home in fifteen minutes. You’ll never guess what happened…
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A Seller’s Guide To Secondhand Kit Sales
Your key to financial security in styrene. If you would contemplate your fortune in relation to the sale of secondhand model kits, remember that you can turn a small one into a large one or a large one into a small one across the same table. If you acquire a stock of model kits that…
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If The Light Is Lousy
Shoot in black and white. This advice applies for most realistic shots of the early twentieth century. Most were taken with monochrome film or plates and appear in our consciousness as such. Now, of course, AI and ambition colourise the older photos and we get a better idea of what things might really have looked…
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The Puppy And The Old Dog
Makes you nostalgic, eh? We start with such high hopes and so much precision. then we encounter The Kit From Hell and the bottle of nuclear waste thinner and it all goes wrong. As the years go by the mat gets punished for our sins but the models get better. We watch as markings disappear…
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One From My Childhood
Few people these days ride Stegosauruses. When I was young I frequently got to slide down the back of the Stegosaurus in Calgary zoo – an area of Western Canada famed for prehistoric wildlife. I never had the nerve to try to climb the Brontosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex was kept behind a fence. However,…
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While They Welcome Constructive Criticism…
Please do not shoot the committee. No matter what the organisers of anything do, there will be critics. Even if an event goes perfectly – with no hitches at all – someone will complain that it could have been bigger, better, cheaper, or raspberry-flavoured. If the weather, traffic, or crowds present a problem, the critics…
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Priorities
Many thanks to the modeller who prepared this little moral vignette for the competition table. It serves as a timely reminder to us all that in the midst of turmoil, we should look to the important things first. Like the business of getting our models to the show. I packed mine in individual boxes with…
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Tunnel Of Love
And who could resist… I know I wasn’t supposed to lean over the table to take the picture – for a very good reason. All the models under me were in danger. This was the case on my own table out in the main hall – the inability of the public to look at anything…
The Little World 