Category: Dioramas
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Genug
A wonderful display… I was particularly impressed at the WASMex 2026 with a display of German military models at the side of the hall. These were in the regular section – not the competition. I believe they were brought in from some distance and I can admire the modeller’s enthusiasm and completeness. Rumour had it…
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RAF Puma – Part One – Vintage Helo
Another Airfix Vintage Classic on the shelf – don’t mind if I do… Yikes – Scalemates says this kit was first released in 1973 and has been steadily re-released with different artwork ever since. It is like a bus on a roundabout – just wait to get aboard until it next circles past… I am…
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Canadian Dandruff
Or how to freeze your enthusiasm… At some stage of the game every scale modeller thinks it would be ” cool ” to make a snow scene. The big film studios have been doing it for years – some with great effect. Nothing says Eastern Front like a half-track with the crew starting a fire…
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Going To The Show
The hard way. The annual scale model show at Cannington Showgrounds is a good time to be had by all, but it has a number of not-so-good times within its weekend. Some of these revolve around trying to get models there for display, park while delivering, park while exhibiting, and reversing the process at the…
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What’s A Success In Scale Modelling?
Depends – and on a number of factors. Firstly there’s the modeller. Some are dedicated, some are casual. For some it is a hobby – for others, real life. The intense modeller may set higher goals for themselves than the person who treats it lightly. Then there’s the intent. If someone sets out to tell…
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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…
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Dealing With Famous People
Sometimes we go through life without ever meeting anyone famous. Of course we may have waved to Fat Cat or HM the Queen when they swept by in a public procession, but that only counts if they waved back or threw a rock at us. But we can meet many famous people in our scale…
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Wee, The People
If you wait long enough… The PDMC car layout is often recognisable at model exhibitions – it has model cars in it. It also has litle people, which count for a great deal of the pulling power it has with crowds. You cannot stand around all day and drink coffee and not pay the price.…
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Down At the Docks
A lesson in maintenance. I look at the top of my model of the Spitfire – the one I made last year. See how it has become slightly duller? Is that progressive camouflage? No, it is dust, cat hair, lint, ashes, and fingerprints. And that in one year… The paper model of the German harbour…
