Category: Dioramas
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Gluttony With Extra Sauce…Sin Two
It’s hard to be a classic glutton when you are trying to make a Little World. Food costs money – money that could be better spent on model kits, strip wood, and dollhouse furniture. Every triple-layer Massiveburger with extra cheese means a pot of paint foregone. A good night out with extra chips costs the…
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Anger Management, Damn It…Sin One
Funny that – the business of selling anger management courses…It’s all the rage these days in the Big World, though perhaps the word ‘ rage ‘ is a bad choice. Still, everywhere you look people are being urged to bottle up, calm down, chill out, and back down – at the same time that the…
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Get Down!
Relax – it’s not the dog on the table again. This post is about getting down to your models when you are trying to photograph them. The first photograph I ever took of a scale model was of a Revell 105mm howitzer in about 1:40 scale. I’d saved up for it, sent away to a…
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Leave Us Not
Leave us not get the impression that The Little World is only airplanes – it is far more, as the ever-growing storage racks at my studio will attest. There are cars, trains, planes, houses, shops, caravans, and dinosaurs. Also stage sets, movie studios, horses, porcelain dogs, and a resident gecko that lays eggs. The heading…
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All Aboard!
The business of scale model photography needs only a few basic components; light, a camera, and a scale model. Everything else is just commentary. But what commentary…As you’ll observe in the heading image, there are models sourced from eight different makers or genres. There are three different scales seen – and three layers of image…
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