Category: display
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What I Have Learned From Big Local Model Exhibitions.
I’ve checked my photo records and discovered that I’ve been looking at model exhibitions for some 50 years. In some circumstance as a participant – in others just a spectator, Whichever, I have learned valuable lessons: a. They are all worthwhile – even the manky little ones. There is always something new to see in…
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It’s All About The Show
At the show, that is. This fatuous philosophy may make my model displays better in the future. I’ve just seen a wake-up that tells me the viewers need more than what many modellers give them. My library dioramas – 300mm x 820 mm – are kept to that size by the display cabinet that protects…
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Imagination Vs Reality
How much of either powers your scale modelling? In my own case, less of the former in individual models but a great deal of it in major dioramas. I invent air forces and their air fields as settings for soi disant accurate models. Self deception at its finest. What of the model car makers? I…
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Model Car Spectacular 2023
I learned a lot yesterday when I attended a model car show. I probably knew it beforehand, but my mind had not bothered to assemble the various facts. Now I can look at the photo results and do some thinking. Firstly, let me say the clubs that did the exhibition worked all-out to make a…
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Multi-win Modelling
As odd as it may seem, there are people who consider it their duty to decide the amount of happiness allowed to others. You might see them in schools, military units, and workplaces. They also exist in the scale modelling world. You may have met them. You will certainly have if you paint your model…
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Your Fuss
Not mine. The recent introduction and passing of laws within Australia prohibiting display and sale of Nazi memorabilia and symbols may be a good thing – but not in the eyes of some scale modellers. They are already decrying it as a restriction upon their freedoms. I shall let them confront people who want to…
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RAF Wellington – Part Two – The Inside Job
I am starting to model in four dimensions. Outside for length, width, and height. Inside for detail. Of course the general viewers will never know what’s inside, but I will. I will treasure the vision of a jewelled interior telling intriguing stories. And I will have beaten the old Airfix/Revell/Aurora monster of the hollow fuselage.…
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Styrene Broker – Part One
Like a stock broker, but smelling of cement, not gin. A recent conversation with another modeller about yet a third hobbyist who is late, led to the question of what will be done with his accumulated scale model production. A great deal of it resides at his former hobby club, and is magnificent, but somewhat…
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The Royal Fly-Under
At the recent coronation of the British king we saw a fly-past by the RAF. Helicopters first, for some obscure reason, then the Red Arrows trailing multicoloured smoke, then a Royal anthem, and then nothing… The RAF may have been booked elsewhere for the day. At least the Royal Navy did them proud. As the…
The Little World 