Category: display
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Model Car Sunday – Part Six
Out past where the buses run… Or modelling to your own script. The art of doing what you darn well please and then having the courage to show it to others. It is not the path all would take, but then why keep to the footpath all your life, eh? The display at the MCS…
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Model Car Sunday – Part Three
Local Model Car Sunday…with vehicles that really do resonate with our city and state. Not to diss the hot rodders or race car builders, but there is also a world that is average, mundane, and historically real and it can reach out to the viewer as much as the candy apple paint job or the…
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Model Car Sunday – Part Two
Peopling the Dioramas. Model car enthusiasts are real people, and they recognise that other real people are interested in motor cars. Wherever there is a race, rally, show, or meeting there will be enthusiasts circulating amongst the cars. In some cases they are recognisable types. I can tell a hot rodder from a restorer of…
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Model Car Sunday – Part One
Actually it is called the Model Car Spectacular now but I remember it from a decade ago with the older name. Whichever you choose, it is a good value local model show on a wet Sunday. It’s an annual, and some of the exhibitors use the year fully to make new models. Themed, of course,…
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Making Water On The Workbench
And in cold weather, too… I needed a harbour with water – dry water – to display my float planes. No good just posing them on a glass shelf like dried cod – they needed to look like they were in their natural element. No time, and no inclination, to do the complex water-building that…
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Can You Instruct The World?
With your hobby? Will John Q. and Mary B. Public learn a valuable lesson observing your model airplane, toy train, or doll house?No, they will not. No matter how attractive your stand is nor how authentic your presentation, they will leave about as dumb as when they arrived. The best you can hope for is…
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Pride Of Place
The models displayed at my scale club are varied – aircraft, vehicles, ships, armour – even figures and Sci-Fi items. They are so very varied that there is no chance of making one-scale-only or one-theme-only cabinets – they jostle with each other for attention. But the attention they get is from dedicated model makers –…
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Not Every Good Idea…
Is good. Brains do burp occasionally… One of my episodes these last few months centred around building some 1/144 scale fighter planes – my Fifty Cent Fighters. The kits went together well and the painting was a lot of fun; a lot more successful than I expected. But one of my ideas for putting the…
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Is There A Permanent Museum Of Scale Modelling Anywhere?
I’ve been fortunate enough to see scale models of different things in military museums all over the world. I suppose there were a few in North America when I was a kid, but most of the ones I remember have been seen in Britain and on the continent. There are a few here in Australia,…
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The Aisle Of Nothing
Nothing new, nothing exciting, nothing doing. The saddest aisle in the hobby shop – yet you had so many good times here before. How can it be so dreary? Well, you’ve built most of the kits on the shelves, and it will be a few months before the next order from the wholesaler hits the…
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