Category: finances
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What Did I Fear?
Notice the difference between yesterday’s title and today’s? That’s because today contains the answer to the problem. Let me start out by telling you that as a child I was terrified of skeletons. I’d seen a Walt Disney cartoon of them leaping toward the viewer and couldn’t face the idea for 15 years after that.…
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What’s In It For Me?
That is the sort of question that makes us sound greedy…when we ask it in the wrong circumstances. Yet it really is apposite in some modelling affairs. We can ask it of ourselves when we look at a new kit on the hobby shop shelf. The box art may be fantastic and the reports from…
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All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm
An’ de ones dat build model kits knows dey better pay attention to de beat. Else’n dey gonna be trowin’ dere kits agin’ de wall… I am rich in time, if not in cash, and know that I can best use this first resource in my scale model building if I apportion it wisely. And…
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Of Course It Doesn’t Fit
It never fit in 1959, when the kit was released. It didn’t fit in 1989 when Revell bought the mould and re-issued it. It will not fit when someone east of the Urals finally gets the worn-out blocks and injects reindeer poo into them to claw back some rubles. It’s not about fit. It’s about…
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When To Call It A Day
And when to call it a week…that point at which you decide to either finish the model or cut your throat. This is not as foolish a thought as first may seem. There will be more accessories and additions to the kit that you bought than you’ll have on hand. Scalemates shows 4 different mask…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part One – The Pencil Again
I seem fated to build Dornier Do-17 bombers. I have already completed one for the Ruritanians, and one for the Swiss. Now a third kit has turned up and is slated to be sent to the Finns. The kit is a multiple re-boxing – mine popped out in 2011 but the original mould started in…
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” Recapture Your Childhood “
Said an advertisement for a reissue of an old kit. I opened the box and looked in… My childhood was moulded better than that – and it was made in the same mould. I might have aged a lot and some of my edges have become worn, but I have avoided sinkholes in every corner…
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Do Not Build
A useful list of things not to do in the scale model hobby… a. Do not build tired. Too late at night spoils paint jobs. b. Do not build drunk. One more little one can’t hurt you, but five more can. Hobby knives can cut flesh as easily as styrene. c. Do not build angry.…
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Christmas And Birthday All Year Round
Remember Christmas as a kid? Remember your birthday? Remember the present in the wrapping paper that looked suspiciously like a model kit – and the final minutes of anticipation before you got to it and unwrapped it? Be honest with yourself…if it WAS a model kit when the paper came off, you were thrilled. It…
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The Barnacle
AKA the shelf queen. The styrene albatross. The kit that has sat on the hobby shop shelf ever since the place opened. The Unsold Undead… It may be worse than this. There are items in stock in many retailers that have been delivered from other shops that have previously failed; I saw it several times…
The Little World 