Category: finances
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Mitsubishi Ann – Part One – Newcastle Day
As they sang in The Newcastle Song; ” Don’t you never let a chance go by, Lord Lord…”. And I didn’t. At the Tuesday Mens Shed modelling meeting a senior modeller ( I love saying that… ) came in with five roller boxes of model kits to sell. He is obviously clearing out a stash…
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The Joy Of Cheap Modelling
I often write paeans to frugality, now that I’m retired. No big stream of money coming in means you must cut your coat according to cheaper cloth – and use smaller bolts of it. Fortunately I am skinny so a little covers a lot. The plastic model hobby is also a field for care. I…
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Curtiss Hawk Model 75 – Part One – Good Fortune
I am blessed with good fortune; a loving family, a comfortable retirement, a mind that still feels enthusiasm. I am also blessed in friendships. One of these friends read my post about trading scale model cars to make space for scale model airplanes and stepped in to make the situation ever so much worse… In…
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If You Don’t Build It, Who Will?
The topic of the most expensive kit…or the rarest kit…or the best bargain kit…has been raised on the Flory forum recently and the team assessed their experiences with these categories. They have had access to far more than any of us, yet they speak about kits that seem somewhat pedestrian. It is most noticeable when…
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part One – The Promising Twin
I was ambushed by this kit through an email from a Melbourne hobby shop. They send out regular lists of new arrivals and this was in the same order as the Hawker Sea Fury. It also came with a companion Beech 18 – a USAAF AT-11. The cost of this kit is $19 and the…
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‘Tis A Gift To Be Simple…
And ’tis even a greater gift when the simplicity comes free…and at the proper time. I have no idea where the instrument seen in the heading image came from. It has been setting in the odd-tool drawer of my modelling cabinet for years. I suspect it came from an art supply store or was remaindered…
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Dudded? Or Clumsy?
Starting out on a kit that I bought from someone’s stash, I was gleefully contemplating the colour scheme when I noticed that there was no canopy for the aircraft. Had it been included in the kit and I lost it? Had it been missing and was overlooked at the time? Was I in possession of…
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Cheap and Cheerful
One of my friends has posted a picture on Facebook of an Airfix De Havilland Tiger Moth kit he’s building. He’s selected the RAF version in A/B camouflage and from the picture it looks delightful. He noted that it cost him $ 11 – and mentioned me as a cheap and cheerful modeller. Oh, if…
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Brewster Buccaneer – Part One – ” On The Sides Of Our Buccin’ Heads…”
The classic answer to the question of where are our Buccaneers… Now that we have that out of the way decorum can return. The Special Hobby 1:72 Brewster Buccaneer was the result of doing what I told myself I would not do; go to the Post -Christmas sales. To be fair, the sales came to…
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Why Did You Want To Build That One?
If someone looks at your newly-completed scale model and asks you that question, you can give a good, cogent answer. If you ask the question of yourself, you are in trouble. If you cannot come up with an answer…you’re sunk. Or are you? There are some things that you cannot see clearly – some things…
The Little World 