Category: frugality
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Sopwith Pup – Part One – Fresh In The Shop
Fresh from 1973, mind – courtesy of Airfix’s Vintage Classics range. This is fresh this week from the local shop, and at a price that seems laughably low. I have just this sense of humour, so I grabbed it and chortled my way to the till. The opening of the old-style box was not a…
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Swedish Hampden – Part Three – What Colour Is Swedish Green?
Go ask at IKEA… Or look carefully at the greens in your paint rack and note which ones can be poured together into a bottle and shaken up. This is a good opportunity to get the last few drops worth out of stuff that needs replacement anyway. A vigorous thinner will blend them all together…
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Swedish Hampden – Part One – An Excuse
A very good excuse… a. For a trip to the local hobby shop. b. To purchase a fresh Airfix ” Vintage Classic “. c. To use up the decals that I got with my first Hampden. d. To see if Airix have corrected the flaws of that first kit. I do not really expect (d.)…
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Do You Deserve Your Fate?
And if you don’t, but get it anyway, who is responsible? Every scale model kit that ever went into a box or bag was put there by people who hoped for something. They aspired to money, admiration, respect, or grudging acceptance. Like a marriage, really, but with sprue trees. Few of us got a decal…
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Thin Your Goo
No, that is not a euphemism for something disgusting. I mean thin your Sprue Goo for a better job. My two bottles of homemade Sprue Goo were getting pretty viscous over the months. I daresay every time the lid was unscrewed more of the solvent evaporated and the thicker the Goo got. It could be…
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Short Skyvan – Part One – Never Saw It Coming
Which is remarkably short-sighted of me – this thing is as wide as a house trailer. And as long and as high. In fact, if it had an oil stove and a porch you could take your muddy boots off in, you could park it in Peace River for the winter… Never before have I…
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Douglas Skyraider A-1H- Part One – Out Of The Mould
Literally – This gift kit has been sitting in a damp shed for long enough to develop a micro-climate… After the necessary box art photo, both halves of the box go into a plastic bag in the shed and will be heaved out as soon as the build is done. The rest of the parts…
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RAF Puma – Part Three – Old Faithful
The Colde Wellcombe helicopter hack. When you need to be moved from one miserable part of the country to another, you call out the Colde Wellcombe duty Puma. Bob and Ian are always ready to do their duty, as long as the mess is closed. You may wish to avoid calling them out on Saturday…
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RAF Puma – Part One – Vintage Helo
Another Airfix Vintage Classic on the shelf – don’t mind if I do… Yikes – Scalemates says this kit was first released in 1973 and has been steadily re-released with different artwork ever since. It is like a bus on a roundabout – just wait to get aboard until it next circles past… I am…
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Cheap Day Out
With all the burnt rubber you can want… If you are wondering where John France and I disappear to every second Wednesday – the times when we are not recording Little World Studio reels in the studio – come out to the observation positions at either Perth Airport or Jandakot Airport. With the wind from…
