Category: Hobby Shops
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And Now The Shipping News
A number of chaps at my Men’s Shed morning are model ship builders – some exclusively and some as a relief from tanks or planes. I used to build boats – R/C ones as a young householder, and in my dim youth plastic ships as well. But so far not in old age. No real…
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SNCAN Martinet – Part One – A Siebel By Any Other Name
Christmas was coming to the hobby shop and it was time to choose my present. In this case before the actual day, so I got a fresh choice. The SNCAN Martinet was a Siebel 204 produced in France during the occupation and afterwards. It was used by the French air force and then sold on…
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Polish Tankette – Part One – A Gem Off The Shelf
This kit is the second venture I’m making in 1/35 scale – and this is a deliberate choice, rather than a chance purchase. The little Polish armoured car kit that I bought for a dollar proved to be so much fun to build that I determined to add more to the Stein’s Military World museum.…
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North American Bronco – A Quick Build
This North American OV-10 model has a rather chequered history – it was sold twice and gifted three times before it was built. It is just this report on my column because it was a quick build. It started life in Korea as an Academy model, made its way to Japan into someone’s stash, and…
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Either Shit Or Climb Off The Pot
Come with me to my local hobby shop – my happy place. Tool aisle, car aisle, kit aisles, paint aisle…as many wonderful aisles as one could want. In these post-viral days we are instructed to leave a metre and a half between us and other people while sometimes wearing a mask. I do this, and…
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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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PZL 37a Los – Part One – Heart In Hand…
Or mouth, as the case might be. I plucked this Mister Craft bomber off the hobby shop shelf as part of a Christmas present…wondering if I was going to get another dud. Mister Craft can mould some real curate’s eggs… In thus case I was not too dismayed by the sprue trees, but I did…
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Long Days Down T’ Bench
Or modelling until you can’t model any more. There are two types of long hobby days: a. The day that you just get to keep doing the thing you love, one bit after another. You finish one stage of the kit and are ready for the next one. Nothing breaks, nothing rolls off the bench,…
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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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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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