Category: Hobby Shops
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Stash Conquering
How to defeat the Box Monster. We all know about the Carpet Monster that eats parts from our model kits before we get a chance to break them. We all have ways of coping with this – mine is crawling about on my hands and knees and swearing. But what do we do when the…
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Sopwith Camel – Part Three – Decision Time
Decision time comes at many stages of a build – Shop, Shelf, Box, and Bench. For the desperadoes amongst us we can add the Screen. a. Shop. Which one to go to? The closest one? The one with the biggest range? The one who gets the newest kits in? The one with the best prices?…
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Grumman Goblin I – Part One – The New Appearance
I regularly cruise through Hobbytech in Myaree to see what’s new. Of course, no cruise is ever painless. I buy something every time. If it is not paint or a new tool, it is a kit of some sort. I am not complaining or bragging – just stating a fact of life. Like gravity or…
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Politically Incorrect Modelling
Model kit building can be a harmless hobby or a fiendish socio-political plot. It all depends on who is telling the story. In Australia we are currently out of favour with Communist China, and seem set to be castigated further as a pact between the UK, US, and Australia is established. As a side-show, the…
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PZL Gull Wing – Part One – One Christmas
I get to choose my own holiday presents. The best way to do this is to go to the shops, buy them, and hand them over to the people who plan to surprise me. They do surprise me too – when they reimburse me. This was one of 2020’s lot – a Mister Craft cheapie…
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Use the Dull Blade…
Said no modeller, ever. Yet we all do it. We use the blade until the tip breaks off and the edge has tram lines on it and we need to push it 300 times harder to get it to cut. And when it is just right; dull, nicked, and rusty, we push it over the…
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How Many, Oh Lord?
How many Messerschmitts can people buy? How many do they need? What are they doing with them? I asked this in grey desperation as I cruised the kit aisle of three of Perth’s hobby shops searching for cheap new models of interesting subjects. I saw kits from what must be two dozen various makers and…
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Smorgasbuilding
One of those, and one of those, and one of those… And you won’t build that sort again, because they’re icky. And there you are, in the aisle of the local HobbyHell Supastore looking for a small bottle of paint – or a large box of tank. And you see a rack full of packets…
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The Torture Rack
No, this isn’t a Hammer film. I’m talking about the paint racks down at the hobby shop. Horror in 10 ml bottles. The covid year and the shutdown of paint manufacture and shipping has certainly thinned out the racks. I hope it has not been too hard on the finances of the shopkeepers, and that…
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You Get What They Got
Or you just git. The internet is a wonderful place to see hobby kits and supplies that you cannot obtain. It is not the fault of the hobby shops – they would sell you scale kits of your grandparents if they were obtainable. They are in the unenviable position of not being able to get…
The Little World 