Category: Miniature Philosophy
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How Many Clubs Are The Right Number?
Well, if you are playing poker, 13. Any more gets you shot. How about social life? Can you belong to more than one club, and if so, is it beneficial? To take the first question…well, yes. Provided they are not mutually exclusive organisations – ones that bar additional membership – you can belong to as…
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Mining The Archives
Which is a good way of making sure no-one gets into them. Be sure to keep an accurate record of the placement of the charges in case you have to reopen them… Our club has a library and a magazine rack, and all the members are free to borrow the books and magazines on display.…
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Worrying Your Way To Better Models
Are your models good enough? Are you good enough? Have you had your daily hour of anxiety? We are constantly being told to stop stressing ourselves – advice that can really depress you. You no sooner sit down and let your jaw muscles sag than someone is leaping at you with a pill or a…
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Pure Colour
Means a pure, clean model with no moral deficiencies. You will be accepted into the company of saints. You may be able to use your halo as a building lamp. Or not, if you are one of those sort of people who just weather every surface in the house. There are advantages to using pure…
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Do The Kit Makers Set Traps?
Is your favourite scale model manufacturer playing with you? Have they moulded a practical joke in their latest offering? Are they laughing at you in the lunchroom? You may be forgiven for asking this unpleasant question if you have just opened a $ 250 kit that has three parts and a decal sheet made of…
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The Design Meeting At The Model Plant
They have them, I’m sure of it. All businesses have meetings, and they all stink. In the case of scale model moulding plants the most important decisions are taken at these meetings, and most of them are held just before lunch when everyone is too hungry to think straight, or just after lunch when they…
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The Miniature Mind
The psychology of scale modelling rarely makes it to the pages of academe. Few papers and fewer theses are presented about the little worlds of the modeller. Monogram brought out a 1:12 scale kit of someone writing a sociology paper but it never sold all that well. Be that as it may, there is a…
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Casting About For A Model
Is a die-cast airplane a model or a toy? It all depends upon the person holding it. One thing – it will never be a flying model – die-cast metal is not aerodynamic no matter how hard you throw it. It will sit on a stand or on its wheels and please the eye, but…
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We’re All Human
And all prone to error. So it is not fair to laugh at someone making a commercial mistake; especially when the sin carries its own punishment. The thing to be careful of is not being a party to the process. I saw a shop where a number of extremely small kits were being sold at…
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More Than One Tube Of Glue
You’re a big boy now… As a kid builder you only had one tube of cement. It was likely to be Revell or Pactra in North America and Humbrol in the UK or Australasia. You were expected to stick the Airfix or Monogram or Revell kit together with it. You were also expected to get…
