Category: Miniature Philosophy
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Spirited Modelling
And there are all sorts of spirits… a. The generous spirit. Thess modellers make friends with all their club mates and anyone met at shows. They give away models and accessories to help other people. They appreciate other people’s efforts. They contribute to club affairs. b. The mean spirit. They keep what they know to…
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What’s A Success In Scale Modelling?
Depends – and on a number of factors. Firstly there’s the modeller. Some are dedicated, some are casual. For some it is a hobby – for others, real life. The intense modeller may set higher goals for themselves than the person who treats it lightly. Then there’s the intent. If someone sets out to tell…
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A Different Bird
Oh, what a load of tales circle about the Plague Doctor’s costume. You can Wiki them yourself – I did and was immediately suspicious of the stories and supposed history. So many illustrations and rumours from the middle ages and renaissance eras have taken on lives of their own that I take many of them…
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The Bird
In this case, I believe, a Puffin. I was delighted to see that someone entered a model of this bird in the WASMex competition this year. A recent video we made mentioned the kits that were once produced of North American songbirds and asked where they had got to. Perhaps the idea has never gone…
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” I’m Just Going To Buy A Paintbrush “
I won’t be in the hobby shop long. I won’t look at any new kits. Or tools. Or range of paints. Or die-cast models. I won’t spend much money. I don’t really need anything. I’ll only browse. Just window shopping. Home in fifteen minutes. You’ll never guess what happened…
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A Seller’s Guide To Secondhand Kit Sales
Your key to financial security in styrene. If you would contemplate your fortune in relation to the sale of secondhand model kits, remember that you can turn a small one into a large one or a large one into a small one across the same table. If you acquire a stock of model kits that…
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The Puppy And The Old Dog
Makes you nostalgic, eh? We start with such high hopes and so much precision. then we encounter The Kit From Hell and the bottle of nuclear waste thinner and it all goes wrong. As the years go by the mat gets punished for our sins but the models get better. We watch as markings disappear…
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While They Welcome Constructive Criticism…
Please do not shoot the committee. No matter what the organisers of anything do, there will be critics. Even if an event goes perfectly – with no hitches at all – someone will complain that it could have been bigger, better, cheaper, or raspberry-flavoured. If the weather, traffic, or crowds present a problem, the critics…
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Priorities
Many thanks to the modeller who prepared this little moral vignette for the competition table. It serves as a timely reminder to us all that in the midst of turmoil, we should look to the important things first. Like the business of getting our models to the show. I packed mine in individual boxes with…
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Tunnel Of Love
And who could resist… I know I wasn’t supposed to lean over the table to take the picture – for a very good reason. All the models under me were in danger. This was the case on my own table out in the main hall – the inability of the public to look at anything…
