Category: Miniature Philosophy
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Who Did It Best?
At today’s scale model exhibition I noted the same model on two different tables – one for pure display and one for competition. They were both renditions of a 1:24th Landrover by Italeri and both finished superbly. I would be proud of either of them – t’were other dear charmer away… I was pleased to…
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Always Help Out At The Exhibition
Anything you can do to assist the smooth running of he scale model exhibition is a good thing. It could be as simple as making sure the cars are parked far away from the venue as possible. Or demanding money with menaces at the door. Even if all you do is stand and glare at…
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All Kit Builders Should Build Something From Scratch
All scratch-builders should build a model from a kit. It is no good looking at someone else’s take on the scale model hobby and pooh poohing it. Or wondering whether they have it better than you. Or wondering whether you could ever do it… Wise experimenters do it simple at first. The long-time kit builder…
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Why’d You Build A Model Of THAT?
There are many paths, Grasshopper… a. It was the plane my father flew in the Battle of Britain. He was on the Finnish side. They shot at EVERYBODY. Little Helsinki on the Avon was a hotbed of aerial warfare. b. I had the money and the shop owner seduced me…by putting the kit on the…
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Canada Geese
In Autumn, you can hear them in the sky as they fly south: ” Honk, Honk, Honk “. In Spring you hear them flying north. ” Eh, Eh, Eh…” You sportsmen and sporting gals get to gun them down on the journey south but the Mounties’ll arrest you if you do the same on their…
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The Richest Kid On The Block!
Possibly in the whole town! I’ve got 27 model kits ready to build. They came from friends, family and pocket money. I’ve got enough cement for all of them, and enough paint. School is out, and has been since 1972. Employment is done, and has been since 2016. I do not have any homework due.…
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Do Other Hobbies Suffer From Being At The End Of The World?
Or is it just scale kit building? We all go regularly to the hobby shops or websites looking for novelties. We regularly come back disappointed. Meanwhile the net and the magazines show a wonderful variety of goods available to people in Europe, Asia, and North America. We are left outside on the footpath with our…
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A Kit Too Far
If you are observant at stash sales you can tell which models will be coming onto the table at a good price. Not initially, perhaps – we have all seen the ambitious price tag on a scale box. Sometimes it is high enough to over-run new kits currently available in the shops. This can be…
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You Cannot Educate The Ignorant
Not with a scale model – so don’t set yourself up for disappointment. The public display of scale models of any kind is best done to other enthusiasts. They will be critical of your work, but generally sympathetic enough to see what you are trying to show. Joe Soap who just slings along with nothing…
