Category: Miniature Philosophy
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When Is Shoddy Workmanship Justified?
Never? Always? Something in between? Let us explore… The classic maxims about workmanship emphasize how you must always strive. ” Any job worth doing is worth doing well “.” A poor workman blames his tools “. ” Go west, young man “…and so forth. Stirring stuff. Makes you long for a moral Mixmaster. It has…
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When Does A Workshop Qualify For A Federal Grant?
Possibly when it becomes world-famous or when a member of Parliament takes up a hobby. The reporters will flock and the money roll in. I have no intention of entering Parliament, but I still hold out hopes of fame. I have engaged a make-up artist and a dance coach to get me ready for the…
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Pride Is A Cheap Emotion
Well it is, if you do it right. Scale modelling can be done with pretty nearly any purse…though the hobby shops would like you to browse on the expensive shelves. The prices can rise to pretty nearly any level that you could name. People who purchase and build the expensive kits can generally be assured…
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The Stash Sale Guide
Or how to do yourself either a lot of good or a serious injury… Stash sales are going on all the time – people decide to thin their collection of unbuilt kits for many reasons. Some need the money – some need the space – some need relief from the pressure of family expectations. Or…
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Is it Puttering Or Pottering?
I mean the faffing about that you do in between builds. The tidying up of the workshop and the sharpening of tools. The filling of thinner bottles and the tossing out of dried-up paint. The time when you blow down the air compressor tank and then have to wash the floor. When you vacuum up…
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Better Is The Enemy Of Good
Just as happier is the enemy of happy. Once you introduce comparison you have picked a rotten apple off the tree and are headed out of Eden. Because you have discovered that there is something you don’t have and that something is MORE. Were you happy with your food, you would not be hungry for…
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Will You Take Soup?
I note from a website that there will be a number of categories of competition in our Big Local Scale Model Exhibition 67 in fact. These are major divisions and subdivisions therefrom. No-one need feel unwelcome, and there is a good chance that they will go home with a prize. Who could complain? Well, not…
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Change? CHANGE?
We don’ need no esteenkin’ change! Or badges…Those of you old enough can tell me where that line comes from. But it applies as surely to scale modelling as to making drinks before dinner. The heading image was shared over three weblog columns; this one, Here All Week, and The Frontier And Colonial Photographic Establishment.…
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Dornier Do 27 – Part Three – Why Go To All That Trouble?
Why go to all the trouble of detailing the inside of a 1/72 scale model aircraft? a. When you are going to have the windows closed? And possibly obscured by the sort of crazing and hazing that desert storage conditions bring about? See Davis-Monthan or Hatzerim photos for this reference. b. When the parts are…
