Category: Miniature Philosophy
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
I have been thinking about the Big Local Model Show that will be coming at the end of April. It excites me but I’m a little nervous. It’s the question of whether it will get a chance to go ahead as planned. The rise of the new Omicron strain of the Wuhan Virus has frightened…
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Do Dollhouse Ladies Have Failures?
I don’t know. Do they ever grasp their latest Victorian parlour settee model and fling it against the wall? Is there a flood of unparliamentary language? Perhaps – they are human after all. I sympathise, and do not wish them endless failure. But I do wish them a bit of it – and I hope…
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Waitin’ To Paint
Doesn’t it seem that you spend 80% of your time on Earth waiting? As a kid you spend time waiting to grow up and as you do you spend hours in queues, traffic, and meetings. When you are at home you spend time waiting for family members to be ready to go out. When you’re…
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North American F-100 – Part Two – Even The Little Bits Are Nice
The long slog of a kit build always seems to start with a cockpit. And some are slower starters than others. I particularly dread the PE and resin confections that the Czech small run makers mould up. They sometimes look good when completed but nearly always are an indefinite Tinker Toy as you try to…
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” It Looks Like A Die Cast “
A well-known contributor to a modelling You Tube site has often remarked that painting a model without weathering it extensively makes it look like a die cast. I think he’s right and I’m ever so grateful to him for the hint. I still do weather some models lightly, but knowing that they will look good…
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It Do You Good
To look at reality every so often. Be careful if reality wants to look at you… As model builders we are engaged in reducing reality to a small space full of small objects. We get very good at this with our kits, aftermarket parts, paints, and weathering. We construct imaginative dioramas and sets. We focus…
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I Believe In You
Of course, I also believe in pixies and the Lone Ranger, so take that into account. You may want to put a disclaimer on most of this conversation. Verbal advice in scale modelling is generally worth the paper it’s not printed on. It can be had from shopkeepers trying to sell you something, friends trying…
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Your Hobby Costs HOW Much?
This is the way someone asks how much your hobby costs when they want to belittle it. No matter what answer you give, they will scoff at you. In truth, they don’t want a number as an answer – they just want to fix you while they prepare their next snort. If you like being…
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Lockdown Modelling
Put aside your politics, folks. I’m concerned with the practicalities of scale modelling when they call a lockdown in your area. If you’re at home to stay for a period of time, your best friends are not the TV or the cocktail cabinet. They are your library and your modelling stash. And possibly your computer,…
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One Tool To Rule Them All
And that is all I intend to borrow from Tolkien. I saw the movies years ago and that was all I needed. But the real topic here is that one tool. You know the one. The one that is there in your tool kit. It’s the one you had when you started model building. The…
The Little World 