Category: Miniature Philosophy
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Are You Cutting Edge?
Well keep away from your fingers, then… Being the most advanced modeller in your circle is a wonderful ambition, but then so is being a successful train robber. I believe Jesse James used to build nice 1:16 scale stagecoaches… In our club there are also nice stage coach builders, as well as boat, ship, and…
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Please, God, Let It Be The Soda
A cartoon from my youth showed a man on the street outside a liquor store holding two paper bags. The bottom of one had given away and a bottle fallen out – smashed on the footpath. The chap had his eyes to heaven and the caption read ” Please, God, let it be the soda…”.…
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Wait For It…Wait For It…
The state government in Victoria has just announced that it will introduce legislation in 2022 to ban the public display of Nazi symbols in public. This sort of legislation exists in Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraina, and France and has existed for quite some time. Exceptions seem to occur for museums or other institutions but the…
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Morane-Saulnier N – Part Two – Simplicity In Silver
The Revell ( NZ ) model of the Morane-Saulnier N monoplane is the aviation equivalent of the spoiled vehicle kit it replaced – so simple in construction as to admit of assembly before painting. The pilot – Dimitri – has been painted separately and can rest in the shade while the rest of the build…
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Morane-Saulnier N – Part One – Off The Horse, On The Horse
I had fallen off the horse. A model that was proceeding well became bogged down with a bad paint choice and nasty wash job – incompatible chemistry. Efforts to rectify it made it worse – parts were bent, then broken. It looked appalling, and I knew that every time I saw the finished product it…
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Perverse Hopes
Relax. This is Safe For Work. If they have accepted the fact that you build plastic model kits, the worst is over. You can stop pretending to respectability and go back to looking at Airfix magazine in the toilets. The perverse hopes we speak of are: a. The hope that a major manufacturer will mould…
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Smorgasbuilding
One of those, and one of those, and one of those… And you won’t build that sort again, because they’re icky. And there you are, in the aisle of the local HobbyHell Supastore looking for a small bottle of paint – or a large box of tank. And you see a rack full of packets…
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Wait. What?
Putting the Junkers cart before the horse yesterday was one of the dangers of using the WordPress computer program without supervision. I have been writing columns with it for years on a free basis – you poor souls out there pay the bill when you read the ads that pop up as you scan through…
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In The Mood
What kind of a modeller are you? I don’t mean are you old or young, fat or slim, etc. I mean, are you the sort who breeze into a room, throw a kit open on the table, and start weathering the scupper recovery ports with half your dinner jacket on…or do you need to psyche…
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” Why Would You Bother…”
Passing remarks should be allowed to pass – after all flatus is allowed to exit the body freely as long as there is a strong breeze to carry it away. So with many opinions. One that I heard of recently ( note the phrase ” heard of ” rather than ” heard “…that defining border…
The Little World 