Category: Miniature Philosophy
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Zen Modelling – Part Two
We need to question two more servants about this zen business. Here’s WHEN to fill us in on the schedule: ” When do you seek zen enlightenment? When you don’t have it. When you feel all up and down and jangled and iffy and nothing seems to satisfy you. That’s the time to contemplate what…
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The Zen Of Modelling – Part One
Go google ” Schopenhauer’s Workshop ” and ” Inch High Guy ” weblogs on your computer. Open the sites and explore some of their posts; it will be well worth your time. They are enthusiasts just like you and produce superb models – they also produce a lot of fun for themselves. You can share…
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A Childhood Ambition Realised
No, I will not be a fighter pilot, or a movie star, or a rich man. But I think I can say that I am acheiving a childhood ambition with my aero modelling. Not flying models, you understand – scale plastic models that sit on a shelf. My experience with flying models was and has…
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Reading The Other Weblog Columns
Contrary to what you might think, I do read other weblog columns. Not the ones that deal with pre-teen poetry and /or how to make money online from home. I also shy away from the ones that have a conspiracy theory about the numbers on the side of cornflakes packets. I read other modeller’s reports.…
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“ Toy-Like “
A well-known set of modellers discuss their builds on the internet regularly and show how they apply weathering, washes, oils, staining, filters, and a whole armoury of pictorial effects to their models. The results are indeed grimy and realistic – one has to applaud them for that. Yet, they fall into a habit of describing…
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The Physics Of Plastic Model Building
a. The shape of a fuselage is arbitrary. It can be one shape one side and another thing on the opposite side. This is known as the Buda-Pest principle. As there is a front and a back it can also be different there, so that’s four parts that may have their own opinion and refuse…
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Stash And Stashette
No, it isn’t a new take on Mozart’s Magic Flute characters – I am trying to quantify the pile of unbuilt kits that every modeller seems to have. If one kit is…one kit…when does a number of kits become a stashette and when does it graduated to being a full-fledged stash? I could have answered…
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Douglas Skyhawk – Part Two – Grey Ghost
The grey primer stage of the Skyhawk build is very accusatory – it accuses me of great failure in losing that canopy. The rest of the plane is superb. Ah, well, it is ever thus. I have a long history of losing parts – and not all on the concrete floor of the workshop, either.…
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Genug
Genug ist genug. And when you have arrived at that point with your model build, it’s time to stop. One bite more than enough pie makes the dish nauseous – one minute more of the best conversation risks hearing or saying too much. The same applies to kit building. There is a point at which…
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Macchi Saetta MC 200 – Part One – The Revell Ship
Readers of this column will remember that I built a Hobby Boss Macchi MC 200 in Italian Co-Belligerant colours a couple of years ago. A very pleasing aircraft and the blotchy camouflage came out very well. Now I am embarked upon construction of another example of this plane – but this time a 50¢ baggie…
