Category: Miniature Philosophy
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” Paging Mr. Styne. Paging Mr. Styne “
I won two trophies today for a very minor achievement – a model diorama at a toy collector’s fair – but it will involve me in a major change to my life. I am going to have to become an entirely new man. My past life must be discarded. I started life as Richard William…
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The Big Layout Vs The Small Layout – Part Two – On Scale Planning
We’ve discussed scale before and the way that different hobbies and different manufacturers fiddle and footle when it comes to deciding measurements for model building. Everyone goes their own way and demands that you follow. Well, the thing you’re going to have to do when contemplating your Little World is to decide which scale you…
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The Baseroom Layout Vs The Train Set – Part One – On Planning Your Little World
My recent annual foray to the Western Australian Model Railway Exhibition was fresh in my mind as I set to work planning out my hobby room at the Little Studio. When you see what others do, you can either get good ideas or bad ones. I hope I have observed well and drawn the correct…
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The Cost of the Kit Is Not Included
I’m old. I can remember plastic-bagged 50¢ Airfix kits. I can remember the little brown vials of cement that came in the boxed kits. ( best cement ever…) I can remember life before acrylic paints… Old. But this doesn’t mean to say that I am feeble-minded – or that I can be persuaded to open…
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Oddly Enough – It’s Not The Trains…
My annual visit to the model rail exhibition was a resounding success – here in Western Australia it amounts to a trade show and swapmeet as much as it is a pure exhibition…and everyone benefits. And it was somewhat of an eye-opener for a student of Little Worlds: a. It was very well attended –…
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When Someone Says…
When someone looks at your Little World, or your Little Workshop, or your Little Sewing Room and says: a. ” What’s the point? ” Show them the point . Excel and Swann Morton make an excellent range of points and a fresh one always penetrates their consciousness far better than one that has been used…
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Your Little World Need Not Exist In Space or Time
Ooooh, getting all spooky now! The next few paragraphs are going to be voiced by Morgan Freeman. Or Rod Serling. Or Spongebob Squarepants… If your Little World cannot possibly exist, you are very fortunate – you’re freed from the necessity to obey the laws of physics. Time, space, and frugal responsibility can be discarded. You…
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When You See A Dead End Street…
There are lots of different sorts of streets and roads out in the Big World – so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that there can also be a variety in the Little World. And amongst that variety is the dead-end street – the no through road or cul de sac of modelling.…
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$ 20 A Donk
I’m just back from the hobby shop with three pots of paint and a new kit for the stash. It wasn’t an impulse buy – I have had it on the acquisition roster for some time, and just wanted to see what was available around town before I opened the wallet. I’d also asked around…
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When Your Time Has Come…
I was thinking of this question while visiting the local hobby shop – Hobbytech. A Sunday afternoon and just the time one runs out of khaki-coloured paint. No good sitting there and wishing that it would appear in the paint rack – you just have to go out and get it. The hobby shop was…
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