Category: Miniature Philosophy
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The Exact Thing Or Just The Thing…
If you are going to make a model of something – whether it is an aircraft, a car, a train, or a house – you are going to have to answer some unasked questions. Exactly who asks these and what your answer should be is up to you… a. Why am I building this? Dive…
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Nakajima ‘ Kate ‘ – Part Two – Realistic Manufacture
The new Airfix model kit is sitting drying in the warm workshop as I write. I’ve done the washing of the parts, scanned the decal sheet and instructions, and done a preliminary check of the parts. I’m delighted with what I’ve found. Or not found…no polyurethane blocks with miniscule parts to be sawn free and…
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Envy Is As Envy Does…Sin Seven
We’ve all heard of peer pressure but really that term is more applicable to our last sin…Envy. What envy generally does, is peer. It peers into catalogs, peers into other people’s mail, peers over the fence, peers over shoulders. It is never happy with what it sees…because what it sees is someone else with something…
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Look At Me Look At Me!…Sin Six
Hey, you! I said look at me! Look at the model I made! Look at the train layout I made! Look at the dollhouse I made! Ain’t I the most fabulous thing you’ve ever seen? Disregard the fact that the model battleship is a kit and the only skill I have shown is not gluing…
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The Complete Story Of…Sin Five
” Well? Where is it? Where’s the last part of the title? We paid for the whole damn title…” I’ll get round to it eventually…but first a word about sloth for modellers. The word is – slow down. No sense rushing a modelling job. Slow and steady wins the race. A good job well begun…
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Greedy Little Swine…Sin Four
Greed is a deadly sin. The definition of greed is therefore a wonderful tool with which to manipulate people – like the word ‘racist ‘, the person who first wields it in modern debate has a distinct advantage – their opponent has then to expend ten times the amount of effort to disprove it that…
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Lust – Pant, Pant, Pant…Sin Three
It’s hard to focus on lust as a Little World sin if you adhere to the Big World definition of it as purely sexual. Granted there are some pretty erotic little statuettes sold to the Japanese market but then you have to remember that these are the people who went mad over a man in…
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