Category: Miniature Philosophy
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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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Ye Olde Kitte
I went to the swap-meet section of the plastic modelling exhibition a little while ago and looked around. I do that – surreptitious spying is one of those hobbies that you can do with little initial outlay – Just a black cloak and broad – brimmed hat. The dark sunglasses and anarchist’s bomb are just…
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Scale Modelling – The Better Choice
I met three chaps at the 2018 Plastic Modelling Show who were the smartest men on the planet – they were willing to look at themselves and their situation honestly and make the best decision they could about it.They might not be philosophers but they’re wise enough. They come from Koorda, a town in…
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Republic P-47 – Part One – The Gangster Connection
I try to find a connection for my models – and this one is going to tie back to my father and a childhood friend of his – Hubert Zemke. They were kids in Missoula, Montana at a time when a German name and a German family brought insular righteousness down on you. So I…
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Where Is Planning Committee?
Is there a Central Planning Committee for the Little World? Perhaps we should have a conspiratorial organisation that meets in secret bunkers under impregnable mountains? With guard dogs, and henchmen and girls in tight dresses… What would the Central Committee decide? a. What things get modelled in which scale. At present the world divides off…
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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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