Category: Model building club
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Governance
Your chance to select a favourite form of domination. We have: a. Kitocracy. The person with the most kits wins. These do not have to be completed, though that would give you more credibility. If you are prepared to just total up the number of boxes in the stash and count that as the prime…
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I’ve Been To The Movies Too, Ya Know…
Whenever I sit in on a group of experts and listen to them tell each other stories I reflect that some of these are probably being retailed with advantage. In fact a few of the tale-tellers are probably advantaging through their teeth. None more so than The People Who Weren’t There. This is because the…
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Northrop Gamma – Part One – Inter-war Special
Newcastle Song Day. And I didn’t let the chance go by. This was the first time I had seen a Williams kit – though I had read about them in Scalemetes. The impression I got was that they were rather garage-kit like. This vanished when I opened the box at the club’s stash sale and…
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The Imperial March
Followed by the Democratic April and the Socialist May. The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition is coming to town. In Anarchist August this year. There will be contests and contestants – exhibits and exhibitionists – sales and suckers. I hope to be one of the latter. I have money and a gullible nature and there…
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Are You Proud Of Your Work?
That sounds like one of those passive/aggressive questions that bullies invent to make people feel bad. But bear with me – it is legitimate. Are you proud of the models you make? I am, and I display them at my studio in IKEA cabinets. I take pictures of them and post them on the internet.…
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TKS Tankette – Part One – Earwig O Again
Gary has visited the Men’s Shed at the modelling club again – bringing his box of extremely inexpensive scale models with him. I am skint this month due to extra studio expenses but even so I was able to buy three models for $ 1 each! This Polish TKS tankette kit is nowhere near as…
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Polish Tankette – Part Six – Brushing Aside My Fears
The Polish TKS tankette is ready to join the roster in the Armour Museum. Now all we need is an armour museum Well, it’s coming. The Ess Bend Engineering workshop is proceeding well, and as soon as that is done more tanks and vehicles will be pouring out of it, and they have to pour…
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Polish Tankette – Part Four – The Painting Starts
So – what are Hataka paints like anyway? The four bottles of Hataka acrylic paint are the first of their brand I’ve ever encountered. I noted a year or so ago that they were all the rage on the Flory internet model show, but have seen little of them there recently. There was some talk…
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What Did I Fear?
Notice the difference between yesterday’s title and today’s? That’s because today contains the answer to the problem. Let me start out by telling you that as a child I was terrified of skeletons. I’d seen a Walt Disney cartoon of them leaping toward the viewer and couldn’t face the idea for 15 years after that.…
The Little World 