Category: Model building club
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” We Can’t Attract Young People…”
That’s the catch cry of the plastic modelling club members over their coffee and biscuits as we glue together $ 100 model kits of equipment that existed 74 years ago and has never been seen since. Quite frankly, I’m surprised that we can attract ourselves… It’s not quite that bad in the model train world…
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Consolidated Liberator B.VI – Part One – Swappies
The swap has been done – Paddy – a gentleman who read my advertisement on Gumtree – called and we have exchanged a Revell flying boat kit for an Airfix bomber kit. We both seem delighted with the deal and I will devote this kit to my workshop after the Boeing Fortress Mk III is…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Four – Debut Day On The Club Bench
The Tuesday Soviet saw my new Airfix model box for the first time today and most seem to approve. I opened it up and started to study the instructions – fully intending to do most of the building on my Tuesdays to prolong the pleasure. The Airfix instructions are good – I experience little or…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part One – Silver
Well, there we were, folks – Sandown Park in Melbourne for the 2019 model exhibition. Plenty of parking, real live motor cars circling the track, and a large canteen area set aside for the punters. What more could one want? One of the first tables that caught the eye after I rounded the Wall O’…
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The Annual Gluefest Finished Cheerfully
And not a sticky fingerprint on any of the plastic parts. At least not on the competition entries. It was my first little venture into showing a plastic model and I played it safe – I just put it into the general club display on the table and didn’t ask for any judgement. There may…
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Fairchild Flying Boxcar – Part Two – The Silver Carcase
The Fairchild Flying Boxcar model is proceeding apace, but the pace is slow. This is a deliberate decision as I am using it as my weekly Men’s Shed project. This means I do most of the work on it in the Tuesday 9:00 to 12:30 time slot when I can attend the modelling club. So…
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” It’s Only A 1:72 Model…”
The word to look at in the title is ” only ” – and I would look at it askance, if I were you… I’ve noticed that there can be quite some little hierarchy in the scale model building fraternity – based upon a number of factors: a. Years spent doing the hobby. This is…
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A Different Rhythm At The Workbench
What strange creatures we are. When working for a living there were times when I could not get away from my work station fast enough at the end of the day. Now that I’m retired, I can’t wait to get to it. And there are weeks when I seem to work at it as if…
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The Shed Of Men
Of old men. Cranky old men. Building plastic models. Growling at each other. Venting unpleasant political opinions. Being incorrect, on every level. Cursing, swearing, reviling, jeering, and moaning at each other. And drinking coffee and eating cake. And loving it. Men who have gotten past the age of work and have reached the age of…
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Bell Model 47 – Part Three – The Bubble
Well, that was a surprise. I opened the Italeri box one morning at the modelling club and the helicopter landed, finished, on my studio table at 4:30 PM next day. And there was time in between working on it to put the camouflage colours on the CH-147 Chinook. I’ve no idea what this indicates in…
The Little World 