Category: Model building club
-
When People Are Determined To Be Happy
You have to work hard to break the spell. One of my hobby clubs meets in two separate places; a public library and my photo studio. It is fortnightly schedule that lets us have an outing somewhere each week. Another club offers a delightful morning mid-week. I need never lack for amusement. This camaraderie is…
-
Finnish Brewster Buffalo – Part Two – All In A Day’s Play
I have given up days of work. Now I slave away at a hobby… it is much more trouble… And I should not have it otherwise. I can remember employment and practice and professional education and have no desire whatsoever to go back and re-commence them. If I had to do it all over again,…
-
The Transient Model
Some modellers are lucky. They get to keep their models as long as they want…whether in kit form or built-up. They have display space and protection for their work. Others have to watch their results given away, trashed, or lost. Their only consolation is that it makes more space to build again. Yet the impermanence…
-
We’re Not A Club
We’re a cult. The building of scale models is not the sort of thing that you can leave to just anyone. You have to be chosen. Who, exactly, does the choosing? You will be told in due course. If the behind-the-scenes investigation report is favourable. Do not try to hide anything – we have ways…
-
The Drive-By Scale Dumping
Someone, somewhere, is dumping 1:12 scale old mattresses on the verge outside dollhouse maker’s workshops. And someone is dumping their old scale models at our clubrooms. We are slowly pulling them out of our display cabinets and subjecting them to scale scrutiny. It’s not the quality of the building that is suspect – it ‘s…
-
AVIA B.534 – Part One – A Newcastle Model Kit
Newcastle model? A Newcastle model is one you encounter unexpectedly and seize upon. It is a case of never letting a chance go by…refer to Bob Hudson’s song for further instructions. This old Czech KP kit is from the 1980’s. The box had seen service, but at least protected the sprue trees, decals and instructions.…
-
I Need A Secretary
Stop making those snorting noises – I really do. I write more than I can readily publish and the mechanics of translating these little pieces to the WordPress site and then sneaking them onto a Facebook page is taking up a great deal of time. They come off the ends of my fingers like literary…
-
The Modellers Declaration Of Rights
A treatise for the times. And good luck to you defending these propositions in the scale modelling world. There are more dictators in the hobby than in all of Africa and South America combined, and they would all rule you if they could. From shape of kits, to equipment, to paint colour, to pattern, decals,…
-
I Can Quit Any Time I Want
But building model airplanes is a cultural activity. And good for the economy. And, and, and… Don’t go in there; that’s the stash room. If you open the door the sealed atmosphere will be contaminated. Where was I all day? In my workshop or at the club, of course. Clubs, actually. Uh, workshops, as well,…
-
Morning Sickness In The Model Workshop
You’ll know you have it when the smell of fresh thinner makes you ill. It will probably not be pregnancy, particularly if you are a member of the local Men’s Shed. Few of the chaps over 60 in my club fall pregnant in the course of a year. It may be one of a number…
The Little World 