Category: Model ships
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Charles Schultz Said Happiness Was A Warm Puppy

Charles Addams agreed, but recommended gravy with it. So it is with the scale model building hobby. We are offered many kits of things that are essentially the same, but with a different twist. Take the example of the Japanese battleship YAMATO. I have seen it in commercial form in every scale from 1:3000 to…
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” That’s A Pleasure To See “

Be fair and honest. Sometimes your mates will complete scale model projects that are far better than you could ever do. Don’t be jealous. Don’t be critical. Don’t push them off the shelf onto the floor. Give them their due, and ADMIRE them. I see other modellers in my clubs concentrate on their specialities and…
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Higgins LCVP – Part One – Barging Into The Club

There are a number of people in my hobby club who make scale model ships and boats – and do it magnificently. I am about to join them but in a much humbler way – I need a workboat for an air diorama I plan to make. Fortunately Airfix have just the very thing, and…
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Really Good Water Is Hard To Find

And not just in the Sahara – you’ll be struggling if you search in your local hobby shop. I’ve wanted it for several projects but rarely found a good representation. Were I a dedicated ship modeller I would find the problem to be central to my builds. i suppose this would either drive me to…
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The 1/285th Scale Model

Don’t let those pedants force you to 1/350 or 1/200 or anything else. If 1/285th was good enough for the 1950’s it is good enough for now. All we need is for the kit manufacturers to cut new moulds to this scale and box them. We desperately need another MISSOURI and BISMARCK…preferably with box art…
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How Many Long Distance Runners Appreciate What They Are Doing?

And how many scale modellers do, either. The person who sits, day after day, completing tank tracks, or gluing branches on tiny pine trees, or copper plating the bottom of a wooden vessel will probably not say that they are having a whale of a time…unless the model ship is the PEAQUOD, and in that…
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Merely A Model Builder

And old eccentric. Trapped in a second childhood. A harmless weirdo. Or so it would seem from a recent detective novel I read. Written about a modern-day serial murderer in Somerset and the detective work that catches her, it takes more than a passing swipe at model railway enthusiasts – and railway hobbyists in general.…



