Category: Modelling Club
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Hawker Typhoon 1B – Part Three – Bombphoon
The Best That Could Be Done. There are some kits that you can build to the max of the craft. Others are on a lesser level – they can be to the max of your skill or the max of their limited potential, As long as you get to one of these points, you have…
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If I Seem A Bit One-Eyed For The Next Month Or So…
It is because I am having my eyes operated upon for cataracts. Today is the first day after the op on the left and things are very foggy out there. I cannot be trusted to drive or operate a bulldozer. I am already married so that eliminates the danger of contracting another for some time,…
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Yotta And Relse
Yotta do this, build those, watch that. Yotta… Relse. Relse you won’t be keeping up, or getting value, or…or…or… Or living your life the way the way Yotta and Relse have it planned out. They’re in the business of controlling you, even as they fail to control themselves. Advice and scolding are their tools of…
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Dog, Wallet, Rifle…
I have been blessed. I am a member of a scale model club that is fool enough to have me. That’s funny, but not funny. All our lives we move in circles that are of varying quality. Workplaces, family groups, open associations. Some we trust, and some we trust-lite. I’m a member of a model…
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You Look At It
It looks at you. The scale model stand-off; you have bought a kit well beyond your comfort zone. It has 1468 parts plus a booklet and a decal sheet with 47 different options. Every track link has 18 parts and you need to make up 256 of them. This might be fine, except it is…
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How Does A Hobby Fall Upon Its Prey?
Having been savaged by at least eight major hobbies in my life, with the wreck of finance and intellect as evidence, I am finally drawn to wondering why… Why these things, why me, why anyone. Why do ’em, and why pay for ’em. Every child plays with toys, if they are lucky. Every child runs…
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What Price Sociable Modelling?
What indeed? You have to assess the cost in several ways: a. The club fees. One club I belong to has a $50 yearly subscription. Another has nothing, but costs me at least treble that amount in food and drink, electricity and insurance for the premises. In both cases the fees are paid gladly. b.…
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Is Your Hobby Exclusive?
Jeez, I hope not. Lots of things in life are; institutions, clubs, professions. Families, religions, nations, tribes. Trades, towns, and teams. You might get in or you might not, and it often depends on others’ say-so. Whatever hobby you select ( or whichever selects you…) settle on one that lets everyone in; the elite as…
The Little World 