Category: Modelling Club
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Don’t You Have Something Better To Do?
Well, frankly, no. I used to have professional practice to do, attended with terrible anxiety. It paid me money for awhile, and then didn’t. A signal… So I took up trade, and it was attended by less angst, and more money. Eventually I had accumulated enough of both to be satisfied. Now I have decided…
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Aero Vodochody Delfin – Part Two – If You Call For Your Czech Early
You don’t have to leave a tip. A morning at my scale modelling club begins with 45-60 minutes on the road – coping with a series of traffic lights and a clogged-up river bridge. It is wearisome but I figure you have to pay for your pleasures somehow. The comes up to 3 hours of…
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People’s Democratic Socialist Scale Modelling Club
You will come to attention. Chairman of PDSSCM is to speak. ” Comrades, we are embarked upon a sacred mission of the proletariat; the transformation of a hobby into an all-embracing campaign to free the workers and peasants from their age-old slavery to the capitalist model kit companies. The time of oppression when we built…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part One – Czeching Out The Next Stage
A few months ago I purchased an Eduard kit from Hobbytech Toys in Myaree – a Weekend Edition of a Czech crop duster. It was delightful. Encouraged, I returned to HobbyTech one Sunday and picked up a Profi-Pack Edition of this classic Soviet fighter. I wanted to see what differences Eduard would provide. I noted…
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How To Make A Forum Of Modellers Laugh
Apologise to them on behalf of each other. I once turned my keyboard to a scale model tank forum and tried to tell a joke. The responses were 2% laughter, 58% incomprehension, 38% serious scolding, and 2% vitriol. This for a 1:35 plastic Sherman tank. Needless to say nearly all the negative responses were from…
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None of My Work Is Written With Artificial Intelligence
It is pure, natural stupidity. I have what is apparently an inexhaustible supply of this and it seems a shame to waste the opportunity to turn it to good use. I have long since ceased to plague the general populace in a professional sense and even my trade days are done. Now I just build…
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The Club Visit
In this case to a famous regiment’s museum. Members of the SMCWA were recently honoured to visit the regimental museum of the SAS regiment here in Perth. Overseas readers are urged to google up the history of the regiment – it is far too extensive and interesting for me to tally up. Prepare for a…
The Little World 