Category: Modelling exhibitions
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Spirited Modelling
And there are all sorts of spirits… a. The generous spirit. Thess modellers make friends with all their club mates and anyone met at shows. They give away models and accessories to help other people. They appreciate other people’s efforts. They contribute to club affairs. b. The mean spirit. They keep what they know to…
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The Swedish Curse
Cold winters. Long nights. Trapped in the hangar with nothing to do. Add an active crew in the paint shop and an account down the local Bunnings paint department… And there you go. Camouflage schemes that involve 45 different colours with hard lines and geometric angles. And every modeller who wants a Viggen or a…
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Scale Model Envy
Sin in miniature. I rarely give way to envy at the scale model exhibition – even in the competition hall when most of the entries are far better than I could do. But I did come over all goosey when I saw this model of a Cletrac airfield tractor. It appears to be in 1:48…
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What’s A Success In Scale Modelling?
Depends – and on a number of factors. Firstly there’s the modeller. Some are dedicated, some are casual. For some it is a hobby – for others, real life. The intense modeller may set higher goals for themselves than the person who treats it lightly. Then there’s the intent. If someone sets out to tell…
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A Different Bird
Oh, what a load of tales circle about the Plague Doctor’s costume. You can Wiki them yourself – I did and was immediately suspicious of the stories and supposed history. So many illustrations and rumours from the middle ages and renaissance eras have taken on lives of their own that I take many of them…
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The Bird
In this case, I believe, a Puffin. I was delighted to see that someone entered a model of this bird in the WASMex competition this year. A recent video we made mentioned the kits that were once produced of North American songbirds and asked where they had got to. Perhaps the idea has never gone…
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If You Only Have One Computer
And only add one program… Add Photoshop Elements. Whatever your machine will cope with – whatever the current iteration is. Go add an old version if that is all that you can get. It is a mom-and-pop editing program for Mac or Windows that lets the consumer use simplified commands and tools to make nearly…
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Say What You Will About the Design
And debate as much as you like how well it might have done against a Tiger I… I still want one – as the shopping vehicle for my local IGA car park. The bays in the centre have been painted on the asphalt in such a way as to get the most cars – and…
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The Dorchester
When You Take The Office With You This model of the AEC command vehicle nicknamed the Dorchester was one of the highlights for me at the recent WASMex exhibition. I think the appeal was the fact that the modeller left the roof off and super-detailled the interior. I cannot tell from my photo whether the…
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A Seller’s Guide To Secondhand Kit Sales
Your key to financial security in styrene. If you would contemplate your fortune in relation to the sale of secondhand model kits, remember that you can turn a small one into a large one or a large one into a small one across the same table. If you acquire a stock of model kits that…
The Little World 