Category: Modelling exhibitions
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The Year-Round Scale Model Show – Part Two
So the annual weekend in the hall is to be kaput. Now we think up the new show. You’re soaking in it; the internet. The always-there screen that steals your images and time. The ever-present menace to your credit card. But this time it will be fun. If there is a reasonable pot of money…and…
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The Year-Round Scale Model Show – Part One
Here in Perth, Western Australia, we have been told that the big local scale model exhibition that’s been going for decades will fold up after this year. This is sad. The reasons given for this is the retirement of the organising committee and the lack of any volunteers to replace them. There may also be…
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The Scale Model Show – Part Two
What do you show of yourself when you make a tabletop display for the big local scale model exhibition? I don’t mean what model do you show – that’ll either be something you’ve slaved on for the last year or something you made aeons ago. I mean what are you selling when you are not…
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It’s Showtime, Folks! – Part One
I can never free myself from the image of Michael Keaton in ” Beetlejuice ” delivering that line. I use it whenever something is about to start – whether it is a big local scale modelling exhibition or a simple autopsy. Hand me the saw and stand back. This year’s BLSME in Perth was announced…
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“I’m Doing This To Educate The Public”
Horse shit. You’re doing whatever you’re doing for yourself. To have fun, hopefully – but you are trying to justify the expense and the time by making it seem altruistic. Just come out and admit you’re doing it for you, and we’ll be happy – for you. I’ve encountered this porky in any number of…
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Never Too Late
Except if you dined at an Ethiopian restaurant the night before and feel you might need to seek a toilet. No matter how fast you are, you will never be fast enough. And there is no point in getting up and thinking you’re done. You might as well settle in for the day. In the…
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Hall Of Fame
I am starting to despair of ever getting into the Modelling Hall Of Fame. No matter how much I desire it, no-one pins a medal on my chest or shakes my hand. The pedantic types point out that I don’t enter competitions. True, but that shouldn’t stop people from praising me. I think I am…
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What I Have Learned From Big Local Model Exhibitions.
I’ve checked my photo records and discovered that I’ve been looking at model exhibitions for some 50 years. In some circumstance as a participant – in others just a spectator, Whichever, I have learned valuable lessons: a. They are all worthwhile – even the manky little ones. There is always something new to see in…
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AI And The Contest Judge – Part Four – You Lose Points
The scale modeller who seeks love by looking in the wrong places – ie a scale model contest – will be particularly ill-served by AI. The ordinary run of contest modelling is hard enough: A. The business of conceiving a new model based upon the bias of the judges – analysing what they rewarded in…
The Little World 