Category: Modelling exhibitions
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Model Car Spectacular 2023
I learned a lot yesterday when I attended a model car show. I probably knew it beforehand, but my mind had not bothered to assemble the various facts. Now I can look at the photo results and do some thinking. Firstly, let me say the clubs that did the exhibition worked all-out to make a…
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Multi-win Modelling
As odd as it may seem, there are people who consider it their duty to decide the amount of happiness allowed to others. You might see them in schools, military units, and workplaces. They also exist in the scale modelling world. You may have met them. You will certainly have if you paint your model…
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The Royal Noranda Pensioners
A fine body of men… The British Army has an institution for broken-down old soldiers in the London suburb of Chelsea – the Royal Hospital. It provides accommodation, clothing, food, and care for those who have served for many years and have no better place to go. The Légion étrangère does the same at Aubagne…
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Middle-Class Modelling
Worrying about not being seen as better – or being seen as worse – than you really are? Perhaps it would be more accurate to refer to it as having a case of muddle-class modelling. However one defines it, by the time someone finds themself thinking they are in the middle of it, it is…
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Styrene Broker – Part Two
The scale market’s answer to Madoff and Ponzi. In case you are wondering what the answer should be, ” No ” is safest. Anyone who has seen a pyramid or junk bond scheme in operation will recognise the game as it develops. We’re after a better class of broker here. I have disposed of many…
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Vultee Vanguard – Part One – Stash Sale Star
The acquisition of a Vultee Vanguard was one of those serendipitous moments – a stash was being thinned, the sales day was ending, the owner was marking things down, and I had $ 15 left. Now the painful part – the decision whether to assign this one to the USAAF, the RCAF, or the Nationalist…
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Desperate Modellers
Every time you encounter a model of the Eiffel Tower made of matchsticks, doff your hat and stand silent for a minute. You are in the presence of death. The person who spent six months making the model – and paid $ 50.25 for glue and wooden sticks – was a fine human being. Perhaps…
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I’ve Been To The Movies Too, Ya Know…
Whenever I sit in on a group of experts and listen to them tell each other stories I reflect that some of these are probably being retailed with advantage. In fact a few of the tale-tellers are probably advantaging through their teeth. None more so than The People Who Weren’t There. This is because the…
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Messerschmitt 410 – Part two – Expo Build
There are no build pictures for this model as I was busy holding down a table at the Big Local Scale Model Exhibition as it was being constructed. I had put out 6 of my airfield dioramas as part of a group display and as they did not need a lot of minding, I was…
The Little World 