Category: Modelling exhibitions
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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…
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Triumph Herald – Part Four – The Non-Rolling Chassis
Despite appearances, I have grown up. I no longer build scale models with working parts. I can accept fixed wheels. Particularly when they are dependent upon thin plastic axles and cemented suspension parts. I have too many experiences with 1:72 landing gear legs to be sanguine about engineering in styrene. The Herald chassis is square…
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Wait Until The Judges See My Entry
Then they’ll know I’m good, and everyone else will know it as well. I hope I can convince myself. But what if I don’t win? What if I get marked down by the judges with the clipboards and the scoring sheets? What if someone else wins and I’m just an also-ran? a. The world stops.…
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Kawanishi Shiun – Part One – A Norm By Any Other Name
If you are scandalised by the use of Allied code-names for Japanese aircraft of WW2, make sure you check back later when I use NATO reporting names for Soviet planes. This is officially the E15K1 but not again in this column. It is a Norm. A very special plane and welcome in the collection. I…
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The Imperial March
Followed by the Democratic April and the Socialist May. The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition is coming to town. In Anarchist August this year. There will be contests and contestants – exhibits and exhibitionists – sales and suckers. I hope to be one of the latter. I have money and a gullible nature and there…
The Little World 