Category: Modelling Supplies
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What Is A Senior Model? Part One.
And don’t get funny with the Mick Jagger or Keith Richards jokes…I mean scale models. What do people over 60 want in a scale model kit, and how can they get it? I can speak for myself as I passed that mark twelve years ago, but I am hesitant to decide for others. However, I…
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Ya Nevva Nevva Know..
If ya nevva nevva go… The catchline of an Australian advertisement last decade that sought to promote tourism in the Northern territory. Based upon the name of part of the place; Never Never Land. For my part I am inclined to read road signs and obey them and this is as good a warning as…
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Next!
This post may anger some people. It is predicated upon bourgeoise riches and wretched excess. The proletariat has likely been trodden under the iron heel of capitalism and no mercy has been shown to the victims. I have a stash. A stash of 1:72 model kits, I hasten to add – and the thing grows…
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Grumman F6F Hellcats – Part One – The Cheap Twins
There is no box art to show you with this build; there was no box. The kits that comprise it were left on the table at our modeller’s club with a ” Free to a good home ” sign. I live in a good home… They appear to be part of a three-plane set from…
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Wait. What? Chapter 2…
Got a definitive answer on the Testor’s question. The shops here are selling out of their stocks because Testors refuses to ship to Australia. Too far? Too high a cost? Too small a market to justify keeping staff busy? Advice from some new MBA in the accountancy department? Boss had a bad experience in Queensland…
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Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part One – Sold Down The Aisle
If ever there was an example of successful box art it must surely be this Italeri 1:72 Vickers Wellington Mk IC – successful for me and for the hobby shop. The end flap illustration caught my eye in Hearn’s Hobbies in Melbourne and I was sold as soon as I slid the box down off…
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Every Puppy Poopy Has A Home?
I visit shops with an air of wonder. Sometimes it is wonder at what they have for sale and sometimes it is wonder at why I am there. And occasionally it is wonder at who could possibly want the stock. This was the case when I was in the retail photographic trade as a shop…
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Wait. What?
I have just been given a conflicting story and am in the process of processing it. Pardon the odd sounds coming from my brain. Some of them are gas and some of them are suspicion. The basic problem surfaced a few months ago when I went to my local hobby shop to get another bottle…
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Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Three – Just Outta The Paint Shop
Well, it has been a couple of days. We are in spring*, which means we should be getting warmer weather soon. But we also get the tail end showers of winter with the ensuing bad paint conditions. So I have been dodging in and out of the Little Workshop catching my opportunities as they arise;…
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Specialise, Generalise, Or Traumatise…
This was my choice when I was entering dental practice – I’d completed undergraduate training and was certified enough to be let out into the community to exercise the results of my training for profit. Or I could re-enter the university circus tent, sweep up after a different set of elephants for another three years,…
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