Category: Modelling Supplies
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When to reach… – Part Two – The Cheap Option
I love being cheap. It looks so trendy and cool. And you can set up a camouflage of frugality for 29 days of the month that allows you to go out and spend like a maniac on the 30th… The cheapest way to paint a model – apart from dipping it in a bucket of…
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Canadair Sabre – Part Three – Read The Label On The Jar, Dummy…
Observe the heading image. Four pots of Mr. Color lacquer paint. All of them say ” silver ” somewhere on the label. One, however, also says ” trouble “. The saga started when I painted the Airfix Brewster Buffalo earlier in the year. I had two pots of Mr Color Super Silver – No. 159…
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The Oulde Moulde
Or ” How I Learned To Overcome Despair “. It is just as well that I do most ob my building these days in 1:72 or 1:76. If I chose larger scales I would inevitably run up against a plastic kit that had been manufactured in 1823 and then my level of frustration and angst…
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Good Morning Walter – Part Eleven – Playing Shops
Walter, if you’re anything like me, you enjoy going to the shops. Sometimes it may seem a little boring to go to department stores with your Mum to buy things like drapes or towels ( and in the 50’s all department stores were painted beige and they were deserts of boredom…) but if you endure…
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The Scale Of My Problem
I have a problem*. The scale of my model airplanes is 1:72 – and that is the general scale to which I wish to build my model airfields. I have been lucky so far – the British card kits from Superquick and Metcalf are mostly in 1:72 or 1:76 ( an acceptable compromise ) and…
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Someone Wants Me…
I’m a 1/48th scale model of a dust cart. In a world of Messerschmitts, Super Hornets, and Saturn V rockets…I’m a dust cart. Two wheels, a bin, and a handle. You get a broom and a shovel on the sprue and a set of decals that look like banana peels and cat puke. The instruction…
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The Expert Review Vs The Actual Experience
If you read my column thinking that you’ll get cutting-edge expertise and the very latest technical reviews, you are in for a sad time. I am not a master modeller. I may be an expert tease, but the only cutting edges around my Little Workshop are generally biting into my fingers and thumbs when I…
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Consolidated Liberator B.VI – Part One – Swappies
The swap has been done – Paddy – a gentleman who read my advertisement on Gumtree – called and we have exchanged a Revell flying boat kit for an Airfix bomber kit. We both seem delighted with the deal and I will devote this kit to my workshop after the Boeing Fortress Mk III is…
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A Spectacular Sunday’s Discovery
For several years I have tried to get to the model Car Sunday, but failed – yesterday I succeeded and found a very interesting product made by a local craftsman. The product is a range of portable modelling boxes and the maker Garrett McIntyre from Collie in Western Australia. His basic aim was to make…
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The Return Of The Chinese Junk
When I was a kid in the 50’s there were dime stores that sold goods cheaply. In some cases they were cheap goods – particularly if they were plastic toys from Hong Kong. There was a particularly brittle form of plastic that was used in toy factories that was moulded into all sorts of workable…
The Little World 