Category: Modelling Supplies
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The Witchcraft That Is Airbrushing
I am new to airbrushing but not that new. A couple of tentative years under my belt. I’ve gone from stark terror to grudging acceptance. Reminds you of married life, doesn’t it? The first airbrush was a cheapie from Metro Hobbies, but complete enough to have three separate needle/nozzle/housing options included. They are stated as…
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When Your Time Has Come…
I was thinking of this question while visiting the local hobby shop – Hobbytech. A Sunday afternoon and just the time one runs out of khaki-coloured paint. No good sitting there and wishing that it would appear in the paint rack – you just have to go out and get it. The hobby shop was…
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The Integrated Multi-Level Spatial Constructional Workflow Paradigm
Oops, sorry. I had the Dilbert switch turned on there when I typed that. Lemme turn it off. Here we go again. ” When To Glue Things On. ” That’s better. As a topic it may seem a lot more complex than it really is…because the whole thing basically is not to stick something on…
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Ye Olde Kitte
I went to the swap-meet section of the plastic modelling exhibition a little while ago and looked around. I do that – surreptitious spying is one of those hobbies that you can do with little initial outlay – Just a black cloak and broad – brimmed hat. The dark sunglasses and anarchist’s bomb are just…
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I Shall Show You Ze Instruments…
Ve haf vays of making you pay attention. You may see und make your choice of ze conseqvences… No, no, no. Not that kind of movie. This is scale model building in the Little Workshop and we are all peaceful here.The only screams are when a fly walks over a fresh paint job. I have…
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Modeller’s Pixellation
If you’re a digital photographer you’ll know what pixellation is; the blocky nature of photos that have been taken at small resolution and blown up large. It’s present in every digital picture if you go down far enough to look for it, but disappears once you step back. It’s a good way of thinking of…
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The Little Workshop – Colourful Guilt
Some modelers keep a stash of unbuilt kits in closets – these probably reassure them, much like a giant hoard of gold comforts the dragon Fafner in Wagner’s Ring cycle. I can see a few of the curled around them huffing fire… I, too, have a modest stash but I am working like Siegfried to…
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The Green Mat Boys
I am starting to think that I am underprivileged – with more possessions than I can use, more food than I can eat, and more booze than I can survive…but still missing a vital tool for model kit building. I do not own a green mat. Everyone else on the Little World seems to have…
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The Complete Story Of…Sin Five
” Well? Where is it? Where’s the last part of the title? We paid for the whole damn title…” I’ll get round to it eventually…but first a word about sloth for modellers. The word is – slow down. No sense rushing a modelling job. Slow and steady wins the race. A good job well begun…
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The Little Workshop – Hoarding
Like the people who write school history books in Moscow, I often wish I could predict the past. I could make some sense out of the things that I have retained for either far too long or not quite long enough… Of course, some of the people reading this post will laugh at me. I…
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