Category: Organisation
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Are Your Models Getting Enough Exposure?
I don’t mean in the sunshine – most plastic kits do badly when the temperature rises. I mean in your home, workplace, club, or other places. Are you hiding your light under a bushel? Do you need to show off a little? Once a year you can display in the WASMex show. Your audience will…
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You Really Do Need Two Pairs Of Cutters.
I should have laughed at myself for writing that header a few years ago. I had just re-started in scale kit building and had purchased a Ustar tool kit with knife, cutter, sandpaper blocks, etc. I still have most of it and most of it still works. What more could you want? Well, you could…
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Do What You Can
With what you have – where you are. This may have been Teddy Roosevelt’s line or it might have been from an earlier writer. Since I just typed it, it’s mine now. You are free to use it as you will. You have a kit in front of you – for which you may have…
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Modelling True To Yourself
Relax – there will be no hippie touchy-feely stuff. I’ve written before about trying out different types of modelling to see what you most enjoy. A car, a ship, an airplane, a rocket, and a tank give you a broad look at what is out there. Okay, there are trucks and figures and trains as…
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If You Have A Genuine Talent Or Gift
There are no end of cheap how-to books urging you to make money from it. If something is a genuine earner, this should present itself to you in no uncertain terms, and early on. If you find yourself scheming and convincing yourself, you are very likely lying. Many talents do not lend themselves to money…
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The Box Office, The Cast, And The Audience
Which is the most important part of the theatre? If you know, tell me. I am trying to decide the same thing about the modelling exhibitions that are held annually in Perth. Whether they are of cars, boats, trains, planes or houses, they all have essentially three components; those who show, those who they show…
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Getcher
Getcher act together, getcher kit started, getcher butt in action. Just getcher… It is no good looking at a box on a shelf. Before there is a box on a trolley that contains YOU, start building the kit you’ve bought. You’ll be gone soon enough – do something positive now, while your fingers move and…
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As Al Capone Said…
” Dis organisation is moider. “ I have lost yet another major part from a new kit. I doubt it will be found and I do not want to buy another kit for just one part. So it is out with the old Pinkysil silicone moulding rubber and some resin – I will copy the…
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When Are You Actually Done?
Well, some people would say when you put your half-completed model out on the road and the council sweeper brushes it up into the bin. That’s DONE! A little less desperate than that for most of us. Perhaps when the last part goes off the sprue tree and onto the rest of the plastic? Perhaps…
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You Lose Points…
Whenever I see a contest that starts with the premise that you have a certain number of points to lose – and the winner will be the one who loses least – I lose interest. If I want to be belittled, I have a family at home. No need to do it in a drafty…
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