Category: Organisation
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What To Do When You Can’t Get It
Relax, lady. This is about scale modelling – not sex. What do we do when the scale model magazine shows a wonderful new range of after-market parts to detail a kit and everyone else in the world can get it except us? Stuck on the edge of the Indian Ocean way out past where the…
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” Do Your Research “
This is a buzz phrase used in arguments these days as people trade things they have seen on the internet. Reels, social media posts, and video channels all tell the viewers what to think – sometimes at the expense of thought. ‘Twas always this, from the time that the first caveman told his mate what…
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Buying Your Own Birthday Gifts
And being reimbursed the cost – then presented with the ” surprise ” boxes on the day – is one of the most satisfying forms of gift giving/getting there is. It doesn’t do to be petty about it, or get bashful. Ask directly how much the giver wishes to spend and then go spend it.…
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Never Leave Well Enough Alone
You do not need a Stradivarius to fiddle like mad. You can be dissatisfied to your own satisfaction, and go from there. I looked at tmy new tool wall inside my hobby room and was struck by how sad it all looked. An online search for an alternative turned up nothing good – all the…
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If You Must Trash Your Models
Sadly, scale models do not often last…they may be gone when their builder goes. Few people appreciate the hobby enough to keep all of a collection. Of course this doesn’t include historic models such as those found in Greenwich Maritime Museum or other institutions. But plastic models in a lounge room? Little chance. Before this…
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Dissatisfaction
Is the step-mother of invention. With cheapness as a sibling – how could I resist the temptation to rebuild the modelling desk. The old one featured a wall of Chinese take-away food containers that held tools and materials – they were hot-glued to a sheet of foam board gaffer-taped to the workbench. No expense spared…
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A Pad Of Paper And Box Of Pencils
And the world is yours. Put on your pyjamas, get a hot drink, settle down at the table, and draw up the Universe. It is not blasphemous – Someone Famous did it a long time ago… Don’t draw a layout – that would be too committed – a table upon which you can move the…
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Birthday Boatyard
Bob’s Boatyard, to be precise. Bob is my brother-n-law and a scale model builder as well. Rather than concentrate on plastic models, he devotes part of his retirement time to constructing wooden ship and boat models. It is rarely kit work – Bob builds from plans using wood that he cuts and shapes for himself.…
The Little World 