Category: Scale Model Buildings
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Ungluing The Kit
Or ” Are You Stuck With it? “. A recent question on Phil Flory’s YouTube channel about dissolving old glue on a model kit – really old 1950’s Testor cement – was ably handled by the team of English modellers when they advised the questioner to put it away for another 50 years and wait…
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The Museum Approach
Go to your local museum – it doesn’t matter what type you choose; art, science, technology, cars, planes, boats, dolls. If you’ve got an interest, go spark it at the museum. While you are oohing and ahhing at the exhibits, look about you at the facilities. The architecture of a museum can be as interesting…
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Planning Permission Not Needed
Did you realise that when you are the creator of your own Little World that you do not need to admit others to your counsel? That you can act as sole dictator and arbiter of all disputes? It is a sobering thought that can make anyone feel drunk. I experienced it recently while laying out…
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Serious Money For Lighthearted Spenders
When you enter a hobby shop, do you do it with a happy heart? Do you skip in with a Tra La and a happy whistle? Do you greet the proprietor as an old friend? Or do you slink in round the corner of the door and growl at the staff behind the till? Do…
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The Little Old Ladies And Me
No, this is not the confessions of a mature gigolo. I do have it as one of the ambitions on my CV, but so far it has not eventuated – older ladies have standards I rarely meet. The Kama Sutra book is still a theoretical text… But I do manage to hold my own in the…
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How Many?
I live in Perth, Western Australia – the furthest west that you can get before the world resets and it becomes east again. We’re where the wagon train either stops or gets extremely wet.. Our town has sheds, workshops, hobby rooms, garages, and minor factories all over the place – nearly every back yard has…
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Whadaya Want In The Hobby Shop?
A good question – and one the owners of the places would desperately like to have an accurate answer to – there have been enough hobby shops that have foundered upon not being able to answer it. I often wonder if there was a way to have prevented this. Note: I realise that some shops…
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Only Shop At the Hobby Stores That Support Your Politics
Are you a hobbyist? Are you passionate about politics? Do you want to harm anyone who disagrees with you? Well, take our simple questionnaire to your regular hobby shop and find out if they are innocent or guilty: Question One. What do you think about Trump? Question Two. What do you think about BREXIT? Question…
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Modeller’s Memory
We are told that we have all sorts of memory: a. The regular sort that lets you down when you are looking for the car keys. b. Muscle memory that is supposed to guide you to the perfect golf shot or dance step. And it does…it does. As you develop it you find that you…
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Is There A Worse Way To Do It?
Because if there is, I want to know all about it. I love horror stories and the things that people invent to do for themselves in their modelling workshops are no exception. Oh, I don’t mean the accidents and mishaps. I can cut my fingers or spill thinner into the electric fire myself. And who…
The Little World 