Category: Scale Models
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Going Into Business Sale
Not as common as the opposite – the ” going out of business ” sale, but infinitely more useful to all concerned. I’ve seen both types and from both sides of a sales counter and I much prefer the former to the later. The Chinese have a commercial tradition that says the first customer in…
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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 Nakajima Nate
Or Nakajima Ki-27 if you want to be technical. This one slipped through the studio without being photographed on the sprues – but that happens sometimes when you get distracted and are anxious to start doing something. It was a Sunday afternoon visit to an old hobby shop that started it – the shop is…
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No Stash
Gasp! Shock! Horror! What kind of monster would say that? No stash? No collection of model kits carefully stored for the future? No hours spent gloating over future happiness or profit? What sort of world…? Well, a world of immediacy – of freshness – of learning and instant gratification. A chance to be a kid…
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The New Airbrush Debuts
The new Mr. Hobby Procom WA airbrush has been on the hose for over a week now and a variety of material has flowed through the nozzle – time for first impressions report. The facility of dialing the air pressure up or down through the gun with a small knob under the colour cup is…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Seven – Aw Shit…
Well there we was just driving along heading back to Missoula, and all of a sudden there was this damn noise. We knew it couldn’t be anything good, so we stopped. We were right. The Minicraft 1931 Ford Model A has come to a halt by the side of the road. It has been a…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Five – Did I Come Here To Dio?
No, you came here yesterdio…* Well, I am going to have a model, instead of a pile of parts in a box. It has been staring me out of countenance for three years and I am finally getting to grips with it. And as these things go, the grip gets just that little bit more…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Three – A Rolling Chassis
I was always surprised as a kid to read of motor cars being supplied in body-less form. It seemed like selling skeletons – frightening and unsatisfying. I had never seen a motor car in the 1950’s stripped from its chassis – and in a few years it would have been impossible to separate a unibody…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part One – The Elephant In The Stash
If you have a room, you have an elephant. It doesn’t matter whether it is a real room with a real elephant, or a scale model one. Somewhere there will be a problem that no-one mentions. In my case the pachyderm has been a Minicraft 1:16 scale model of a 1931 Ford two-door sedan. It…
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” Well, I’d ‘A Done It Better…”
Keep your ears open at the next exhibition you go to – you stand a fair chance of hearing that phrase passed back and forth amongst the strollers. And the funny thing is that it doesn’t matter what is being exhibited; paintings, scale models, photographs, pottery, or hot rod cars…Ida is still going to be…
The Little World 