Category: Scale Models
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Lust – Pant, Pant, Pant…Sin Three
It’s hard to focus on lust as a Little World sin if you adhere to the Big World definition of it as purely sexual. Granted there are some pretty erotic little statuettes sold to the Japanese market but then you have to remember that these are the people who went mad over a man in…
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Anger Management, Damn It…Sin One
Funny that – the business of selling anger management courses…It’s all the rage these days in the Big World, though perhaps the word ‘ rage ‘ is a bad choice. Still, everywhere you look people are being urged to bottle up, calm down, chill out, and back down – at the same time that the…
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Well, Sheet…Now What’s Gone Wrong?
The heading image is fuzzy, out of focus, over coloured, and frightening. That actually describes my mind on a lot of occasions – federal elections, tax time, family festivals, etc – but in this instance it was actually vital – I need decals for my new aircraft. And my go-to solution for them appeared to…
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What’cha Got Cookin’ ?
Ansons…I couldn’t get the plain variety so this is the one with resins…I mean raisins… Currently it is raisin’ my blood pressure. I was nearly right by the time I got to spraying the grey undercoat on the ship. I’d filled and sanded as much as I thought I could decently do, and resisted the…
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The Resin Problem
Note: This is the second time this post has appeared in The Little World – I miscued it yesterday. If you are confused, join the club… Let’s hope the cunning plan works, Baldrick. Well, the Special Hobby 1:72 Anson is progressing, but the journey has been one of some rather unpleasant discoveries: a. The interior…
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A Happy Landing At RAAF Cunoath Downs
The ship is down safely – sitting in its own box all complete – ready for transfer to the WWII forward base at RAAF Cunoath Downs. It’s a secret airfield in the middle of the Western Australian bush. Secret only in the sense that no-one goes past it on the road because it’s too far…
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The Windows Of The World…
The windows of the songwriter’s world may be covered in raindrops but the windows of the Little World’s modelmakers generally exhibit glue, paint, and fingerprints. It did not use to bother me, but I’ve grown more childish as I have matured and I now find it an annoyance. The solution to the problem still seems…
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Patchy Is As Patchy Does
And no-one is patchier than me… I watched a YouTube post some time ago from a modeller who was making extremely precise masks for spray painting by using his inkjet printer. I believe he was printing on a self-adhesive paper and planned to stick this onto plastic models. He was very concerned about scaling the…
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The Brown Sound
Well that was interesting. Yesterday’s post about painting the underside of the Northrop Delta 1D was all very well until I decided to mask it and turn it over for the topcoat. The masking went well – various pads and rolls of masking tape squeezed and folded into the crannies underneath – the last few…
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The Bluebird Of Happiness-So-Far
The undersides of aircraft are pretty interesting places. If you are going to be flying in one, you are intensely interested in whether or not oil, petrol, or hydraulic fluid is leaking out down there – you’ll be even more concerned if this is also the case when it is at 4000 ft. For the…
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