Category: Scale Models
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Envy Is As Envy Does…Sin Seven
We’ve all heard of peer pressure but really that term is more applicable to our last sin…Envy. What envy generally does, is peer. It peers into catalogs, peers into other people’s mail, peers over the fence, peers over shoulders. It is never happy with what it sees…because what it sees is someone else with something…
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Look At Me Look At Me!…Sin Six
Hey, you! I said look at me! Look at the model I made! Look at the train layout I made! Look at the dollhouse I made! Ain’t I the most fabulous thing you’ve ever seen? Disregard the fact that the model battleship is a kit and the only skill I have shown is not gluing…
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Build The Stash
A pause in the litany of sin today – It’s my birthday and I thought you deserved a little variety in the column. Back to the grind tomorrow… I am a relatively recent returnee to the hobby of model kit building – though I have been whacking away at scratchbuilt structures and repurposed die-casts for…
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The Complete Story Of…Sin Five
” Well? Where is it? Where’s the last part of the title? We paid for the whole damn title…” I’ll get round to it eventually…but first a word about sloth for modellers. The word is – slow down. No sense rushing a modelling job. Slow and steady wins the race. A good job well begun…
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Greedy Little Swine…Sin Four
Greed is a deadly sin. The definition of greed is therefore a wonderful tool with which to manipulate people – like the word ‘racist ‘, the person who first wields it in modern debate has a distinct advantage – their opponent has then to expend ten times the amount of effort to disprove it that…
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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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