Category: Self Reliance
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Start, Ya Bastard
You know, I am unable to convince some of my North American readers that there really is a product on the market in Australia called just that? Oh ye, of little faith… As it is, the expression serves perfectly as a reminder to scale modellers that the kit on the shelf is just a box…
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The Courage To Brush
I once lacked the courage to brush. It was in my early days as a scale modeller – before I popped the top on my first bottle of Revell paint and recoilled from the heady fumes. I was frightened to lay brush to plastic for fear of spoiling the model. The phase didn’t last long…
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If You Only Have One Computer
And only add one program… Add Photoshop Elements. Whatever your machine will cope with – whatever the current iteration is. Go add an old version if that is all that you can get. It is a mom-and-pop editing program for Mac or Windows that lets the consumer use simplified commands and tools to make nearly…
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Say What You Will About the Design
And debate as much as you like how well it might have done against a Tiger I… I still want one – as the shopping vehicle for my local IGA car park. The bays in the centre have been painted on the asphalt in such a way as to get the most cars – and…
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Tunnel Of Love
And who could resist… I know I wasn’t supposed to lean over the table to take the picture – for a very good reason. All the models under me were in danger. This was the case on my own table out in the main hall – the inability of the public to look at anything…
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Been There?
Done that? Going to do it again? I’ll bet I am. I will take a model to an exhibition and it will break en-route. Or I will bring it home and the same will occur. Or it will just collapse on the show table from a combination of stress and snarkiness. No exhibitor should neglect…
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There Is A Difference Between Seeing The Show
And being the show. The AGM for the big scale model exhibition is just about to occur. Last year I attended out of curiosity and was tempted to have my say. I’ve had a year to wonder whether I should have kept quiet. This time I shall sip a coffee or beer and just listen.…
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Beat The Designer
Outwit Fokker, de Havilland, and Sopwith. If you take photos of WW 1 aircraft, you likely miss out on some of the best colour if you fail to use a flash. The design of a bi or tri-plane means that the fuselage is covered by the upper wings – any shots taken from a standing…
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Scratch-building Pack
We often encounter notes on short-run kit instructions that tell us to scratch-build some part. It may be a strut or part of an interior. Perhaps a flap or plate or even part of the undercarriage. Indeed there can be kits where the parts are provided but are of such poor quality that you are…
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Several Hours Later…
You have a variety of outcomes. a. Drinking – intoxication, lethargy, nausea, shame. b. Weeding – a clean garden. c. Reading – knowledge or entertainment. d. Phone scrolling – vapidity, tiredness. e. Eating – biliousness. f. Scale modelling – pride, satisfaction. Well, it is your time after all…
