Category: Self Reliance
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Minimalist Modelling
Paint everything white. Corbusier Kits: sheets of foamcore board and you just glue them together in slabs. I have been experimenting with a less complex approach to scale model building these last few months. Not that kit building can ever be truly simple…or for that matter neither can Lego or Meccano work. Doll houses are…
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Who Judges The Fantasy Model?
And how do they do it? Okay, if you are tasked with reproducing a model of a Willy Ley space ship as seen on a 1950’s Disneyland show, it is still fantasy – but the responsibility for the imagination has been taken out of your hands. Ley and Disney are the ones setting the pace…
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Local Shop For the Win!
I can get lucky… My air compressor was acting up. Not able to keep pressure in the tank, it was kicking in to boost very 30 seconds. Very different from when I started with it. I took my troubles to my local shop; Hobbytech in Myaree. The youngest chap on the staff was free so…
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The Toy Makers
Some scale model builders look askance at people who deal with toys – whether these are wooden horses or cast-metal cars or life-like figurines. There is more than a hint of condescension when they are compared to the latest Tamigawafix 1:200 kit of the Prince Of Huddersfield. The one with the 1200 separate parts and…
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Little Christmas World
Not every Little World has fighter planes and tanks – some are dedicated to far more peaceful pursuits. Take for instance the annual Christmas layout a friend and her daughter construct – I should have written daughters, as there are three, but two are now residing elsewhere and I think the constructors are down to…
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Decal Or Not Decal
That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to suffer the agonies of masking tape and airbrush or to take scissors and water and end them. I am in the position of Hamlet every time I look a the colour call-out of a kit. I have the decal sheet in one hand and my heart in…
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The Anthems Of The Modellers
We are a musical hobby… For Revell Plastiklied Plastik, Plastik, Uber Alles Uber alles in your life. When you need a wholesome hobby Grab your glue-pot and your knife. From the sprue-tree to the table, From the spray booth to the trash. Plastik, Plastik, uber alles Uber alles in der stash. For Airfix God Save…
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Drivin’ Miss Crazy
If you ever want to practice your anxiety, I can think of no better exercise than driving somewhere with a scale model in the car. Oh, I hasten to add, that’s a completed model…just tooling home from the hobby shop with a kit in a box plus $ 85 dollars of new paint is no…
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Give Us A Sign!
Or at least a good line drawing. The quality of instruction manuals for our kits is one thing that we often overlook – until we get to the stage of constructing the landing gear or rigging the sails. Then we can look them over as much as we like without being any wiser. Often the…
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Do Not Sell Your Models
Build them. Whether you build them SOOTB, or tricked out with a dozen packets of after-market…build them. Build them painted or plain, weathered or fresh, well or otherwise…but build them. That is why they were made. That is why the designers sat at the drafting board or computer screen until their eyes turned red. That…
The Little World 