Category: Self Reliance
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Pick On Someone Your Own Size!
And your own scale! Do you have models in your collection that are all different sizes? I do. Are they all different scales? Generally, no. This may not be a problem for you if you are a widespread modeller. But if you want a consistent collection that can tie together, you need to discipline yourself.…
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Getting Away With It
Note: I did not write ” cleanly ” at the end there. There are always consequences. A friend has speculated that a mathematical formula should be worked out to tell our spouses how much the new kit has cost. I applaud a scientific mind and sense of honesty and will mention it in his eulogy.…
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The Dead Blog
There is nothing sadder than a dead bird – unless it is a dead scale model blog. I have followed several of these, though not expecting their demise. They started well, or were going along great guns when I first encountered them…and then just stopped. I cannot know why. Dread tells me that some of…
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Can You Be Nostalgic…
About someone else’s past? Can you appropriate memories and images? In most societies this is severely frowned upon – like the outroar if a non-indigenous person were to paint themselves with dust and dots. Or a Canadian Prime to apply shoe polish to his face and hands for a frat party. Big explosion! So how…
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Where Is Your Thunder?
Did someone steal it? Did you give it away, again? Did you look into a modelling magazine or go to a website and find someone has beat you to the punch with their rendition of a scale model kit? Is the Framley-Hopkins ” Regurgitator ” biplane in your stash now just ashes in the box?…
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What To Do When You Can’t Get It
Relax, lady. This is about scale modelling – not sex. What do we do when the scale model magazine shows a wonderful new range of after-market parts to detail a kit and everyone else in the world can get it except us? Stuck on the edge of the Indian Ocean way out past where the…
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How Far Down Do The Rabbits Go?
And I don’t mean on the internet. How far down does a scale modeller pursue the business – at what point does the quest for detail stop? How about weathering and appearance? Where does the line of diminishing returns cross that of fatigue? I think it differs with the genre and scale of the models,…
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Never Leave Well Enough Alone
You do not need a Stradivarius to fiddle like mad. You can be dissatisfied to your own satisfaction, and go from there. I looked at tmy new tool wall inside my hobby room and was struck by how sad it all looked. An online search for an alternative turned up nothing good – all the…
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Tasman Airspeed Oxford Mk I – Part Six – French Silver Grey
The Mr Color pot of French silver grey may have started life as a grey – or a silver… I can’t remember which. Over several years it has been topped up with a dash of whichever sliver I have in the airbrush pot as a left-over – and equally be whatever light grey is swirling…
The Little World 