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Do Not Tidy Up
Or do tidy up. Choose whichever piece of gratuitous advice you like – the price is the same. There is a danger to the business of tidying up a hobby workshop – you may succeed. Then you have a tidy workshop and nothing actually doing. This is a very sad situation. I’m sitting here on…
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Heavier Than You Need To Make It
And lighter than you can lift… Have a look at the tools in your workshop – whatever your shop produces. It doesn’t matter whether it is turning out toy airplanes or plate armour ( and I know workshops that do just that…), there are tools there that are built like a rolling mill in Henry…
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Canadair Sabre – Part Four – A Delicate Matter
I am going to broach a delicate subject in a sensitive manner – surely a new thing for me. I normally try to make a point in an argument with a 17 pounder round. I am going to criticize someone for a product I have tried – in the full knowledge that I may be…
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Canadair Sabre – Part Three – Read The Label On The Jar, Dummy…
Observe the heading image. Four pots of Mr. Color lacquer paint. All of them say ” silver ” somewhere on the label. One, however, also says ” trouble “. The saga started when I painted the Airfix Brewster Buffalo earlier in the year. I had two pots of Mr Color Super Silver – No. 159…
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Canadair Sabre – Part One – The Bargain Table
It’s always good to set limits for yourself – to make a set of rules about what you’re going to do, Then when you do just the opposite you can wallow in guilt. I wasn’t going to spend money at the 2019 WASMEX exhibition because I was going to save it all for Melbourne’s show.…
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Good Morning Walter – Part 12 – Watch The Birdie…
You’re lucky, Walter. You’re young, with good eyes, and small and healthy and can bend down without any of your joints hurting. Us old guys are not so fortunate. When we lean over a lot, it sometimes takes two other people to unfold us. I mention this because I’ve been photographing the scale models in…
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The Modelling Station
I am in constant state of admiration when I see the modelling stations of truly professional scale builders. The green cutting mats, the neat rows of paint bottles, and the tools lined up in order of size and/or political opinion. It just thrills me and makes me want to put on a pair of heavy…
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OO, O, and N
You’ve often read me squawking about the disparity in scales that the makers of hobby items have foisted upon us over the years. There is no one universal scale or size for the little worlds we build. Some plastic modellers do not find this a hazard at all – all they look for is a…
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What Is It With Rockets?
Every model airplane kit I seem to have purchased recently has come equipped with rockets under the wings. Generally they are the 60 lb. British type on rails, though there is a pair of three-tube US versions as well. I must have two dozen of the things sitting on the shelf – so many, in…
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Vought Vindicator – Part Three – The Yellow Arrives
I am starting to formulate a style in my model building – in fact a number of styles, depending upon the scale and type of model under construction: a. Large model buildings are done from sketches and photographs with a fair degree of leeway in the design. I stick to simple lines and art deco…
The Little World 