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Can You Hear The Cheaping?
No, it’s not the sparrows on the lawn or the dry wheel bearings on the Toyota…it’s the cheaping noise the modeller makes when they want to do something frugally. Put another way, it’s the sound a penny makes when you pinch it. No, this will not be a post on how to crochet a Sunderland…
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Well, I’m Alright…But What About You?
And the topic with which I treat today is the business of after – not before or during. Specifically, what are you going to do with the models that you build? I’m okay. I spent up on Billy bookcases from IKEA when they were cheap and I wasn’t and have enough space for my 1:18th…
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” There Should Be An Enormous Kerboom…”
As Marvin the Martian was wont to say…and if my mazel runs to form this year that is exactly what I might produce in my Little Workshop. You see I have taken to collecting solvents and thinners. It started with a simple bottle of Tamiya X-20A and seems to have burgeoned. The advent of lacquer…
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Chance Vought Corsair – Part Two – New Model Just Release!
You buy now. We ruv you rong time. Someone told me I was getting cynical in my old age. I have my high school yearbook and the entry with my photo says I have an ironic wit. I am not an old cynic – I was a smart arse in 1966. All this because I…
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The Same Kit Again
I have yet to make the same kit again in my current modelling – but it came close with one of the Airfix offerings. Fortunately between Mk I and Mk IV a great deal had happened so the two models are quite different looking, The real problem would be if one tried to make a…
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The Wrong Light
When I used to sell Epson inkjet printers in a camera store I was frequently asked about colour management. It’s a topic that makes or breaks photographers and more often causes tears than smiles. Fortunately at the time when some manufacturers introduced even more complex methods of operation, a few saw the need for a…
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The Michael Jackson Effect
In case you are worried that I am going to moonwalk, get my nose bobbed, or start a petting ranch…relax. The only way I intend to emulate Michael Jackson is to wear one glove. And I am not even going to wear it in public – just in the privacy of my Little Workshop. I…
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The Speed Build – Good Or Bad?
As a kid I was always trying for more models to build. But as a kid I was money-limited – so what I could afford had to fill in the long dry stretches between Christmas, birthday, or other gift-giving occasions. If a relative tuned nasty and presented me with socks…or a card with their best…
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The Little Workshop – Part Three – To Err Is Human
I never make misteakes. Now that you’ve recovered yourself, I can tell you that I was just teasing. I deliberately misspelled ” nevur ” in that first sentence for comic effect. I expect people will start to laugh any week now. Botching up things is a fact of life for a lot of us. We…
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Can It Be Done Better? Watch…
I have written in another post about Occam’s Airbrush but it was not until I treated myself to the live tutorial series that Phil Flory has produced on basic airbrushing that I realised how many devious pathways of error I have actually trod. And this is just a year or so after getting the sprayer……
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