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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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Hangar Time
The second week of being in the hangar with my right wheel off is just finishing – though I am happy to say that I am not having antibiotics flushed through the hydraulic lines this week. You have no idea how awkward it is to go to the can when you have to drag a…
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The Little Workshop – Part Two – The Bare Chassis
Having grasped myself firmly by the collar and demanded that I pay attention, I can come to the point of individual rules. I have a very threatening manner when I catch myself fooling around… a. You have your own interests and goals – you must build for these, and not for the demands of others.…
The Little World 