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Republic P-47 – Part Four – Value For Money
It’s not cool to be cheap. Every commercial website or advertisement makes it clear to you that you only qualify for the admiration of the world if you spend money. The more you spend, the better you are regarded. This is a wonderful success on the part of the advertising culture – it used to…
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Republic P-47 – Part Three – A Week Later
A week would appear to be a long time in the Little Workshop. Long enough to build and paint the Hobby Boss Republic P-47 and push it off the assembly line. I think I need to remind myself that I’m not under government contract here… The assembly was just as easy as I thought –…
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Republic P-47 – Part Two – Is This A Thing?
Well, the insides of the Hobby Boss P-47 kit were just as good as I expected – with the top-and-bottom fuselage construction and the crisp mouldings. The sprue trees were well-planned, and even if I do not use the wing tanks, I will have them for a future build. Basic fuselage has a very peculiar radio…
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Where Is Planning Committee?
Is there a Central Planning Committee for the Little World? Perhaps we should have a conspiratorial organisation that meets in secret bunkers under impregnable mountains? With guard dogs, and henchmen and girls in tight dresses… What would the Central Committee decide? a. What things get modelled in which scale. At present the world divides off…
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I Shall Show You Ze Instruments…
Ve haf vays of making you pay attention. You may see und make your choice of ze conseqvences… No, no, no. Not that kind of movie. This is scale model building in the Little Workshop and we are all peaceful here.The only screams are when a fly walks over a fresh paint job. I have…
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BGC – Part 2 – The RCA Are Having None Of it
It turns out I was reading my history wrong – the Royal Canadian Artillery in WWll weren’t the ones with the Bren gun carriers – there were airfield defence regiments and detachments for this purpose. I still get to keep the Brens but I just have to make different unit patches. The really nice thing…
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If it Was Blue…Who Could?
Fans of Rowan and Martin may recognise that line, and bless Dan and Dick for the joy they brought us. But colour theory is not as simple as that – particularly if you are going to venture into the Little World. I did just that tone afternoon when I tried to organise my Tamiya and…
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The Stash – Part Two – When The Time Comes…
Ah, but when does the time come? Answer me that… If we admit first off that we have a stash of unbuilt models we can proceed. The model stash may be actual kits, homebuilt kits, scratchbuild ideas, or piles of raw materials. It may contain dead models from long ago ready for revision or cheap junk…
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The Exact Thing Or Just The Thing…
If you are going to make a model of something – whether it is an aircraft, a car, a train, or a house – you are going to have to answer some unasked questions. Exactly who asks these and what your answer should be is up to you… a. Why am I building this? Dive…
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The Little Workshop – The Hanging Motor
When I was training as a dental student we encountered something in our first two weeks at university – two weeks before any other students even started – that has remained with me ever since – the hanging motor. I’d never seen one before but the utility of it became immediately evident. The motors came…
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