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The Complete Story Of…Sin Five
” Well? Where is it? Where’s the last part of the title? We paid for the whole damn title…” I’ll get round to it eventually…but first a word about sloth for modellers. The word is – slow down. No sense rushing a modelling job. Slow and steady wins the race. A good job well begun…
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Greedy Little Swine…Sin Four
Greed is a deadly sin. The definition of greed is therefore a wonderful tool with which to manipulate people – like the word ‘racist ‘, the person who first wields it in modern debate has a distinct advantage – their opponent has then to expend ten times the amount of effort to disprove it that…
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Lust – Pant, Pant, Pant…Sin Three
It’s hard to focus on lust as a Little World sin if you adhere to the Big World definition of it as purely sexual. Granted there are some pretty erotic little statuettes sold to the Japanese market but then you have to remember that these are the people who went mad over a man in…
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Gluttony With Extra Sauce…Sin Two
It’s hard to be a classic glutton when you are trying to make a Little World. Food costs money – money that could be better spent on model kits, strip wood, and dollhouse furniture. Every triple-layer Massiveburger with extra cheese means a pot of paint foregone. A good night out with extra chips costs the…
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Anger Management, Damn It…Sin One
Funny that – the business of selling anger management courses…It’s all the rage these days in the Big World, though perhaps the word ‘ rage ‘ is a bad choice. Still, everywhere you look people are being urged to bottle up, calm down, chill out, and back down – at the same time that the…
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The Seven Deadly Modelling Sins
It’s no good building your own Little World if you cannot write the moral rules for it. But time is precious, so I have decided to take a short cut and borrow seven deadly sins from the church literature of the middle ages and renaissance. These will form a firm basis of what thou shalt…
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The Little Workshop – Hoarding
Like the people who write school history books in Moscow, I often wish I could predict the past. I could make some sense out of the things that I have retained for either far too long or not quite long enough… Of course, some of the people reading this post will laugh at me. I…
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The Mask Of Scale-Model Comedy Is A Mask Of 1:1 Tragedy
And vice versa. And even if you have come to prefer your vice versa, you still have to take time out of your busy round of orgies to deal with the painting on your model airplane, structure, or car. And inevitably you are going to need to mask something off for some reason. Brace yourself…
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” Lemme Tell Ya How To Do It “
Or not, as the case may be. I view a great many internet YouTube postings on a variety of topics. Many of them are concerned with making or doing things, including the Little World activities. Many of them are valuable, even if the presenters are not professional speakers – they show techniques actually being done…
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And So It Begins…
The biggest problem I have encountered so far with the New Special Models 1:72 Northrop Delta 1D has been deciding which model variant to make. Newbies will be puzzled by this but old hands know that fresh kits pull you several ways – and this is not helped by the maker including parts and decals…
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