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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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The New Build From A New Maker
This begins a series of posts that deal with building a model from a maker who is new to me – Special Hobby from the Czech Republic. It’s not the first Czech model I’ve tried – I did build two different AZ models recently – but I am desperately curious to see if this is going…
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Too Much Of A Good Thing
Waterslide decals were the wonder of my childhood. I only encountered them in the model kits I built, and since these were kits in the 1950’s, they weren’t all that good. They were yellowed, cracked, thick, lumpy, and inaccurate. They had margins that looked like stranded jellyfish. They took about a half hour to soak…
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Stacking The Shelves
Let me preface this post by saying that I spent 40 years being professionally fussy and organised for myself and my patients and then 8 years trying to cope with someone else’s retail stock chaos after that – 48 years of honourable organisation without tipping over into clinical OCD. It was good preparation for my…
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Moving Time
My childhood was punctuated at very short intervals by the arrival of Bekins, Allied, or Mayflower moving vans…and we whisked off to another portion of North America. Eventually we whisked off to Australia, and as the airline that brought us here went out of business, we stayed. I am happy to say that the moves…
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Leave Us Not
Leave us not get the impression that The Little World is only airplanes – it is far more, as the ever-growing storage racks at my studio will attest. There are cars, trains, planes, houses, shops, caravans, and dinosaurs. Also stage sets, movie studios, horses, porcelain dogs, and a resident gecko that lays eggs. The heading…
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The Journey Begins
And I scramble about for the Wacom pen and dive for the hard drive icon. So many things to say and do…
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