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Tell Me About It
Tell me aaaaaalll about it… And make sure I know that you know, you know? The expert on any subject can derive their knowledge from a number of sources: a. Casual personal experience. b. Deliberate experimentation, c. Extensive research. d. YouTube. a. It is difficult to argue with the first category, unless you dispute the…
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Shelving Your Worries
Or worrying your shelves. Some people are like that… I am currently shelving, boxing, and arranging my scale model collection and discovering why museum staff have a certain look on their faces: that of murderous Tetris players. Every museum worth it’s salt – and that includes private collections – has simultaneously more than it should…
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Bristol Belvedere – Part Two – How Right They Were
This kit has all the appeal of a Revell re-box. The two halves of the fuselage may have been pulled out of the mould while still hot and allowed to cool on a window sill. The result is a progressive rolling distortion that will never allow the parts to join in one cementation I decided…
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Bristol Belvedere – Part One – Dire Warnings
And why I never heed them… This kit appeared in my local hobby shop before I read a review of it. It was reasonably priced, a Vintage Classic, and a type I had never built before. I forked over the cash and took it home. The review was not mealy-mouthed; it said this was the…
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No Box Art
No colour call-out. No decal sheet. No safety instructions. No history of the prototype. Just sprue trees and a basic diagram. If this describes a lot of the kits you buy, congratulations – but only if you got them cheaply. If you paid full price you deserved all the added extras. What good would a…
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We Get What They Got
And if they don’t have it, neither will we. Shopping at the local hobby shops is a good idea. It gives business and employment to local people and keeps vital supplies available to us year-round. Except when it doesn’t. Shops can run dry of all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons – and…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Four – By The End Of The 27th
This year I did not holiday on a coast; neither Gold, Rainbow, Iron, or Mosquito variety – stayed home. And built my AIrfix Christmas kit – as a proper person would. You have turkey, Santa, and Airfix – do not try to better a winning combination. By the end of the 27th the kit was…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Two – Inside The Office
Approaching an aircraft build with trepidation is always disheartening. But some kits beg it – the Czech short-run ones or the Russian re-pops often have too much inside or nothing at all. We have all seen the pilot figure stuck to a post from one side of the fuselage – or worse; nothing whatsoever under…
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Out Of Stock
But always in the catalogue. Sitting there on-line, sneering at you…the kit you want but will never be able to buy. You have no way of knowing whether it is only gone for a week, a month, or a millennium. And you have no indication whether its absence stems from the factory, the wholesaler, the…
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What Did You Make?
Or – if you are still cutting and gluing – what are you making? Is it a little airplane from a kit? A ship? A doll house? A working railway? Good – all you different makers, would you be surprised to realise that you are all making the same thing? What? You are making yourself…
The Little World 