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The Odd Model
Occasionally you encounter a scale model kit that has as its primary characteristic…oddity. It may be a remarkable rendition, well-moulded, with good instructions and a decent decal sheet, but the basic thing is so strange as to make you, and most of the buying public, shy away. It is the kit that sits on the…
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What’s Brown And Sticky?
A stick. Now that we’ve gotten the classic dad joke off the board, we can continue to the real topic of this post: the cocktail stick. Also known as the wooden skewer, satay stick, or kebab stick, this thin bamboo or wood shaft is available in any grocery store or Asian shop. Bundles of a…
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When People Are Determined To Be Happy
You have to work hard to break the spell. One of my hobby clubs meets in two separate places; a public library and my photo studio. It is fortnightly schedule that lets us have an outing somewhere each week. Another club offers a delightful morning mid-week. I need never lack for amusement. This camaraderie is…
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What Do You Do When It All Starts?
Starts to go pear-shaped… Make cider, possibly. Or begin to panic. Panic is always a good choice as it gets the circulation going nicely. And you get a lot more done when you are screaming. Some kit builds progress well – they are logical procedures that flow from one to another as the structure matures.…
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Scale Model Puzzlement
And not the jig-saw kind. I mean the sense of uncertainty and curiosity that arises when you see certain aspects of our hobby. Here is a list of head-scratchers:
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Norcanair DC-3 – Part Four – Trying To Read The Pictures
As soon as you decide to change a scale model kit from what the manufacturer has given you in the box, you should be cautious. What did the real thing look like? Hopefully like the mouldings in the box. What was the finish and what were the markings? Well, if it isn’t on the decal…
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Norcanair DC-3 – Part Three – A Return To Sanity
One can only build obscure European designs from the 1930’s so long… Eventually your gall bladder starts to complain. There is only so much weird and ugly that it can take. A French bomber in the block-of-flats style tends to stretch the imagination past the snapping point – eventually you have to return to reality…
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Norcanair DC-3 – Part Two – The Inside Seats
Very few paying passengers opt for the back porch seats on the Norcanair DC-3 flights over northern Saskatchewan. At least not after October. Everyone wants to stay inside huddled round the wood stove. To this end I have adapted ten seats gleaned from a Heinkel airliner of the 30’s. The expensive people get armrests and…
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If I Knew Then What I Know Now
I probably woulda forgotten it. I will have to be satisfied with what I am learning. some of the lessons are easy and some of them need to be scraped off the floor. I do watch other people at work on the model bench and on the YouTube screen. I am aware that the latter…
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A Club Day Need Not Make Progress
If you go to your scale model club expecting that your day will be one of production and artistry… Oy, have you got the wrong vampire… Your club visit is, perforce, a visit to a society of like-minded individuals. The business of scale building is your excuse to go in the door, but you need…
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