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How Do You Cope When They Don’t Approve Of Your Model?
Or worse; how do you cope when they do? If you submit your scale models to public scrutiny at exhibitions you invite criticism. It may be constructive and helpful or snide and miserable – but you have no control of it after your model slides onto the display table. Decide long before then whether you…
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OPPs Beat Apps
We older Australians are often thought to be past it. Or more accurately, past IT. Yet every day we confound the young with our imaginative use of the computer and the winsome way that we reset the modem. They never know what is coming. In my case I do not play much with telephones and…
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Sprue Spray?
It was decades before I figured it out. In fact, Airfix and Revell knew it long before me. But it finally took Phil Flory to wise me up. The 5 ” P’s “: Paint Piddly Parts on the Plastic Prior to Parting them. Oh Gosh – I counted wrong. That’s 6 ” P’s “. Of…
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Pigs To The Wrong Market
Will never make bacon. My tour down the airplane aisle of my local hobby shop showed very little new but I noticed that they have ordered and arranged the kits according to manufacturer again. And yet again the section of eastern European ex-soviet unaccountables is fully stocked. I do not think they’ve had a fresh…
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Scale Modelling As Moral Reform
Salvation Through Styrene All you need is a 1/35 Elmer Gantry…And for those of you who are puzzled, google Burt Lancaster and ICM Models. If you still do not get the joke enclose $ 5 in a plain envelope and I will explain it to you. Do you need Moral reform(TM)? Of course you do.…
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Out Of Stock
So why in website? To make us think you are a bigger retailer than you really are? To get us revved up? To taunt us? Or is your website the equivalent of a dusty cupboard? Unable to keep it clean, do you exhibit the whole as an artefact? So why do you not list all…
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You Cannot Eat Or Drive For Others
And it is pretty difficult to model for them, too. I have come to the conclusion that I can deal with only my own dinner – it is foolish to cast my eyes on the plates of others, and damned presumptuous to tell them what they can or cannot…should or should not…eat. There has been…
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You Can Be Damned
So can I, and all we need to do is pick up the wrong pot of paint. The colour question has divided people for centuries… and no more so than in the hobby shop. The number of paints available to camouflage toy airplanes is exceeded only by the number of people who claim to know…
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Too Many Decal Systems
Too many to make your hobby shop choice an easy matter. And that’s the way it is with scale model chemicals – whether that is paint, cement, or polish – in the 21st century. We might have passed cheerful childhoods with tube cement, tinned paint, and a bottle of turpentine, but we ain’t going to…
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