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The Stash Sale Guide
Or how to do yourself either a lot of good or a serious injury… Stash sales are going on all the time – people decide to thin their collection of unbuilt kits for many reasons. Some need the money – some need the space – some need relief from the pressure of family expectations. Or…
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Is it Puttering Or Pottering?
I mean the faffing about that you do in between builds. The tidying up of the workshop and the sharpening of tools. The filling of thinner bottles and the tossing out of dried-up paint. The time when you blow down the air compressor tank and then have to wash the floor. When you vacuum up…
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Better Is The Enemy Of Good
Just as happier is the enemy of happy. Once you introduce comparison you have picked a rotten apple off the tree and are headed out of Eden. Because you have discovered that there is something you don’t have and that something is MORE. Were you happy with your food, you would not be hungry for…
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Douglas Skyray F4D – Part Two – Peacetime Colours
Or at least as peaceful as a Cold War aircraft could get… I am always happy to see military aircraft in bright colours – the yellow wings of the pre-war US Navy – the dazzling squadron codes of the pre-war RAF – the bright stripes of the pre-war Italians. Because brightly coloured aircraft are not…
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Geezers
Pilots, aircrew, figures…whatever you prefer to call them. They were once included with all scale model aircraft kits – now they are rarely seen. The only reason my RCN Grumman Tracker has them is that it is a very old stash kit. The quality of the mouldings is marginal, but far surpasses those moulded in…
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Will You Take Soup?
I note from a website that there will be a number of categories of competition in our Big Local Scale Model Exhibition 67 in fact. These are major divisions and subdivisions therefrom. No-one need feel unwelcome, and there is a good chance that they will go home with a prize. Who could complain? Well, not…
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Dornier Do 27 – Part Four – Dror
Hebrew word for ” freedom ” or ” sparrow “. I favour the latter meaning when applied to this little Dornier observation aircraft. They were active in the IDF between 1964 and 1981 – a very active period. The internet says they were initially attached to the delightfully-named ” flying camel ” squadron. Observation, liaison,…
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Is There A Permanent Museum Of Scale Modelling Anywhere?
I’ve been fortunate enough to see scale models of different things in military museums all over the world. I suppose there were a few in North America when I was a kid, but most of the ones I remember have been seen in Britain and on the continent. There are a few here in Australia,…
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What Do You Call That?
I call it finished, friend. It’s a scale model kit that I bought with my birthday money. I got all the paints I needed for it, read the instructions, and planned the paint scheme. I consulted the internet to see if it was reasonably accurate, but in the end I more or less made it…
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The Aisle Of Nothing
Nothing new, nothing exciting, nothing doing. The saddest aisle in the hobby shop – yet you had so many good times here before. How can it be so dreary? Well, you’ve built most of the kits on the shelves, and it will be a few months before the next order from the wholesaler hits the…
The Little World 