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English Electric Lightning – Part One – Sad Box Special
Yet another orphan of the storm – a tattered, neglected box at the back of a shelf. An old decal sheet. An outdated model. Just my meat. The inner plastic bag was sealed and every part was there. And I have never built a Lightning before. This is a one of the classic early series…
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The Third-Party Direct Hearsay Evidence
That you read once, but can’t remember where. You know, the absolute shining truth that is too good to repress… The sort of tale that you tell to the other modellers around the table as they cut and glue, enhancing your status as the expert who has seen it all. With a bit of luck…
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The Profiteer’s Stash
The very word ” profiteer ” is a red rag for certain political minds, and has been used to justify no end of malice in the past. It has been heard to crop up in the scale model world, as well. Yet, every one who buys and builds kits has to recognise that there is…
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Art Thou Too Fussy, Friend?
Is thy hobby becoming a fiend upon thy shoulders? Should thee push away the PE fret and stop fretting? Is there happiness in a flat cardboard box? In short, are you taking it all to seriously? Have you gone past the fun and arrived at the work…and paid a swingeing price for it? I have…
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Chinese Flying Animal – Part Three – Inside Out
This time the I-16 will be built to show off the exquisite engine inside The Soviet version had the side panels on and all the work was invisible. To facilitate this the sub-assemblies can be largely built up before they have to go inside the fuselage – a very welcome design feature. It is never…
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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.…
The Little World 