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Lima Beans And Spinach
Some people like lima beans. Some like spinach. Some cannot stand either vegetable*. If they are in a restaurant it’s easy – they don’t order either. If they are eating at the family table or someone else’s house the problem becomes more difficult. They may have a heaping helping steaming there on the plate and…
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Styrene Broker – Part Two
The scale market’s answer to Madoff and Ponzi. In case you are wondering what the answer should be, ” No ” is safest. Anyone who has seen a pyramid or junk bond scheme in operation will recognise the game as it develops. We’re after a better class of broker here. I have disposed of many…
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Styrene Broker – Part One
Like a stock broker, but smelling of cement, not gin. A recent conversation with another modeller about yet a third hobbyist who is late, led to the question of what will be done with his accumulated scale model production. A great deal of it resides at his former hobby club, and is magnificent, but somewhat…
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Westland Whirlwind – Part Two – Building Someone Else’s Memories
This Westland helicopter model of the late 50’s from Airfix seems to figure largely in the memories of other people. Everyone I have shown the box to seems to have built it back in the day and are scathing about it. I am fresh to the neighbourhood and am starting to feel somewhat wary –…
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The Royal Fly-Under
At the recent coronation of the British king we saw a fly-past by the RAF. Helicopters first, for some obscure reason, then the Red Arrows trailing multicoloured smoke, then a Royal anthem, and then nothing… The RAF may have been booked elsewhere for the day. At least the Royal Navy did them proud. As the…
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Be Prepared To Be Wrong
Those of you who are married will find it a familiar feeling… But making mistakes in scale modelling is slightly different from the errors experienced during marital bliss. For one, they are quieter… And less permanent. You can paint something wrong, or badly, and realise it…and never do it again…without having to hear about it…
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A7 Corsair II – Part Five – On Her Feet
When next you see a charity tin marked ” Italeri “, stop and put a dollar in. They are good people. In particular, they have respect and kindness for builders of their 1:72 aircraft – they always provide decent landing gear and attachment points for gear legs in the engine nacelles, wings, or fuselages. If…
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A7 Corsair II – Part Four – Two-Tone
I puzzled about the white horizontal stabiliser and trailing wing surfaces on this Corsair II when I saw the colour call-out. Of course I was bound to follow the diagram, and as it was the same for most of the variants I knew it was deliberate. Then it struck me – if you did not…
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” The Old Bazaar In Noranda”
Well, they had Sopwith camels for sale… It is as well to have all your ducks in a row and to know where you stand. With clear-cut rules of procedure. To have a definite command structure. It’s the guiding principle of most military organisations. Mind you, it’s a little startling to encounter this first thing…
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Miniature Demicturation
Or ” taking the piss out of someone with the hobby “… I have been guilty of just this – with written articles in my web column and imaginative labels on some of my display models. So far no-one has exploded in rage, but I still have hopes. But have I done so with any…
The Little World 