Category: workflow
-
Yotta And Relse
Yotta do this, build those, watch that. Yotta… Relse. Relse you won’t be keeping up, or getting value, or…or…or… Or living your life the way the way Yotta and Relse have it planned out. They’re in the business of controlling you, even as they fail to control themselves. Advice and scolding are their tools of…
-
A Pause Refreshes
And not just in the goffer trade. We all need to stop, wait, turn away, or find another thing to do occasionally – if we are not to burn out or become blasé about scale modelling. I have spent a month away from serious modelling – turning my attention to another hobby: photography. I’ve made…
-
No Kittens Were Harmed In The Making Of This Kit
But it was not for want of trying. Pets and scale model kits would be a combination made in Heaven, if Heaven involved a great deal of inconvenience and anger. Anyone who has seen a long-haired cat walk over a half-rigged biplane will know exactly what I mean. If you factor in the static electricity,…
-
Tupolev Tu-2 – Part Three – No Fill Nowhere
Watching a friend struggle with a small-run Czech model of a P-38 Lightning has been a sobering experience. Every corner of the model as it has been constructed from tiny sub-assemblies has been filled with white plastic putty. I don’t know which one he is using, but I hope it is economical. The mutterings have…
-
As Al Capone Said…
” Dis organisation is moider. “ I have lost yet another major part from a new kit. I doubt it will be found and I do not want to buy another kit for just one part. So it is out with the old Pinkysil silicone moulding rubber and some resin – I will copy the…
-
Late Night Modelling
A doom-laden exercise. Unless you are building an Aurora ” Famous Monsters ” kit you’ll be making trouble for yourself. As modellers we have routines and patterns that govern our lives. You just try walking past the hobby shop and not going in to see if there are kits on the shelves. You will be…
-
Norcanair Bristol Freighter – Part Five – Winging It
At a certain point in the build, your new airplane becomes a nuisance. Up until then, it is a manageable fuselage, some tailplanes, and a pair of wings. Or many wings, if you are making a bi or tri-plane. All the parts can be kept in the original box. When the erection stage comes around,…
-
When A Whim Pays Off
And I don’t mean just chasing ladies down the street… I had a whim, based upon a Christmas present. I’d received two lithium-ion batteries for the Ryobi 18+ system from the wife. They were intended to help me mow the studio lawns with an electric mower. All clear so far. Being Temu products, we decided…
-
MiG 3 – Part Two – Can O’ Worms Canopy
You have to confront your fears as they come up. Or run away. I have been dreading the missing/broken/spoiled canopy situation ever since my first cement fingerprints on a P-47. I hasten to add, that was when I was seven – I now glue the little beggars on with PVA glue and all is serene.…
-
Can You Wait Too Long?
I suspect you can… And I am not writing about the 5 hr delay between when your family asks you whether you are ready…you standing at the door jiggling the car keys…and when they actually get in the vehicle. No, I mean between stages of a scale model build. Here are the reasons why I…
The Little World 