Category: workflow
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Worrying Your Way To Better Models
Are your models good enough? Are you good enough? Have you had your daily hour of anxiety? We are constantly being told to stop stressing ourselves – advice that can really depress you. You no sooner sit down and let your jaw muscles sag than someone is leaping at you with a pill or a…
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Do You Deserve Your Fate?
And if you don’t, but get it anyway, who is responsible? Every scale model kit that ever went into a box or bag was put there by people who hoped for something. They aspired to money, admiration, respect, or grudging acceptance. Like a marriage, really, but with sprue trees. Few of us got a decal…
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Short Skyvan – Part Four – Progressive!
If I were still in Canada I would probably be a Progressive Conservative. As it is I am in Australia and have become a Progressive Cementer. I assemble the fuselages of my model aircraft with a great deal less dash than I used to exhibit; I am cautious and careful and rarely glue myself to…
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Short Skyvan – Part Two – Lavez-vous?
How many of you ignore the warnings in your model kit instructions? How many of you do not wash the kit parts as soon as you open the box? The makers all tell you to, and give as their reason the mould parting agents that may cling to the plastic after manufacture. These might act…
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The Courage To Brush
I once lacked the courage to brush. It was in my early days as a scale modeller – before I popped the top on my first bottle of Revell paint and recoilled from the heady fumes. I was frightened to lay brush to plastic for fear of spoiling the model. The phase didn’t last long…
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The Puppy And The Old Dog
Makes you nostalgic, eh? We start with such high hopes and so much precision. then we encounter The Kit From Hell and the bottle of nuclear waste thinner and it all goes wrong. As the years go by the mat gets punished for our sins but the models get better. We watch as markings disappear…
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A Big Round Of Applause
For the organisers of this year’s WASMex show. Not for the weather or the parking or the fences. For the lighting in the competition hall. It was vastly improved over previous years, and deliberately so. The windows at the sides of the competition hall in the Liddelow Pavilion do let a lot of light in…
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Bless You, Mr. B.
Other people might pass you by, but I appreciate your work. Burfitt Tools are at many of the Little World events I attend; WASMex, the miniatures show, the model railway exhibition. I imagine that Mr. B. goes to other affairs – perhaps woodworking shows or R/C events. I cannot afford all the tools he displays…
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Stupid Science Theatre 2 – Into The Laboratory
If your name is Stein, you always run the risk amongst the vulgar of being called Frankenstein. I have accepted it, and make the most of it for comedic effect. But I mark down the worst offenders and send my assistant, Igor, to visit them on dark and stormy nights. I must show you the…
