Category: workflow
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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…
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The Unmarked Car
People who model detective’s cars have it easy – they are always supposed to be unmarked and that means you do not have to worry about the decal sheet having deteriorated in time. I do not have the luxury of insouciance when it comes to 1:72 aircraft. From the daggiest little trainer at the local…
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Pilatus PC-21 – Part Four – Decal Phobia
Fear of water-slide transfers, if you wish to be pedantic… It strikes us all at one time or another. We see a commemoration scheme on the box lid and are lured into getting a kit with complex curved surfaces. The real-life plane or vehicle is painted by professionals with masks, spray guns, and a lot…
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Queen Mary – Part Two – Club Afternoon
I frequent two hobby clubs: The One You Admit To and The One You Conceal. To be fair, I change the designations around from month to month so that everyone can feel uncomfortable… The heading image is the amount accomplished at one 3-hour session. Airfix were precise and sensible when they wanted to be; you…
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Scratch-building Pack
We often encounter notes on short-run kit instructions that tell us to scratch-build some part. It may be a strut or part of an interior. Perhaps a flap or plate or even part of the undercarriage. Indeed there can be kits where the parts are provided but are of such poor quality that you are…
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Too Hard?
Possibly. But remember that clean joints and clear canopies were too hard when you were 11 years old. You are now 67, and all the joints are good and all the canopies are clean. Life has progressed, and so have you. If the scheme on the colour call-out looks impossibly complex, do not worry. Take…
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Monetising Your Side Hustle Paradigm
Mystically, if possible. I have been watching advisory videos on how to start a YouTube channel and noted a phenomenon…nearly all the commenters are focusing desperately on the ways to make the channel return money to you. This is a little suspect if you are not actually paying anything to operate it in the first…
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Every Kit Is A Spin Of The Wheel
Whether it’s a Crown and Anchor wheel or one they break criminals on is up to you. Sometimes it is up to the makers of the kits – but even the best kit can be spoiled and the worst made magnificently. As you are the one doing the work, you need to be the factor…
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Can You Give Useful Advice On A Scale Model Topic…
If you have no idea what you are talking about? Oddly enough…yes. I have watched a number of YouTube videos made by people with no experience, expertise, or ability to communicate, and gained valuable insights. It is not for everyone to be a Solon or an Arnold. Most of us are not teachers – and…
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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…
The Little World 