Category: workflow
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Play With Their Minds
If you visit museums, exhibitions, and toxic waste disposal sites you can have a lot of fun by playing with the minds of the people who run the places. The organisers, curators, and assistants are scholarly, dedicated individuals who deserve everything that happens to them. Try one of the following: a. Locate a German WW2…
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Proper ‘Ard
Say that in a Matt Ball accent. The question of drying times has arisen in the past and I’ve made decisions that have bit me in the Arsenal F.C. Progressing from Tamiya acrylics to Mr. Color lacquers and modelling in an outside workshop/shed for much of the year has meant that there were a whole…
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Shed O’ Doom
Are you a North American or European modeller this December? I want you to do an experiment for me. I want you to set up your modelling bench in your garage or in a metal shed out on the back lawn at your house. ( No apartment dwellers need apply. ) then I want to…
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Hawker Tempest – Part Two – It Might Just As Well…
It might just as well be a Buster…and it might just as well be a Hobby Boss kit rather than an Academy product. The building experience has been just as rapid. I washed the sprue trees for this Tempest at about 12:30 – the basic airframe enclosing a painted cockpit was ready for the photo…
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Ooh! We’ll Build THAT One…
Aaaaaand We’re there! We’ve succeeded in the most difficult part of scale modelling – deciding which model to make. The question and decision may have been asked and made in several ways: There is a picture of a ship, plane, or tank that we’ve seen on the net…or in a book…that just calls to us.…
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Northrop P-61 Black Widow – Part Five – The Ghost Decal
I was a bit puzzled when I opened the box for the Hobby Boss Northrop P-61 Black Widow and saw that there were two sheets of decals; a big one and a little one. The big one had all the usual insignia, tail codes, and wing lines ( BTW, I hate wing lines as they…
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Snowball Effect
When I started writing weblog columns for the camera shop where I worked, I had no idea that it was going to be more than a flash in the pan – a management whim that would come and go as fast as a wink. Other ideas had done just that. But in the end I…
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The Point Of Conception
There has been a great deal of debate on the subject of when life actually starts – medical, legal, and religious authorities have all weighed in with their opinions and formulated laws based upon findings and calculations.There’s been a good deal of doctrine and dogma involved as well – if you think about it, any…
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Burbank
I appear to have started an aircraft factory. This was not my intention when I began my retirement modelling – I was just looking for one or two kits to while away spare time. Nostalgia. A mere bagatelle. Well, the Mere Aircraft Company’s Bagatelle Mk III turns out to have been a hell of an…
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Never Mind Washing Your Hands
Wash your Handley Page. If you won’t do it carefully, just do it for the Halifax… We all need to wash our mitts more these days to prevent the transmission of the Wuhan Plague and hopefully we will all do so – but what we really need to do is wash our model kits better.…
The Little World 