Category: workflow

• Plod, Nod, Or Sod It All?

  

  Do you build models in parallel or do you build them in serial? Is your workbench pristine and pure – a minimalist’s paradise? Or is it awash in 14 kits and a broken toy that you prised apart for the gears? It can be a seriously diagnostic thing to see – a window into your…

  Dick Stein

  September 2, 2019

  1:72 scale, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Organisation, Uncategorized, workflow, Workshop

  kits, Organisation, storage

• Spitfire Mk IX – Part Two – The Patchwork Quilt

  

  I am always in awe of the kit builder who has every seam perfect, every wheel straight, and every panel line scribed out. Awe and horror. Awe, horror, and unreasoning anger… Well, it’s not quite that bad, but I do regard perfection with some suspicion. Fortunately the Matchbox Spitfire Mk IX is a very soothing…

  Dick Stein

  August 19, 2019

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, workflow

  putty, Spitfire, Vallejo

• The Dawning Of Peace

  

  Have you ever been in the middle of an internal war? When your heart says ” I must have it! “…and your brain says ” You cannot afford it! ” and then the two organs glare and spit at each other? It is particularly likely when you have just been to the hobby shop or…

  Dick Stein

  July 15, 2019

  Scale Models, Tools, Uncategorized, workflow, Workshop

  air conditioning, Little Workshop, workbench