Category: workflow
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Using Up The Mashed Potatoes
When you open your refrigerator are you faced with shelves full of Tupperware containers? And in each one of them there’s a portion of something you ate earlier in the week? And none of the containers hold enough of anything for a feed? What do you do? Why you tip everything into a fry pan,…
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Do Dollhouse Ladies Have Failures?
I don’t know. Do they ever grasp their latest Victorian parlour settee model and fling it against the wall? Is there a flood of unparliamentary language? Perhaps – they are human after all. I sympathise, and do not wish them endless failure. But I do wish them a bit of it – and I hope…
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Waitin’ To Paint
Doesn’t it seem that you spend 80% of your time on Earth waiting? As a kid you spend time waiting to grow up and as you do you spend hours in queues, traffic, and meetings. When you are at home you spend time waiting for family members to be ready to go out. When you’re…
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Lockdown Modelling
Put aside your politics, folks. I’m concerned with the practicalities of scale modelling when they call a lockdown in your area. If you’re at home to stay for a period of time, your best friends are not the TV or the cocktail cabinet. They are your library and your modelling stash. And possibly your computer,…
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Are You Organised?
Are you organised enough? Or too much? Are people diving down side streets to avoid you when you ask them about organisation? Is it time for an intervention? I ask this in the wake of a day spent organising my modelling boxes. Note the plural there – it indicates that we are, as Kinky Friedman…
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Your New Year’s Modelling Resolution
You may be feeling a bit queasy this morning after the New Year’s Eve just gone, but that doesn’t excuse you from your duty as a scale modeller to make a number of New Years Resolutions. Here is a list from which you may choose: a. You can resolve to complete the kits that are…
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You Know Where You Can Stick It, Buddy
And wash your hands afterwards… I use all sorts of perfectly good adhesives for my modelling – cements, glues, resins, etc. And while they all have different formulae and different actions on the plastic models, they have one thing in common; I can make them go where they are not wanted. I have smeared every…
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All Your Problems Will Be A Thing Of The Past
Leaving time and energy for your new problems. Whenever you meet with an obstacle in your road to scale modelling you must stop and try to figure out what went wrong. Go to reference works – whether they be on-line or in magazines – and then talk to other modellers who have had the same…
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Remember: It’s Only A Hobby
If you’re smart. If you make it your job you have no hobby. Then you have to take up digging ditches to let off steam after building scale models all day… And so it goes. There are people who love their work and bosses who love that dedication…because they can make more money out of…
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Gloster Meteor – Part Two – The Wrong Road
I would be the first person to admit my mistakes – at least the ones I cannot hide under the rug. Or blame on other people. This kit prompted a mistake. I thought that I was going to make an Israeli Meteor to be displayed in 1956 colours at my air museum at Schmatterim. The…
The Little World 