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1931 Ford Model A – Part Three – A Rolling Chassis
I was always surprised as a kid to read of motor cars being supplied in body-less form. It seemed like selling skeletons – frightening and unsatisfying. I had never seen a motor car in the 1950’s stripped from its chassis – and in a few years it would have been impossible to separate a unibody…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Two – When Art Becomes Burlesque
Relax – no sex here. And surprisingly, not a lot of sex at the burlesque shows either…but that is another tale. The business of making a jalopy or rat rod is quite fashionable today. I see them at hot rod shows all the time and like to look at the details. For vehicles made by…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part One – The Elephant In The Stash
If you have a room, you have an elephant. It doesn’t matter whether it is a real room with a real elephant, or a scale model one. Somewhere there will be a problem that no-one mentions. In my case the pachyderm has been a Minicraft 1:16 scale model of a 1931 Ford two-door sedan. It…
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” Well, I’d ‘A Done It Better…”
Keep your ears open at the next exhibition you go to – you stand a fair chance of hearing that phrase passed back and forth amongst the strollers. And the funny thing is that it doesn’t matter what is being exhibited; paintings, scale models, photographs, pottery, or hot rod cars…Ida is still going to be…
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When The World Gives You Lemons
Make a lemon meringue pie. SImple. This meme business is getting tame… When the world gives you MDF board, Foamcore sheets, and old pieces of matt board you have more of a challenge. The thing to realise about it is that the ingredients essentially cost pennies and anything you do with them raises the value…
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Oh Sheet, It’s the Instructions…
I am fairly bright for a dim person. I can play Scrabble and do connect-the-dots puzzles. I have, on occasion, found Wally. But I struggle with the instruction sheets for the model airplane kits. It was not always thus…in the 1950’s and 60’s the instruction sheets for the kits seemed to be a lot easier…
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The Aftermarket Kit
Or how to spend money with both barrels. I have now started to take a scale modelling magazine each month at the local newsagency. This is great, because I was starting to lose faith in the publishing industry there for a while. I would run the racks and find nothing that could hold enough interest…
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That Hint Of Fraud
I was attracted to a weblog column that mentioned a famous British modeller – Phil Flory – and his video productions. The chap who wrote the column from the US was not at all pleased with Phil, and made his unhappiness evident. I was not convinced by it…it seemed to have a ring of spite.…
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1200mm x 900mm x 3mm = $ 5.95
Now there is a mathematical equation that I cannot understand. But I am not going to let ignorance deter me from taking advantage of a bargain. I am a scale modeller after all, and a proud member of the clan McFrugal. We can pinch a penny until it screams. The occasion for my reverie was…
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The Early Holiday Gift
We are just into the second week of November and it is already holiday gift time. In this case it is my gift to me. One of those occasions when only the best will do… In this case the best turned out to be a result of the recent hospital stay…I had time all day…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 