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1931 Ford Model A – Part Seven – Aw Shit…
Well there we was just driving along heading back to Missoula, and all of a sudden there was this damn noise. We knew it couldn’t be anything good, so we stopped. We were right. The Minicraft 1931 Ford Model A has come to a halt by the side of the road. It has been a…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Six – The Ick Begins
I wish I had a vial of dirt from every continent. Then I could mix up weathering paint colours accurately. As it is, I use red paints for Australia and neutral browns for Europe. Not sure what Montana looks like under the grass. But nothing daunted, I decided to get the Ford dirty. An acrylic…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Five – Did I Come Here To Dio?
No, you came here yesterdio…* Well, I am going to have a model, instead of a pile of parts in a box. It has been staring me out of countenance for three years and I am finally getting to grips with it. And as these things go, the grip gets just that little bit more…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Four – Occam’s Airbrush
To get you up to speed – Google Occam’s Razor. It’s a fascinating read – but cut to the bone, it is the business of deliberate seeking the simplest explanation for something. In my case it was the business of making rust. Not real rust, you understand – that is a matter of iron, water,…
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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…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 