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The Little Workshop – When A Hunch Pays Off
I rarely go downtown these days unless it is to haunt the bookstore or check up on the branch of the camera shop I used to work for. The rest of the shops are filled with wonderful things that I don’t want and the streets are filled with people I wish to avoid. But there…
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I Want To Build The Model That Would Make My Life Complete, But…
But… a. No-one makes it. Or at least they do not make it in the scale I want. Or they make the Mk 2 version and I want the Mk 34 version… b. They made it in 1959 and have been re-issuing the kit ever since. Every time the mould changes hands they hire another…
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When Is Old Junk…Old Junk?
And when is it Invaluable Historic Resource? This thought was forced upon me as I sifted through the secondhand dealer’s goods at the Model Railway Exhibition this year. There were at least three dealers specifically dedicated to secondhand – perhaps there were more that I did not see. Their stock ranged from quite professional goods…
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Precision Need Not Be Prestigious
Nor need it be pricey.* I came to that conclusion each time I approached the Hobby Boss Brewster Buffalo kit – even at the wash and trim stage – where I got the mould-parting agent off the basic sprues and then air-dried them. And then started cutting parts from them and building subassembies. This was…
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The Myriad Of Little Worlds
In one holiday weekend – devoted to Western Australia Day – I found I visited five different Little Worlds. And in most cases the costs were under a sawbuck, including coffee. You can’t beat that on the international travel circuit. Day One: I appear as a cameo walk-on at a belly dance concert…the Little World…
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How Did They Do That? Vs How Would I Do That?
Well there you go. You are now officially trying to out-think the designers and manufacturers of the model kit in the box. You may also be about to transcend the thinking of the original equipment makers. It’s your 30 bucks and your tube of glue, so more power to you and keep out of the way…
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Extra Dark Sea Yellow-Pink
Or was that RLM Light Puce? Or Cockpit Poo Brown? Every source of information that one can access about authentic colours for scale models is based upon the opinion of the person who wrote it…and that may be perfectly valid, adequately valid, nearly valid, or a dog-bone lie. If it is connected in a commercial…
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The Great White West Is Not A Great White Waste
What’s white and cream and arctic and matt and gloss and lives in an old Patak’s curry paste jar? My new model paint, that’s what. And I think the most expensive component was the empty jar. I was up to the paint stage with my Air World museum buildings and they were daunting structures –…
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The Intellectual In The Little World
Are you an Intellectual? Do you know any intellectuals? Can you define intellectual? I can’t. I can define intellect, but I’m darned if I know where to look for it in other people. If they essay to show it to me I am suspicious of the process, and if they do not show it I…
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Whenever You Make A Model of Something…
Make a model of something. That is not just my entry into the fatuous statement of the year contest – it is the realisation that there are a lot of things that people do as modellers that are not helping themselves. Let me explain… a. If you essay to be a railway modeller, you need…
The Little World
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