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Lockheed P-38 – Part Four – The Drive Shaft
The Hobby Boss model of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning has something I have not seen before on any plastic model airplane – it has a driveshaft. Or put more accurately, it has two. All the other models I’ve encountered have had just the opposite – a precise hole in the crankcase or nose where a…
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Lockheed P-38 – Part Three – Every Plane You Build…
Every plane, train, car, and structure you build in scale makes your brain better. The act of turning over the parts, relating them to the instructions, fitting them together, and observing the relationships between the surfaces teaches you far more about the particular full-size object than any photograph or screen representation ever can. And if…
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Lockheed P-38 – Part Two – The Hobby Shop
Well, you get to see a new thing every day – it is just a matter of keeping your eyes open. The purchase of the Hobby Boss Lockheed P-38 brought me two remarkable experiences. I visited a hobby shop here in Perth that I rarely call at. It is some distance from my house and…
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The Clarion Call To Inaction
I attended a model car collector’s display yesterday at our favourite exhibition hall. it’s a once-a-year event that allows the people who make dioramas and displays to show off to the people of Perth. There are also trade tables that cater to those who make a hobby income out of selling toy cars. I had…
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Lockheed P-38 – Part One – Smile For the Camera
When you go past the new kit shelf at the hobby shop and notice that you can get a 1:72 fighter plane for $ 14.95…but if you add another $ 5.00 they’ll give you an extra engine and tail…well it would be foolish not to go with the bargain. Hence the new Hobby Boss Lockheed…
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When Your Time Has Come…
I was thinking of this question while visiting the local hobby shop – Hobbytech. A Sunday afternoon and just the time one runs out of khaki-coloured paint. No good sitting there and wishing that it would appear in the paint rack – you just have to go out and get it. The hobby shop was…
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The Integrated Multi-Level Spatial Constructional Workflow Paradigm
Oops, sorry. I had the Dilbert switch turned on there when I typed that. Lemme turn it off. Here we go again. ” When To Glue Things On. ” That’s better. As a topic it may seem a lot more complex than it really is…because the whole thing basically is not to stick something on…
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Where Was That Blasted XF-68?
Yes, I paint model kits. Yes, I have more than one bottle of paint. Yes, I lose the occasional one down the back of the sofa… Now that I am building more model aircraft kits from different air forces I am getting more paints. Some are direct shades and some are mixtures. I have transcribed…
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Ye Olde Kitte
I went to the swap-meet section of the plastic modelling exhibition a little while ago and looked around. I do that – surreptitious spying is one of those hobbies that you can do with little initial outlay – Just a black cloak and broad – brimmed hat. The dark sunglasses and anarchist’s bomb are just…
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Scale Modelling – The Better Choice
I met three chaps at the 2018 Plastic Modelling Show who were the smartest men on the planet – they were willing to look at themselves and their situation honestly and make the best decision they could about it.They might not be philosophers but they’re wise enough. They come from Koorda, a town in…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 