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Get Down!
Relax – it’s not the dog on the table again. This post is about getting down to your models when you are trying to photograph them. The first photograph I ever took of a scale model was of a Revell 105mm howitzer in about 1:40 scale. I’d saved up for it, sent away to a…
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Stacking The Shelves
Let me preface this post by saying that I spent 40 years being professionally fussy and organised for myself and my patients and then 8 years trying to cope with someone else’s retail stock chaos after that – 48 years of honourable organisation without tipping over into clinical OCD. It was good preparation for my…
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It Always Pays To Get Sniffy
Recently I was given a bum steer, but fortunately it was not fatal. I’d purchased a silver-coloured paint to spray a small model airplane, and since I normally work in acrylic paints, I wanted assurance that the bottle I’d bought was acrylic. I was told it was. When getting ready for the spray job tonight…
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Moving Time
My childhood was punctuated at very short intervals by the arrival of Bekins, Allied, or Mayflower moving vans…and we whisked off to another portion of North America. Eventually we whisked off to Australia, and as the airline that brought us here went out of business, we stayed. I am happy to say that the moves…
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Pirate Day
Arrrrrrr. It was Talk Like A Pirate Day at Bunnings, the local DIY shop. All the staff – old and young – were dressed as pirates and the cries of ” Matey ” and ” Arrrr” flew thick and fast. I understood their joy – I do enjoy a good keelhauling myself in warm weather……
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The Nano Part For The Nanny State
Paradoxically, nano is a big word these days. We see it every time someone has managed to make a smaller machine or discovered a smaller bit of the universe. You’ll see it in all sorts of scientific reports as well as commercial advertisements. Mind you, the makers of confectionery tend to shy away from it…
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Leave Us Not
Leave us not get the impression that The Little World is only airplanes – it is far more, as the ever-growing storage racks at my studio will attest. There are cars, trains, planes, houses, shops, caravans, and dinosaurs. Also stage sets, movie studios, horses, porcelain dogs, and a resident gecko that lays eggs. The heading…
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All Aboard!
The business of scale model photography needs only a few basic components; light, a camera, and a scale model. Everything else is just commentary. But what commentary…As you’ll observe in the heading image, there are models sourced from eight different makers or genres. There are three different scales seen – and three layers of image…
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The Journey Begins
And I scramble about for the Wacom pen and dive for the hard drive icon. So many things to say and do…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 