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” Hey You! What’s The Small Idea? ” – F2A Three
If I were a spray painter on a full-size airplane I’d have no troubles spraying a fine line between colours. A few sheets of newspaper to screen off the overspray and away I’d go matching up the instructions. But I am working in 1:72 scale and I don’t think that my hand skills are such…
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I Can See Clearly Now! – F2A Two
Woah! That’s a revelation! I’ve been learning the business of masking and painting clear canopies and turrets for the 1:72 aircraft over the past couple of months. It has not been an easy process, as I have discovered just how un-detailed parts can be in some kits. If you combine this with the propensity of…
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Cheap Refreshment – F2A One
After the recent spate of complexity – the Special Hobby Avro Anson Mk1 – I found myself with a thirst for simplicity and strong drink. My desire prompted me to look over the kit shelves at Hobbytech in Myaree. I have more Special Hobby and some Airfix on the stash shelf, but quite frankly I…
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Envy Is As Envy Does…Sin Seven
We’ve all heard of peer pressure but really that term is more applicable to our last sin…Envy. What envy generally does, is peer. It peers into catalogs, peers into other people’s mail, peers over the fence, peers over shoulders. It is never happy with what it sees…because what it sees is someone else with something…
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Look At Me Look At Me!…Sin Six
Hey, you! I said look at me! Look at the model I made! Look at the train layout I made! Look at the dollhouse I made! Ain’t I the most fabulous thing you’ve ever seen? Disregard the fact that the model battleship is a kit and the only skill I have shown is not gluing…
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Build The Stash
A pause in the litany of sin today – It’s my birthday and I thought you deserved a little variety in the column. Back to the grind tomorrow… I am a relatively recent returnee to the hobby of model kit building – though I have been whacking away at scratchbuilt structures and repurposed die-casts for…
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The Complete Story Of…Sin Five
” Well? Where is it? Where’s the last part of the title? We paid for the whole damn title…” I’ll get round to it eventually…but first a word about sloth for modellers. The word is – slow down. No sense rushing a modelling job. Slow and steady wins the race. A good job well begun…
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Greedy Little Swine…Sin Four
Greed is a deadly sin. The definition of greed is therefore a wonderful tool with which to manipulate people – like the word ‘racist ‘, the person who first wields it in modern debate has a distinct advantage – their opponent has then to expend ten times the amount of effort to disprove it that…
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Lust – Pant, Pant, Pant…Sin Three
It’s hard to focus on lust as a Little World sin if you adhere to the Big World definition of it as purely sexual. Granted there are some pretty erotic little statuettes sold to the Japanese market but then you have to remember that these are the people who went mad over a man in…
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Gluttony With Extra Sauce…Sin Two
It’s hard to be a classic glutton when you are trying to make a Little World. Food costs money – money that could be better spent on model kits, strip wood, and dollhouse furniture. Every triple-layer Massiveburger with extra cheese means a pot of paint foregone. A good night out with extra chips costs the…
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