Tag: art
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How Do You Cope When They Don’t Approve Of Your Model?
Or worse; how do you cope when they do? If you submit your scale models to public scrutiny at exhibitions you invite criticism. It may be constructive and helpful or snide and miserable – but you have no control of it after your model slides onto the display table. Decide long before then whether you…
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Cartoons
No, you fools, not the ninja turtles. The real Da Vinci and the preparatory drawings he used to do in chalk and charcoal before launching out onto canvas and oil paint. Think you can pick one up for a bargain price? I mean it’s just a chalk sketch, right? How much could chalk cost…? You…
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JS-2 Tank – Part Four – Czech This One Out…
Despite indecision about the Zvezda JS-2 kit’s deficiencies, I think it has fulfilled my vision splendidly. The idea of armour and military modelling is new to me – heretofore I just collected die-cast vehicles that suited my model airfields. I admired the efforts of expert armour modellers i saw at my club and at interstate…
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The Wrong Scale
There is no better way of starting a donnybrook than to suggest that a model is the wrong scale. Say it to whom you will, you will have a fight. And haven’t we all seen the box scale gem that is destined to shine alone? Or the model that supports too little or too much…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Four – The Mysterious Models
I use the term ” mysterious ” here in a purely personal sense. The subjects that are covered by many modellers and gamers are out of my experience, and I can only gaze upon them with wonder. I hope they will do the same for me – even if it is just wondering if I…
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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…
The Little World 