Tag: cheap models

• Of Course It Doesn’t Fit

  

  It never fit in 1959, when the kit was released. It didn’t fit in 1989 when Revell bought the mould and re-issued it. It will not fit when someone east of the Urals finally gets the worn-out blocks and injects reindeer poo into them to claw back some rubles. It’s not about fit. It’s about…

  Dick Stein

  December 28, 2022

  1:72 scale, Czech models, design, finances, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Polish models, Russian models, Ukrainian models, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  cheap models, FROG, old moulds

• 15 = 50

  If someone owes you $ 50 and tries to pay you off with $ 15, don’t you let them get away with it. That’s robbery. But if you find that you can have the same amount of fun, nourishment, or drunken-ness for $ 15 as you can for $ 50…take advantage of the discount. I…

  Dick Stein

  January 27, 2021

  1:72 scale, finances, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  cheap models, frugality

• When All Else Fails, Cheap Out.

  

  We all cruise the aisle of the hobby shop, hardware store, craft shop, or toy store looking for the Great Bargain. The Score. The Once-In-A-Lifetime chance to buy a $5000 model for 50¢. It never eventuates, of course, and we can become bitter and twisted. The thing we all need to do is realise that…

  Dick Stein

  July 14, 2018

  Acrylic, Enamel, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized, Workshop

  cheap models, cheap paint, cheap paper, cheap wood, frugality