Tag: competitions
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Sitting For Your Exams
We have all sat for exams. School, university, the military, the professional board…whatever…we have all had that sinking feeling as we presented ourselves for assessment and judgement. Would we be good enough? No, of course not. The fact that someone has the power to judge you, per se, says you are inferior to them –…
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The Stoics Guide To The Little World
For stoics, if problems exist outside, they have ways of dealing with them, inside. The stoic dips very rarely into the pool of external anxiety, and then only briefly. Their first step is to determine whether some event truly affects them or is the affair of another and can be safely ignored. In our hobby,…
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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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No, I’m The King
You have to be Princess. It’s my game and I write the rules. I think I have discovered where the concept of scale model exhibition committees was developed. Sort of like a Dungeons And Dragons game where reading the rules takes up most of the evening and eventually you just want a drink. Perhaps there…
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Drivin’ Miss Crazy
If you ever want to practice your anxiety, I can think of no better exercise than driving somewhere with a scale model in the car. Oh, I hasten to add, that’s a completed model…just tooling home from the hobby shop with a kit in a box plus $ 85 dollars of new paint is no…
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Governance
Your chance to select a favourite form of domination. We have: a. Kitocracy. The person with the most kits wins. These do not have to be completed, though that would give you more credibility. If you are prepared to just total up the number of boxes in the stash and count that as the prime…
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When Little Worlds Collide
A casual discussion overheard at my modelling club about an upcoming Big Local Modelling Exhibition revolved around which club exhibit would win the coveted “ Best In Show “ award. It’s decided by a public vote amongst the paying attendees. Everyone gets a twiddly wink as a counter and places it in a box at…
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The Big Local Model Show Competition
I was talking to a friend recently and he suggested we try a joint entry into one of the competitions at the big local model show – the one to be held at the Cannington Exhibition Centre next April. There is to be a class of contest that allows multiple builders within one entry. This…
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