Tag: Despair
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The Decal And Your Soul
Only one comes on a paper sheet… The decal – or water-slide transfer if you are pedantically British – is the final test of your character. It is the printed sheet of possibilities that can become either probabilities or inevitabilities. You will get what you deserve… It’s the challenge that separates the men from the…
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When It Is All Too Flaming Much
Do not despair. Do not allow kit makers to sell you unhappiness. If they have decided that you need to model the rivets on the underside of the toilet seat in the 1/144 scale airliner, consider your own opinion before theirs. They may very well be making fools of themselves and you at the same…
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Buy A Curse
Be careful in your selection – you want something that will disturb and haunt you for a long time to come. The thing to do is go to the hobby shop and search the shelves until you find something that is both impossibly expensive and horribly complex. Preferably with a complicated colour scheme and a…
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Perverse Hopes
Relax. This is Safe For Work. If they have accepted the fact that you build plastic model kits, the worst is over. You can stop pretending to respectability and go back to looking at Airfix magazine in the toilets. The perverse hopes we speak of are: a. The hope that a major manufacturer will mould…
The Little World 