Tag: display
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The Shape Is The Problem
And the solution. A recent trip to a model railway exhibition showed me a taste of the different styles of layout; the dogbone continuous runner, the oval with benefits, the back and forth…sometimes with magazine feed. There were thin layouts and fat ones, and a couple of very large ones with the operators sitting inside…
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Okay, Chase Me Around The Room With A Fire Axe
But listen to the idea first… Perth displays need a place to shine. Whether they are toy train shows, jewellery shows, or chicken butchering shows, they all need a good place to be seen. Currently the places that will host them are drafty, cold, ill-lit, and expensive. There is no support for displays that is…
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The Box Diorama
I’m a sucker for boxed displays – I spend more time over them at a museum than the open equipment. Call this a peculiarity of the scale modelling mind, if you will, but I think it is because the box-builder has more control of the subject. Lighting is the key for a lot of things;…
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Modelling Without Guilt
It’s rather like sex without guilt – fun, but a little bland. Not that you want to be pursued through bedroom doors and corridors like a Feydeau farce, but a little innocent concealment of the new kit makes for a frisson of excitement – even if it turns out to be the same old moulding…
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Shelving Your Worries
Or worrying your shelves. Some people are like that… I am currently shelving, boxing, and arranging my scale model collection and discovering why museum staff have a certain look on their faces: that of murderous Tetris players. Every museum worth it’s salt – and that includes private collections – has simultaneously more than it should…
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Make Your Own Museum
Make your own display. Please yourself how you do it, but take some time and effort with the presentation…even if it is only for yourself. You will be rewarded: a. If your collection of scale models tells a story. The library aspect b. If your collection is a delight to the eye. The art gallery…
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If You Win Second Place
You resent the person who won first place. The third-place winner detests you both. And the further you get away from the winner’s podium, the deeper the level of hate becomes. That is the nature of contests and competition – you win dislike along with the trophy and the set of dishes. Sometimes winning second…
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Not Every Good Idea…
Is good. Brains do burp occasionally… One of my episodes these last few months centred around building some 1/144 scale fighter planes – my Fifty Cent Fighters. The kits went together well and the painting was a lot of fun; a lot more successful than I expected. But one of my ideas for putting the…
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Canadian Valentine Tank – Part Two – Semi-Detailed
I am alternately delighted and dismayed when I see the interior of a model kit. It may be anything from fully-detailed to absolutely bare, and even the walls of the cockpit or interior of the tank or car may be problematical. There are moulds that concentrate their ijector pin towers right where you are looking.…
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It’s All About The Show
At the show, that is. This fatuous philosophy may make my model displays better in the future. I’ve just seen a wake-up that tells me the viewers need more than what many modellers give them. My library dioramas – 300mm x 820 mm – are kept to that size by the display cabinet that protects…
The Little World 