Tag: failure

• Know When To Fold ‘Em

  

  Kenny Rogers’ good advice to scale model builders. We all know the virtues of perseverance and hard work, having had it drummed into us by parents, schools, and employers. What has been missing is the virtue of quitting while you are ahead. Kenny Rogers’ gambler knew it, and it is time we did too. You…

  Dick Stein

  October 12, 2024

  1:35 scale, 1:72 scale, design, frugality, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Organisation, Scale Models, Self Reliance, Uncategorized, workflow

  courage, failure, honesty, reality

• The Art Of The Signal Failure

  

  I used to think that a signal failure was the dismal collapse of the world. I now view it as a necessary component in the chain of good communication…and not one to be ignored. I have done badly with my scale modelling at times…mostly through impatience and lack of understanding of the materials with which…

  Dick Stein

  September 26, 2022

  design, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, research, Uncategorized, workflow

  failure, learning, success

• Do Dollhouse Ladies Have Failures?

  

  I don’t know. Do they ever grasp their latest Victorian parlour settee model and fling it against the wall? Is there a flood of unparliamentary language? Perhaps – they are human after all. I sympathise, and do not wish them endless failure. But I do wish them a bit of it – and I hope…

  Dick Stein

  February 4, 2022

  Doll Houses, Miniature Philosophy, Model building club, Organisation, Uncategorized, workflow

  Doll Houses, failure, learning, success