Tag: ideas

• Équipe Super Mystère – Part One – L’idée Dormante

  

  For years these Heller kits have lain on the shelves. Ignored, discarded, unconsidered. Rather the story of many lives, eh? Well the reforming zeal of the SMCWA committee swept them from the storeroom and into my stash cabinet. Whence they have flown to the workbench and photo table. They are 1:100 scale – not a…

  Dick Stein

  January 3, 2026

  box scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, French aircraft, frugality, Model Airplane, Model building club, Modelling Supplies, Self Reliance, Uncategorized

  France, ideas, Super Mystère

• Do Not Tidy Up

  

  Or do tidy up. Choose whichever piece of gratuitous advice you like – the price is the same. There is a danger to the business of tidying up a hobby workshop – you may succeed. Then you have a tidy workshop and nothing actually doing. This is a very sad situation. I’m sitting here on…

  Dick Stein

  September 19, 2019

  Miniature Philosophy, Organisation, Scale Models, Tools, Uncategorized, workflow, Workshop

  completion, ideas, Organisation, tidiness

• Cheap And Nasty Or Cheap And Nicely?

  

  When I came to Australia in the 60’s I encountered a whole new division of language. Coming from North America I had experienced Canadian English and American English – now I had Australian English to learn. It wasn’t that hard, once you discarded the ocker colloquialisms. Of course you had to pick them up again…

  Dick Stein

  July 21, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Figure modelling, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Tools, Workshop

  frugality, ideas, Little Workshop, painting aids