Tag: kit building

• When Something Tickles Your Fancy

  

  Rejoice. It means you still have a fancy and it is still capable of being tickled. There are people in the world for whom this is just a distant dream. Celebrate the fact that you can still be amused. If the thing that captures your attention is just a passing phenomenon you can take some…

  Dick Stein

  July 9, 2021

  Collecting, design, Miniature Philosophy, Model building club, Modelling Supplies, Uncategorized

  IKEA, kit building, passion, storage

• Time Warps Again

  

  WRITTEN DURING THE AUSTRALIAN SUMMERTIME, WHICH IT IS NOT RIGHT NOW… Well, it’s the hot dry weather, isn’t it. You should see what the front door is doing. I used to think it was made from MDF board but now I suspect it started life as a Möbius strip. But back to the time warpage.…

  Dick Stein

  May 12, 2020

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Organisation, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  kit building, workshop discipline

• Republic P-47 – Part Three – A Week Later

  

  A week would appear to be a long time in the Little Workshop. Long enough to build and paint the Hobby Boss Republic P-47 and push it off the assembly line. I think I need to remind myself that I’m not under government contract here… The assembly was just as easy as I thought –…

  Dick Stein

  May 13, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Chinese models, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  kit building, lacquer thinner, Republic Thunderbolt