Tag: little world

• How Much Fun Is It To See Other People’s Hobbies?

  

  I wonder at that when I see exhibitions of scale modelling or other Little World pursuits. I know it is fun for the exhibitors as they vie to outdo each other and to buy things that they need for their next project. There is a deadly rivalry in some camps and shows are the battlefield…

  Dick Stein

  September 29, 2025

  Modelling exhibitions, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Self Reliance, Tools, Toys, Uncategorized

  kids, little world, toy shops

• What Did You Make?

  

  Or – if you are still cutting and gluing – what are you making? Is it a little airplane from a kit? A ship? A doll house? A working railway? Good – all you different makers, would you be surprised to realise that you are all making the same thing? What? You are making yourself…

  Dick Stein

  January 27, 2025

  Figure modelling, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model cars, Model ships, Model trains, model trucks, Uncategorized

  happiness, little world, model building

• The Little People

  

  No, not leprechauns. Or dwarves or midgets or any other arbitrary divisions of the human race. I mean model figures that accompany our scale models. The denizens of the Little World. By rights they should be the ones we make the dioramas for, instead of with. They are the rightful owners of the scale. The casual…

  Dick Stein

  June 15, 2020

  1:72 scale, Figure modelling, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  little world, model figurines, Painting