Tag: model show
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Perth’s Plastic People
Sunday morning at the big local scale model exhibition was a festival of wanderers – some with purpose and some with purses. I know…I was one of them. We do not dress well – in some cases because of poverty of purse…in others an equal lack of taste. No matter, we have paid to get…
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The Big Local Model Show For 2022 Is Coming
Well, I for one, am quite delighted. The big local model show for Perth in 2022 is scheduled and has been announced on a dedicated Facebook page. The venue will be the same – the Cannington Exhibition Centre on Albany Highway…the same ground that holds the dog racing track and the Canning Show, plus a…
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I Go To The Show
The annual scale model show got cancelled flat last year and very nearly so again this year. Fortunately we lucked it and got to hold the two-day event in the normal venue. The only restrictions were compulsory mask wearing and keeping a safe distance from each other. And no touching the models. I entered a…
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The Suitcasers
Do you remember seeing a 1960’s George Peppard movie called ” The Carpetbaggers ” ? A rough sketch of Howard Hughes and quite racy at the time. It’s title was taken from the scornful name given to Northern exploiters who flooded into the American South after the Civil War. Conmen, graspers, and get-rich-quick merchants…rather in…
The Little World 