Tag: old kits

• Seriously Successful Decals

  

  I’ve written before about the traumas of trying to get old decals to work – and failing miserably with some of them. But now I can brighten the day – Even 1959 decals can be brought back. There is a little of the Transylvanian laboratory about it, but you can do it. All you need…

  Dick Stein

  February 17, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Decals, old kits, rescue

• Seriously Old Decals

  

  By a serious old modeller. I seem to be turning into the olde cheape modeller these days…and loving it. The number of older kits that have fallen into my hands lately suggests that I am either dumpster diving for my hobby or other people are not recognising the value of their own possessions before they…

  Dick Stein

  December 6, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model building club, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Decals, frugality, old kits

• The Seven Circles Of Modeller’s Inferno

  

  Dante was not the only person who made a journey to the lowest depths of Hell and wrote about it. I’ve been to the hobby shows myself. Apart from a little more sulphurous smell and uglier demons, they are remarkably like the underworld. And just as Dante found, there are distinct levels of the place,…

  Dick Stein

  June 27, 2018

  Collecting, Hobby Shops, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model cars, Model trains, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  finishing systems, Hell, Hobby Shops, old kits, prototypes