Tag: rewards

• How Many Long Distance Runners Appreciate What They Are Doing?

  

  And how many scale modellers do, either. The person who sits, day after day, completing tank tracks, or gluing branches on tiny pine trees, or copper plating the bottom of a wooden vessel will probably not say that they are having a whale of a time…unless the model ship is the PEAQUOD, and in that…

  Dick Stein

  May 16, 2025

  Collecting, damage control, display, Miniature Philosophy, Model ships, Modelling exhibitions, Scale Models, Uncategorized, workflow

  details, rewards, work

• Boy, Was Flory Ever Right

  

  And more correct than even he thought. Phil Flory is making some bite-sized videos for modellers to introduce them to basic concepts – and right at the start of this series he has advised people to sit down with the instruction book and plan out their build. Good, good advice, and something that no-one else…

  Dick Stein

  August 3, 2020

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

  Instructions, Phil Flory, philosophy, planning, rewards

• The Progressive Woo Hoo

  

  People who want to develop a better character should become scale modellers. They will learn patience, perseverance, resilience, frugality, and how to get glue off your pants. And they will have rewards at each stage of the journey through modelling. It won’t be just at the end or at some contest when their model of…

  Dick Stein

  July 27, 2018

  Collecting, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  punishments, rewards, stages in modelling