Tag: starter kits

• I’m Bypassing My Second Childhood

  

  And I’m heading straight for my second adolescence. More money to spend, I get to stay up later, and there’ll be girls. Well, girls for later. For now I get to spend some of my allowance on better model kits. And there’ll be increased privileges and responsibilities. I am going to be allowed to have…

  Dick Stein

  May 23, 2022

  1:72 scale, frugality, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  Adolescence, kitchen table, starter kits

• The Little Kid Model

  

  I was in the airplane kit aisle of my local – Hobbytech – one Sunday, and I encountered a charming scene. A young man – under 20, I should say – was introducing a friend to model kits and helping him to get some to start building. The sort of thing that encourages us all.…

  Dick Stein

  December 15, 2018

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Chinese models, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  encouragement, starter kits, starting modellers