Tag: supplies

• You Can Only Build What You Can Get

  

  And if you can’t get something, you have to build it… The principle of the scratch-builder. Also of the realistic builder – a person who may not know their own limitations but can list those of the local hobby shops in detail. This is not just snarkiness – the realistic builder knows that not every…

  Dick Stein

  January 14, 2026

  Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, scratch-building, Uncategorized

  choices, shops, supplies

• I Was Saving That For A Rainy Day…

  

  When we set out stockpile materials, kits, plans, money, and tools with a hazy vision of one day making the grande supremo opus de-luxe  model…we condemn ourselves to a lifetime of anxiety. For how will we know when that ultimate opportunity arrives? When can we open the secret vault door and bring out the ”…

  Dick Stein

  July 17, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Dioramas, Doll Houses, Enamel, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling Supplies, Uncategorized, Workshop

  good materials, miserliness, plastic, supplies, the stash