Tag: temptation

• Should You Be First?

  

  Here’s the scenario: Super Hobby Good Times Model Kit Cooperative produces the first-ever model of the Benoit-Farquarrson medium bomber. You can get it in Tanganyikan, Ecuadorian, or Moldavian markings – armed with either blunderbusses or cruise drones. There are PE parts, resin parts, and a genuine wooden voodoo idol included with the kit. Should you…

  Dick Stein

  October 11, 2025

  1:72 scale, damage control, design, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, photo-etch brass, Resin, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  strange models, temptation

• When You See That Magic Lamp

  

  We all succumb to the lure of the magic lamp occasionally. That moment when you see something exotic in the swirling waters at your feet and reach down and pick it up… The lucky ones drop it but the unfortunate ones rub and the genii comes out. Well, I avoided rubbing when I visited a…

  Dick Stein

  June 30, 2018

  Acrylic, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Model Airplane, Model cars, Modelling materials, Painting, Uncategorized

  Hobby shop, new materials, paint, temptation