Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Other People's Models . . .
It's been a long time since I posted to the blog, and almost as long since I worked on a model! Since June of 2009, I haven't raised a scalpel or an airbrush in anger.
Back then, we put our old rambling Edwardian end-of-terrace house on the market. It was becoming decrepit (like me!) and increasingly expensive to run. It was also far too big for just the two of us. Common sense dictated that we find something:
- smaller
- with a garden big enough for our two dobermanns (dobermen?)
- in reasonably good condition.
We found something suitable in fairly short order, and by mid-August we had 'upped sticks' and moved to a smashing bungalow in the nearby village of Skellingthorpe. So far, so good . . .
The only downside in all this is that the bungalow provides no space at all for a hobby room. I could revert to working off the kitchen table (at least I could if we had a kitchen table!), but I've been spoiled. I want a room where I can have all my books and my thousands of magazines, and my PC and printer, and a TV, and my DVD and CD collection and a workbench and a spraybooth and . . . . well, you get the picture!
The masterplan is that we're going to convert the garage (6m x 3m approx) to a 'studio', but there have been lots of other things to get out of the way first, and then in January of this year I had a minor heart attack. I seem to have 'got away' with that, but I'm finding that I still tire very easily, so the conversion is probably going to take longer than anticipated, and cost more, since I will have to employ professionals for some of the building work.
To reactivate this blog, then, while I recover my modelmaking mojo, I thought I would post pictures and comments on other people's models that have particularly impressed me, culling them from various modelling sites, and the first of these is illustrated at the head of this post.
It's a 1/32nd scale Wingnut Wings RNAS Sopwith Pup by Haris Ali, and I have selected it because it's a rare example of a model of a dirty aeroplane which looks like a dirty aeroplane, rather than just a dirty model. Many of the current weathering trends used - and apparently admired - by a great many modellers, seem to me to be too obviously showy, or formulaic, or overdone. This Pup, on the other hand, is just about perfect. You can find Haris's post on Hyperscale, here
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Until next time - keep bashing the plastic!
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