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20th Century

Desert Diorama, Part Three

4th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Some model kits come with suitable figures to assemble but recently I have taken to buying figure kits made via rapid prototyping techniques by new manufacturers in China. The sculpting of these and also ICM [more…]

20th Century

More Little Women

30th August 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

The Puffin is a well-travelled and well-connected bird. Last week’s unread article detailed the need for little women in my evening job’s bargain retail outlet to tunnel next door to Discount Toy Canyon and steal [more…]

20th Century

Desert Diorama, Part Two

28th August 2024 Going Postal 0

In parallel with building the baseboard, desert and buildings (see Part 1), I started to collect and assemble the DAK armour, vehicles and figures to populate the diorama. My preference is for kits made by [more…]

Hobbies

Always Worth Saying’s Fleet Review

23rd May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Nelson reminded us it takes two years to build a frigate and two hundred years to build a tradition. The odd, the quirky, the eccentric fuels that tradition and provides the cement that bonds fellow [more…]

Computing

Welcome to Dingleberry

21st April 2021 Leopard 0

It isn’t my fault, honest, you may recall a certain nameless puffin of this parish who has a thing for shunting and the associated models who some time ago started to make a small model [more…]

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Shunting forwards and backwards

19th February 2020 Sweaty Dave 0

Some you win, some you lose. Modelling, like life isn’t a smooth, seamless journey without problems or setbacks. Ok that’s a bit dramatic. We left this saga at the point where most of the layout [more…]

Engineering

Shunting into colour

23rd April 2018 Sweaty Dave 0

A shorter update this time, primarily due to other activites taking precedence – not weather related over the past weeks, but the Easter holidays threw routines out of the window. The eldest came home and [more…]

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