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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Hobbying In Place #4 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

More Finishing...Ugg.


This upper panel is a problem. Highly visible, unless the seam matches the other seams, it will be highly noticeable. I.e., it will look wrong. And this is a secret to quote good modeling unquote. Consistency.

Monday, March 23, 2020

Hobbying In Place #3 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

Welcome to the Dust Farm!


So, I am literally forced to use putty from time to time. When the the nice people appear to enforce this, I use Tamiya basic type. If it were not so expensive I would spread it on bagels and bathe in it. Let's move on.

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Hobbying In Place #2 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

Building the 1/72nd Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2.


Today we are going to do a lot of fillink and sandink. Here was that big gap from part 1, now properly sanded flush. Pretty exciting.

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Hobbying In Place #1 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

Building the 1/72nd Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2.

Once more “Joy” springs up like a weed during this time of pandemic meltdown. So let's get down into the weeds and learn how this scale modeler practices the fine art of social distancing. This is an art form in which I am well schooled. Let’s begin.

Victor from Butch O'Hare Show
For the last couple of weeks I have been downstairs building the 1/72nd Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2. Typically I claim to build either Soviet or Japanese in 1/32nd scale. This is none of those.

Monday, December 2, 2019

So very Tired...

The last few weeks I have been so very tired. No energy...one might even say "sad", but of course this would mean that either I or someone who knows me would be admitting that I do have emotions after all.


Too something to do real work (as if doing one's hobby was real work), so I pull out boxes of half built kits. The potential of finishing an old project, thinking about what could be...at least it's distracting.

Monday, November 18, 2019

Mandalorian Toe Clippings

Imagine you are listening to this music:


Through your eye balls you see these two tiny things, things that if you told someone they were toenail clippings, let's say, and you made three matching pairs, well OK. This is why when my wife asks about my hobby I grunt. Because if she knew I was remaking toenails she would have to think about that.