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Descent Into Dorkness
posted Monday, 24 April 2006
One of my favorite modeling magazines is Scale Aviation Modeller. In addition to their installments of Airfix how-to guides, they always have articles on resin kits of obscure aircraft and sprucing up old Airfix kits from the 1960s. It's esoteric and inspiring. I love it. And I'm convinced that hitting the hobby shops after reading these magazines is like grocery shopping when you're hungry.
Having inebriated myself on the works of these modeling madmen -- guys who spend night after lonely night scribing thousands of missing micro-rivets into 1:72 scale BAe Nimrod MR-2P's -- I was extremely vulnerable to the siren song of this little Matchbox 1:72 scale Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver sitting on the hobbyshop shelf.
The thing is toy-like; so much so that it comes on two different colored sprues making painting unnecessary -- if you want to build a toy. I, on the other hand, am a scale modeler [cue dramatic music]. This thing doesn't even come with a joystick, but I'm gonna run out and buy some plastic sheet and rod and really detail the sucker. For more of a challenge, I even got the kit with Chinese instructions. It'll be fun, right?
Having inebriated myself on the works of these modeling madmen -- guys who spend night after lonely night scribing thousands of missing micro-rivets into 1:72 scale BAe Nimrod MR-2P's -- I was extremely vulnerable to the siren song of this little Matchbox 1:72 scale Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver sitting on the hobbyshop shelf.
The thing is toy-like; so much so that it comes on two different colored sprues making painting unnecessary -- if you want to build a toy. I, on the other hand, am a scale modeler [cue dramatic music]. This thing doesn't even come with a joystick, but I'm gonna run out and buy some plastic sheet and rod and really detail the sucker. For more of a challenge, I even got the kit with Chinese instructions. It'll be fun, right?
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