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Stash Binging
Posted on July 4, 2023
One for my modelling colleagues. The modeling stash. We’ve all got one, haven’t we? Remember when we came home from concorsos with this much gear? This was then. Before the crash of 2008 when money rained down like spring thunderstorms in England. We hoarded for our ever increasing stashes. So. …
The Apple of My Eye
Posted on June 28, 2023
‘Just because it’s old, doesn’t mean it no longer has purpose.’ Never is that more true than with Apple products. I had this old 2011 MacBook Pro gathering dust in a drawer in my Spain study because it packed it in back in 2018. Five years. I had it out …
Harvey & The Dragon’s Teeth
Posted on May 22, 2023
Sounds a bit like a Grimm’s fairy tale? Harvey and the Dragon Teeth. Afraid no. It’s wartime Folkestone. Since first visiting the Kent seaside town in 2003 I’ve wondered what happened to Folkestone during WW2? Surely it was important. Dab in the middle of Hellfire Corner during the Battle of …
Cranbrook
Posted on May 19, 2023
More apropos not possible. Posted to the St. Dunstan’s Playhouse kino in the midst of the Covid Pandemic in August of 2020 I keenly prescribe to the notion inspiration seeks us out and we mustn’t much worry about going looking for it like some old fool with a dodgy metal …
The Golden Age of Modelling
Posted on May 16, 2023
The pass to paradise We’re well into May now. 2023. I was thinking about Euro Militaire. And the brief reprieve we got from being thrown into the history bin thanks to Euro Miniatures Expo. I’m writing from Florida this moment. It might seem utterly queer to think of Euro in September …
Kit Kraft. My Local.
Posted on May 3, 2023
I’m a writer. By trade. Miniature modeller by passion. Since first laying eyes on an Airfix Spitfire in the window of a hobby shop in Brighton’s Lanes in the early 1970’s I’ve loved building plastic models. If you grew up in the ’70’s it is near a guarantee you built …