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VOLUME 11. ISSUE 131. June 2016
REGULARS
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- EDITORIAL
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- NEWSLINE
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- EVENTS DIARY
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- CONTACTS DETAILS
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- NEXT ISSUE
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- FINAL THOUGHTS…
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EDITORIAL
Our doubts are traitors…
016 is the 400th anniversary of the
death of William Shakespeare and
while the Bard never wrote about
modelling, it could be said that some
kits out there are so old, they must
have been around when Bill was scratching out
another sonnet in Stratford.
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But ironically, Shakespeare’s lines from ‘Measure for Measure’ (Act
I, Scene IV) could easily apply to our hobby in as much as how can we
learn and progress our skills without pushing through the doubt that we
can achieve something better?
30 or 40 years ago, the lack of modelling media meant that for those
who did like their hobby, any scrap of information that could be found
was enthusiastically devoured. Any fledgling modeller with a few issues
“
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good
we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
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of Airfix Magazine and maybe a copy of How to Go Plastic Modelling frankly had a modelling
library to envied! But the information back then was read, and read again – photos in books and
magazine were often average quality and rarely in colour, so the words became all important.
What was being written was practiced - then practiced again. Bit by bit, skills started to develop,
often in complete isolation unless there was a local model club, or someone at school or in the
family who also made models.
Now in this age of social media, the photo reigns supreme. In many ways it’s great – being
able to see HD images of someone’s model can be truly inspirational. But equally, there seems
to be a disconnection where people are just seeing photos, seeing products being used, and
want to get those results. Magazines and books frequently take the reader through the steps
that went into making something, but how many people read and absorb how it was done and
just simply see a photo and think “I want that”? To use a crude metaphor, they want to play a
guitar solo like (insert your favourite guitarist here) but haven’t yet managed a few chords.
Do people want to advance their skills but by “fearing to attempt” they seek the short cut?
This is often no more typified by a photo of a product with the question “I bought this, what’s
it like?” Try it! See how it works for you! The paradox seems to be that many modellers want
improve their skills and their models, but perhaps lack confidence in themselves to try things,
maybe fearing that by making the same elemental mistakes pretty much every other modeller
has made, they’ll be laughed at? The proliferation of ready made products may also be adding
to that uneasy mix – modellers thinking they need to have a product at an early stage but
without ever honed their techniques in the first instance. And that’s not to decry the surfeit of
washes, filters, pigments that are out there, but sometimes it feels like someone’s bought a
Brian May red special guitar and they’re wondering why they’re not banging out “Bohemian
Rhapsody” from day one…
The flipside is that there’s no harm in buying an instant wash or filter, but practice using it,
take an old model get used to what it can and cannot do. There will be failures, but there will
also be success, but success is achieved by giving in to doubt. It’s also achieved by reading
how people achieve things then trying them out.
Every superbly finished, inspirational model out there has been the result of someone
doing their homework, practicing and honing their skills, taking on the doubt that they can do
something –and sometimes failing – and learning. And if things don’t work out, they go back and
find out why, they write it off as part of the learning curve.
Has an image-heavy age meant that while people can see the end result, they’re not finding
out how it was achieved? And often what they’re seeking can begin with a few basic steps they
can take themselves, that the good they seek to win needs only to have the doubt cast aside?
As the Bard once said, “failure isn’t about falling down, failure is staying down”. Or was that
Marillion? (Jonathan Mock)
IN THIS ISSUE…
W
elcome to the June edition of your
favourite aircraft modelling title! We hope
you have had a good month and that you
are raring to go with some new projects.
This month we bring you some very in-
depth features that run the gamut of both subject matter and
technique. The core of this month’s content centres around
three, comprehensive kit reviews: the Airfix 1:48 Defiant,
ICM’s Dornier Do17Z and the spectacular, HpH 1:32 Focke
Wulf Ta154 Moskito. Within these features you will find plenty
of thoughts of the products as supplied, but more importantly,
how to assemble the parts and then paint the results. All three
are fine kits - we show you how to make them even better!
Along with our kit reviews, we also have a fine feature on
the recreation of Robin Olds’ F-4C Phantom. Having been
inspired by this famous airman’s memoire, Carl Robertshaw
spent no less than three years building and painting as close
to perfect a replica as he could of Olds’ Phantom. As you can
imagine, the results are spectacular and we are delighted to
be able to tell the story in this issue.
So this then is the June issue of Model Airplane
International. We hope you enjoy it and that we see you again
next month. Happy modelling!
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