Monthly Archives: October 2023

The controversial opinion of a dioramist.  By guest writer Robert Blokker Go back five years or more at any decent event, and your mind would have been blown by the creativity and unique storytelling in dioramas and vignettes.  You could … Continue reading →

I added a buy me a coffee button to this blog. I know, some guys monetise everything, but please remember, reading this is free. The button is there in case you appreciate the blog and want to toss me a … Continue reading →

Over the last 24 hours, pretty much everyone has seen the infamous Rinaldi Studio Press video about SMC. For a moment, lets park most of the video and address his main point: The Lack of Risk Taking and Innovation in … Continue reading →

How many times have you seen someone beat themselves up for never finishing a model? Or abandoning a project unfinished? Who reading this, has a “Shelf of Shame”? Let me turn that on its head: Why is not finishing kits, … Continue reading →

Modelling, like any visual medium, has its own language. There are obvious tropes, like Tigers and Shermans and Spitfires and 109s, and there are modern modelling tropes like “‘heroic’ German retreats from Russia” models, whitewashed T-34s and Panzers with rusty … Continue reading →

I speak to a lot of people while I am writing these blogs. The ideas in them are not all my own imaginings, they are things I have learned from discussing issues with people like Tracy and Will on the … Continue reading →

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Then I’ll Begin…. A long time ago, in a far and distant land, modellers started saying ‘storytelling’ at each other in excited whispers. It started with the strange people of Diolandia, and soon the people of … Continue reading →