Another Good Big Day In (May 2013) Master Wayne is going to be disappointed.  He insists that I write up events like our most recent Display Day for his amusement.  However, after this year’s display, I find that I don’t have much to say.  Why, you wonder.  Perhaps because the day seemed to last about…

A Magic Ride in the Golden Jaguar – To the Eastern Suburbs Kit Extravaganza (April 2012) Last year I slept in and so missed the opportunity of travelling down to Melbourne with Zim to witness the Eastern Suburbs swap and sell.  This year, not wishing to repeat that unfortunate performance, I set the alarm a…

A Goof MoBbish Day (April 2011) Living in Camp Hemsley has one advantage, it is closer to the Caro Centre that my old place.  A disadvantage to living there is that all my models are still in storage, except for the ones I’ve made while in the camp.  Usually I have a car full of…

Another Display Day at the Uni (April 2010) We did it again, another successful display day. Working feverishly behind the scenes in preceding months MoBsters did all the work necessary to make the day a success; organising the venue, organising the publicity, organising the raffle and then setting up all the tables the day before. …

The MoB’s Big Day In (April 2009) After months of anticipation there’s nothing more to anticipate, unless you’re starting to look forward to next year’s MoB display. Lots of MoBsters do lots of work behind the scenes to launch the day and it would be odious to name names because I’d have to name just…

The Heat Death of Desire (September 2008) We all have our crosses to bear.  Some of us spent our time in the armed forces, always guaranteed to create a warped and possibly cynical view of the world.  Some of us combat foreign full-fee paying students who think they have found new ways of fooling their…

1001 Models – The Three Musketeers go to Expo (June 2007) The Three Musketeers planned their adventure in detail on a cold, dark night in a remote area of Ballarat under a street light.  Wayne said he was thinking about going to Expo and I said I wouldn’t mind going to see what it was…

Travels in Time and Space (December 2006) The modelling club with the erotosymbolic name, the Bayonet Club, held its annual competition and swap and sell early in November Previously Wayne and I had gone to Werribee for the day but this time Wayne hit upon the brilliant idea of making a club event of it.…

A Pleasant Saturday’s Amusement (November 2005) The last time that Wayne and I went driving to a swap and sell event we got lost.  Well, not so much lost as misplaced.  We were on the right road heading in the right direction but we missed the turn-off because we were lost in a discussion of…

The MoB Goes to Market (November 2004) If you were to ask me, it was all dreamed up by Wayne and Terry so it’s their fault.  While they had me a captive in the car on our way to a swap-and-sell down in Melbourne one of them said something like,’We should have one too’.  ‘That’s…

Tons of Tanks (December 2003) It’s now got to the stage when Wayne tells me we have to be away by some ungodly hour of the morning to be in Melbourne for some modelling event I just sigh deeply and set the alarm clock.  At least, at this time of the year it isn’t pitched…

Another MOB sortie into Melbourne (September 2002)This time the MOB’s sortie down into the jaws of the IPMS Swap & Sell was organized like a well oiled machine and, for the most part, it worked like one too.  MOBster Darren was taking down a trailer for the stand he was setting up so the others,…