So Red Pill is showing off their upcoming 1/32 F-4B Phantom at Nats this weekend, and as pictures are landing on the socials, one question keeps tearing through my brain: Is it possible to short a model company? I’m sorry. This just seems like the n-millionth time I’ve seen this play out. Modelers say they…
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The Public Thing
“Is modeling art?” It’s one of those questions that never seems to go away. I’ve been skeptical for years. Not because modeling isn’t art, but because “art” has been stretched so thin as a label that it’s practically lost all meaning. I’ve tended to view modeling as an activity, or if that isn’t lofty enough,…
2024 – All quiet on the western front
2024 has been a pretty big year at Casa Doogs, with one notable exception – modeling. The high hopes I brought into the year fizzled pretty quickly. And as I write this, I haven’t so much as touched a model in over two months. Since the beginning of October. Which just so happens to be when…
Done with 1-2-3
I spoiled myself this weekend. To the extent that I now have serious doubts about whether I’ll ever be able to stomach a 1-2-3 IPMS show again. The TLDR This might turn into a long post and if you don’t have the time/inclination for that, I’m not going to make you wade through my fevered…
1/16 Sherman Tracks – 5 Types Now Available!
Happy to announce that my latest batch of downloadable tracks – a whole gaggle of sets designed for 1/16 scale Shermans and other VVSS vehicles – are now available over on Patreon and Cults3D. 5 track types In total, 5 track types are available, all designed to fit Andy’s Hobby Headquarters M10s and Achilles (and…hopefully…future…
FAQ: TBD-1 Edition
It seems like every single post I make documenting my progress on the TBD-1 Devastator attracts questions I’ve already answered at least five times. In the interest of not posting a short novel with every single pic, not answering the same questions over and over again, and trying to remember that I’m the only one…
Focus Points for 2024
As 2023 races to a close, I find myself looking to 2024, and what I want to accomplish. I don’t particularly subscribe to resolutions. I hate goal-setting at work. But I think it can be useful, especially after a year of systemic breakdown, to have some kind of direction in mind. Besides, from bitter experience,…
2023: well that happened
In order to understand my 2023, you really have to start with my 2022. 2022 was the year the wheels kinda-sorta came off my life. I spent months going to various specialists trying to get to the bottom of mystery pains. I left one job for another, and got tossed aside in layoffs six months…
Musings on Creativity
The past week or three have been so full of hot takes about creativity and innovation – or the lack thereof – that it’s feeling like the rhetorical equivalent of a Soviet artillery barrage. And watching the shells rip by, something about the whole whatever this is just hasn’t sat right with me. I couldn’t…
Don’t Buy These Wheels (They Suck)
I’m not a fan of vinyl tires. Never have been. Awful paint adhesion, difficult to remove mold seams, awkward gaps and fit with the wheels, all of it. Generally, if it has vinyl tires, they’re getting replaced by resin. The only exceptions in my display cabinet are when there literally were not wheels available (that’s…