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So far I found the following passage in Stephen King's Pet Sematary:
…Louis was working on a model in his study. This one was a 1917 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost—680 pieces, over 50 moving parts. It was nearly done, and he could almost imagine liveried chauffeur, direct descendant of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English coachmen, sitting imperially behind the wheel. He had been model-crazy since his tenth year. He had begun with a World War I Spad that his Uncle Carl had bought him, had worked his way through most of the Revell airplanes, and had moved on to bigger and better things in his teens and twenties. There had been a boats-in-bottles phase and a war-machines phase and even a phase in which he had built guns so realistic it was hard to believe they wouldn't fire when you pulled the trigger—Colts and Winchesters and Lugers, even a Buntline Special. Over the last five years or so, it had been the big cruise ships. A model of the Lusitania and one of the Titanic sat on his shelves at his university office, and the Andrea Doria, completed just before they left Chicago, was currently cruising the mantel-piece in their living room. Now he had moved on to classic cars, and if previous patterns held true, he supposed it would be four or five years before the urge to do something new struck him. Rachel looked on this, his only real hobby, with a wifely indulgence that held, he supposed, some elements of contempt; even after ten years of marriage she probably thought he would grow out of it…
Are there any other books you know of?
Don't know of any specific to shelf scale plastic modeling. But a classic book about model engineering, the making of working machines such as steam and gasoline engines and such sort of machinery is Trustee from the Tool Room. It was by Neville Shoot, and is a mystery story.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Thank you, Don!
About ten days ago, I went to the Scottsdale Film Festival to see a German film (with English subtitles) called Dolores. It was about a scale modeler with a perfectionist streak who gets a request from an actress named Dolores who wants him to build a model of her mansion. As the film progresses, it becomes quite "Twilight Zone"-esque as the modeler learns that when he moves stuff in the model (a chair, for example), the corresponding real thing moves by itself. There's one scene where Dolores's chauffeur, who does not like the modeler, "accidentally" gets a big glob of glue all over the model--and the real mansion gets a big glob of glue in the same place.
"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"
Jim Barton About ten days ago, I went to the Scottsdale Film Festival to see a German film (with English subtitles) called Dolores.
About ten days ago, I went to the Scottsdale Film Festival to see a German film (with English subtitles) called Dolores.
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