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Hi,
my name is Larry Marshall. I'm the chief cook and bottle-washer
here at Wood'n Bits. My efforts are supported by Chantal, my
wife, and Jodie, my daughter.
I've been a modeler most of my life, even spending 3 years as
editor-in-chief of a major hobby magazine. I've published over
100 articles on modeling and model building and I stopped counting the
number of models that I've built long ago.
Recently
(2005) I've been the recipient of an IGMA Guild School Scholarship for
which I'll be forever grateful. I also wrote a monthly column for
Dollhouse Miniatures
called Small Steps, where I discussed techniques and tools involved in
the creation of miniatures.
While I've been involved in many different hobbies, from trains, planes,
to automobiles, I can't remember being involved in any hobby-like
activity that didn't involve building things. I now enjoy building
miniature furniture and turning bowls, vases, and glasses because I
find a certain freedom that comes from modeling miniatures that can be
used in the creation of scenes or simply enjoyed for their own
beauty. I prefer working with wood but I'm pretty comfortable
with plastics and soft metals and occasionally use both in my work.
If you'd like to take a quick tour of my shop, such that it is, click here.
My
modeling has always been scale modeling as, to me, there's just
something very special about a model where the thicknesses and other
dimensions are 'right.' Over the 40 years or so that I've been
building miniatures I've come to realize that the eye is very good at
identifying deviations from 'right.' While it's debatable whether
that's good or bad, the discerning miniaturist keeps this in mind all
the time. I have lots of measuring devices (grin).
At
the same time, miniatures do have a life and dimensionality of their
own. There are times when deviation from 'exact copy' can
actually improve the illusion. Wood grain is one such place as
one must over-emphasize scale wood grain just a bit to convince the eye
that the model is, indeed, wood. The trick is to do it 'just right.'
Sometimes
colors need to deviate from the 'exact copy' in order to adjust for how
our eye perceives small things. This is fodder for a heated
debate over how to do it but most modelers agree that it's something to
be concerned about and we here at Wood''n Bits keep it mind always.
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Wood'n Bits is located in Québec City, the capital of the 'Belle Province'
of Québec. It, of course, is part of Canada, that huge
piece of real estate north of the U.S. Our coordinates are:
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Snail mail:
Wood'n Bits
51 Blvd des Alliés
Québec City, QC G1L 1Y3 Canada
Electronic:
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