Threads tagged #curiosity

Little Paul - 2013-04-24 12:23:56 UTC - Parent #

There seems to be a (slightly odd) group of people who are "fans of circus" in general, but who have no interest in learning any of the skills or doing anything other than read about, talk about, or watch circus acts. There are magazines for them, clubs they can join (CFA/kingpole spring to mind, but circus in the USA got much bigger than it ever did in the UK so the nostalgia scene is likely to be even bigger!) and all that stuff.

There are also a lot of people interested in model building beyond model trains, so it's not that surprising that the two interests have met. I've been to several model engineering shows over the years, and there's almost always someone with a working model of a fairground or midway. I've also seen more than one model railway/tram/bus layout with a "country fair" in the landscape, so there's another market.

What I really like about these circus models though is that all the tents have cutouts in the top. They've modelled the inside scene as well as the outside scene. you don't often see that in the model railway world.

I don't have anywhere near the patience required to model anything as detailed as this stuff, so I really admire those who do!

Orinoco - 2013-04-30 12:02:28 UTC - Parent #

There seems to be a (slightly odd) group of people who are "fans of circus" in general, but who have no interest in learning any of the skills or doing anything other than read about, talk about, or watch circus acts.

It's odd to us certainly. But if you replace 'circus' with 'football' in that sentence it still works.

Little Paul - 2013-04-30 14:32:23 UTC - Parent #

yup! Replace circus with football - and I still find people like that rather odd :)