Personally I agree with Harlan Ellisons notion that now we have stopped believing in our old gods that new gods will come into existence, Terry Pratchett to some extent has appropriated this in his books also. I often pray to the parking gods for a spot though they are ever very capricious.

I think modellers worship various modelling gods. There is of course the well known carpet monster that swallows model parts on a regular basis in every modellers area. There is also the god of random physics that operates around my desk, the dropped parts that seem to travel to random parts of the room in spite of all laws of physics. I always start looking for parts a good 3 foot away from where they could possibly be and often find them there.

Then of course there is the god of Kit Releases. Often times the best way to get your long sought kit of the Sopwinkel Hippotamus is to buy the vacform kit if it is available so that the god realises you have made a sacrifice in buying a horrible kit. You may then be rewarded. Ive bought the Airfix and HiPM Bv 141 in this belief, but am yet to be blessed with the long rumoured Special Hobby one 😦

More on modelling gods another day.