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In Hobby Heroes Luan Nel appropriates the miniscule plastic figures from specialist train set kits, so beloved of the Hobbyists for whom trains, and anything to do with them, are a life-sustaining passion. He stages these surprisingly idiosyncratic figures, ranging from punks to boy scouts, in a number of curious situations. Against pristine white backgrounds, ranging in size from the monumental to the miniature, groups of figures ski imaginary mountain slopes, sun themselves in deck chairs, ice skate and ballroom...