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I agree wholeheartedly...

July 17 2012 at 4:37 PM		   (Login GastonMarty)
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Response to Is this a 1/48 scale armour Discussion Forum? ...
Two things I have noticed in the last few months, and this is accross ALL modelling forums:

1-A huge slowdown in new posts, or at least of interesting posts that actually bring up some substantive issue... Summer months maybe: Brett Green predicted a pick up being typically in August or September as the Nationals approached...

2-On this board in particular, there is now little but in-progress discussions, or group-build theme in-progress builds, all looking much the same and devoid of information I could or would use...

Absolutely zero relevant criticism of any kits, but then that is supposedly unwanted anyway so...

I have to say I have never found painting techniques tutorials to be terribly useful: This is more something you have to work out on your own, like phys-ed workouts, rather than reading about irrelevant techniques using, to me, irrelevant (or unavailable) products in irrelevant ratios with irrelevant tools for irrelevant purposes...

Even detail-adding builds are fun to watch, but hardly relevant to what is interesting and essential enough for anyone to actually imitate... Correcting an aircraft's wrong fin, or using a resin cockpit, by contrast, is something a lot more likely to be relevant to a lot of modellers who will actually do the very same thing...

I am not going to imitate scratch-built rivet details from an in-progress build, and probably neither will the vast majority of modellers out there... I will most likely not replicate the peculiar stowage I have already seen on a built armor model either, but on the contrary would try to come up with something completely different when I see it...

But if a basic feature like a wheel sprocket is completely the wrong kind for that variant, like 6 bolt wheels on the Italeri tanker truck instead of 8 bolt, for instance, then I definitely will try to get a replacement...

The Perth Military Modelling Site used to do substantive reviews of 1:48th kits, and though I criticized his ignoring the hugely mismatching mantlets sizes on his Skybow/Tamiya Tiger 1 comparison, I certainly found this type of thing far more subtantive than much of what you see here...

How about a compilation of what can be done to fix the Hobby Boss Shermans?

I will post a few basic correction builds in a few months, and see how this goes...

Gaston Marty









    
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