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| Subject: | Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? |  |
| Date: | Feb 17, 2005 |
| From: | Steve Campbell | |
I'd like to know the lifespan of some display techniques (ground chalks, acrylic paints along with various solvents all in conjunction with each other) being used.
Stuff that gets a kit sold on e-bay or is “eye-catching” to some dubious official at a hobby comp. is not always something that will see out the last 30 years of my life. Already things that were in vogue 2 or 3 years ago now turn out to fade or discolor and will have rendered your prized possession useless (like the urine colored snow you end up with after a few months using one technique).
One other peeve is the modeler who replicates “wear and tear” on the running gear without thought (well with a lot of thought but inaccurate). It’s too heavy or too light. Earthmoving equipment, that employ solid metal caterpillar tracks for motivation, can be seen with bright metal tracks, not chrome bright but shiny none the less, after heavy use (equivalent to sandblasting the track faces). Carbon/graphite from a pencil is fine for slightly later oxidization than heavy use or if it’s occurring underwater (as all day in a swamp would expose them to extreme oxidization). Someone, of notoriety, did the teeth on the drive sprockets, the running face of the idlers and horns on the tracklinks of his kit but neglected to do the surface between the roadwheels that produced the guide-horn’s wear. Not much to complain about except that this kit has cleaned up a heap of awards and accolades for the owner where in fact it needs redoing (a glaring omission on a near pristine painted vehicle). The fun part is being called a “nit-picker” by an ex-plane builder who must use the painted surface to differentiate his chosen topic from others and now builds AFVs with the same mindset. I don’t mind this as sometimes I look at kits displayed here and truly wonder how we have both built the same thing that looks so totally different. A few have the ability to produce an accurately painted surface with subtlety (really, some of you have a true understanding of environmental conditions) but they get drowned by the “golly-gosh” fraternity.
Steve
(rant’n rave I know but hey....) |
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 | Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Saul Garcia - Feb 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - John Barnicoat - Feb 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Steve Campbell - Feb 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Paul A. Owen - Feb 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Ardell Bourgeois - Feb 18, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - David Byrden - Feb 19, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Steve Dowty - Feb 19, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Paging Professor Herbert - Paul A. Owen - Feb 19, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Al Crawford - Feb 19, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - John Prigent - Feb 20, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Great Point John! - Saul Garcia - Feb 20, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - David Byrden - Feb 22, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? (Longish) - Thomas Naser - Feb 21, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Does scale effect really exist for WWII AFVs? - Rick Bennett - Feb 22, 2005 |
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