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| Subject: | Nicely put, Mr Manning |  |
| Date: | Sep 6, 2005 |
| From: | Michael Withington | |
Very nicely put. I think you summed up modelling for many of us who started in the 70's (and where I grew up there were only two channels, both of them in black and white). I remember the first time I successfully achieved the Verlinden 'look' on an armour kit, and then realising that Verlinden had nothing to do with realism, and trying to emulate Shep Paine (who I still think was a genius - is he still around?)
I bailed out of military modelling when the aftermarket scene began to proliferate, and it was no longer good enough to approximate what you could make out from the few fuzzy photos you had in your stash of dog-eared reference books. Photo-etched stuff defeated me (and still does), and I could only look on with admiration as the standards of modellers continued to go higher. Now, when I see the models displayed in print publications, and on sites like this and Missing-lynx, I am constantly impressed by the models people are producing, and I despair of ever making a dent in the hoard of kits in my cupboard. I am slowly re-entering the game, with a couple of feeble 1:48 scale efforts. But I do miss the days when you got a new kit from Tamiya, or whoever, and started building it as soon as you got it home, often finishing it in a week or so, just to see a model that hadn't been done before. Modellers today are spoilt for choice, but I bet an increasing number of us are simply never finishing (or even starting) these wonderful new kits that are cranked out every week, partly because there is no longer enough time, and partly because getting everything 'right' adds so much to the time required to build a model.
I'm not old either, just very rusty. |
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