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| Subject: | Re: Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings |  |
| Date: | May 16, 2007 |
| From: | Tim Streeter | |
Good question(s) Saul.
Branding is one significant consideration. TL has built up its brand as the home of (predominently) tracked vehicles---and other wheeled AFVs. In the same way that my site, Modeling the US Army in WWII (www.usarmymodels.com), would begin to lose its integrity if I began to feature German or Japanese kits, TL would significantly change if it strayed too far from its original purpose.
That's not to say that this community shouldn't be able to occasionally share its non-AFV projects with one another. It's fun to see how others challenge their skills or take a break from AFVs. But TL would become something different if it had a formal ship section and a plane section. It could find itself struggling with its identity that same way Armorama struggled and eventually evolved into a affiliated conglomerate of modeling sites. Do we need another such site? I don't know. I think Jim does what he does pretty well over there, just as Terry runs a great site at PMMS and Brett does a fine job with ML and Hyperscale. I'm sure there are many other fine plane and ship sites. Why reinvent the wheel? Why invite thematic "mission creep?"
Regarding AFVs of other scales, I don't know that Gallery entries always identify their scale, so there may be more representation of 1/48 and 1/72 kits than we realize. But more could be done to promote those specific scales here, such as contests and encouragement for more participation in those DGs. I've bought several of the new Dragon 1/72 kits and have been paying much more attention to the Small Scale group than I used to.
My .02,
Tim |
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 | Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings - Saul Garcia - May 15, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings [IMG] - Frank Forster - May 15, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings - Damon Agretto - May 15, 2007 |
| . . . In the larger picture... - Paul A. Owen - May 15, 2007 |
| . . . . . . A non-AFV theme contest ...? - Paul A. Owen - May 15, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings - David Manning - May 15, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings - Terry Ashley - May 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings - Paul A. Owen - May 16, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings - Terry Ashley - May 16, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: New Non AFV 1/35th scale kits - Saul Garcia - May 16, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Non AFV 1/35th scale kits and more ramblings - Tim Streeter - May 16, 2007 |
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