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| Subject: | Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? |  |
| Date: | May 3, 2008 | |
| From: | Christopher C. Tew | |
Brian, I look at it as an interesting aspect of the human condition. We (humans) are supposed to be capable - to an extent not known among other animals - of learning from the past, which can be read as correcting our mistakes or building upon past knowledge. In that light, there's no excuse for having to reinvent the wheel and then getting it wrong.
I first becaime aware of the rivet-counter syndrome when the Hasegawa P-47s came out and a respected a/c modeler went into a hissy fit over the shape at the rear of the cockpit. As it turned out, the much maligned Airfix company had got the over all profile and the tapered canopy/rear deck right years earlier (and, typically, covered the whole a/c with rivets), and a smaller US company had copied the Airfix kit without rivets, so that there were two correctly shaped kits readily available while Hasegawa was busy producing a "detailed" kit with the best of then modern tooling that represented a squared wheel. The same thing happened more recently with Fine Molds Me 410 series with its rather unusual elevator alignment vs the older but essentially correct Matchbox 410 (well, excusing theprops and skinny wheels and tires (tyres).
I found that modeler's squawking irritating at the time, but now I realize that he was exactly right. If you want to fix the problems, you have to have the correct information. If you don't want to or can't, then that information is still interesting in an historical sense. If you don't care, then you can speed read through it, just realizee that you'll probably win few contests with that attitude. Today's whiners seem to me to be at least as much among the "don't care" crowd as among the rivet counters. The "don't cares" don't want their world of gentle summer breezes upset by a blast of winter cold. And you are right that there is a hint of hypocracy in what they say.
What irritates me about Academy's errors, and to DMLs to an extent, is that they reflect porly on the human condition. There is simply no excuse for making square wheels when the round ones are already available (and in Academy's case, available in house). They haven't learned diddlysquat since the Tamya kits of the 1970s. DML can make truly excellent kits, but I don't like their rush to market with an inferior product to beat out a rival. The solution to that is simpler - just wait for reviews and the opinions of more experrienced modelers who do want to count rivets. |
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 | If it looks like a "duck" ? - Brian J Tears - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . What year car do you drive? - Kip Rudge - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . ??? Think you are missing Brian's point, Kip - Kurt Laughlin - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: ??? Think you are missing Brian's point, Kip - Kip Rudge - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: ??? Think you are missing Brian's point, Kip - Brian Bocchino - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - David Manning - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . 1978 Pz IV's vs the real thing - Robert Gregory - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - steve campbell - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Two Responses - Rob Ervin - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - Juan Contreras - May 2, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - Christopher C. Tew - May 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: If it looks like a "duck" ? - Scott Fraser - May 3, 2008 |
| . . . This really is simple... - Kip Rudge - May 3, 2008 |
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