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| Subject: | Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? |  |
| Date: | Jun 3, 2008 |
| From: | Alan Mckenzie | |
Hi Michael
Funnily enough I was thinking about this subject only a few minutes ago. I'm currently building the Zvezda boxing of the M3 White Scout Car. Now the moulds for this kit seemed to have travelled around the modelling world more times than any other model I know. I believe it to have started with Peerless Max, through to the likes of Italeri, Aifix, Zvezda and I think Revell have started to sell it.
Anyway I don't know if it's Zvezda's quality control but this kit has terrible flash and has more pin marks than I can remember any kit having. The detail itself if you consider its heritage is not bad but that's in respect to when it must have been first produced.
As I work my way through taking time to clean this kit up, fill in or remove the knock out pin marks in the back of my mind I'm thinking that if the moulds where produced today this would (hopefully) not be something I'd have to deal with and could concentrate on the real build and would have finished the kit by now, along with it having much more detail.
I also think the PE set for this would really lift it but do I want to spend that sort of money, and even more time trying to enhancing it further.
Knowing full well that one of the current manufacturers would do a far better job of creating this kit and I could concentrate on a clean and tidy build. After all my modelling time, as I'm sure is the case for all of us is limited, and I'd rather have a finished model on my desk than a half finished one with loads more to do that in a modern kit just wouldn't need doing.
Then I start to think of the collection in my loft, most of the AFV's are old kits from Tamiya and Italeri. Many purchased quite recently off of ebay. Why? because when I brought them last year nobody was making a modern moulded kit of this particular AFV. But that's not the case now ...gggrrrr
I'm also tormented by the words of a friend echoing in my head " You can polish a turd but at the end of the day underneath it's still going to be a turd."
The answer I think is not to judge your model making at what you feel you "should" be doing given what is available but more what you want to do to ENJOY yourself.
Oh course if putting older kits together when you know that "better" kits makes you feel unhappy and like not bothering maybe you shouldn't and sell them on to somebody who is happy doing so.
I've stopped buying kits because my purchase rate was getting to the point I was buying far more than I could ever hope to build. I'll now concentrate on making the best out of what I have already. Rather than add more new kits that may see them supersede with better kits anyway.
Alan |
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 | Old kits - fine art or outdated? - Michael Bedard - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - Brian J Tears - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - Robert Anderson - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - Alan Mckenzie - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - Jerry Plettenberg - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - George Stray - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - Alan Mckenzie - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Old kits - Option 4 [IMG] - Glenn Gerson - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - John Steinman - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - Doug Rogers - Jun 3, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? - David Nickels - Jun 4, 2008 |
| . . . . . . good points Dave! - Glenn Bartolotti - Jun 4, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Old kits - fine art or outdated? [IMG] - Russ Takashima - Jun 4, 2008 |
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