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| Subject: | Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? |  |
| Date: | Mar 19, 2001 |
| From: | Tim Streeter | |
Hervé Charby Charbonneau wrote:
> To put it more simply: Do you put your underwear on first, or last?
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Well, it depends on the occasion! ;-)
But as far as modeling goes...I'm all over the map, as it were. But I
start out with pretty much the same approach. I have to know what I
want to do to the model, and then figure out whether the kit is capable
of of meeting my desires. (This, by the way, is the same approach I
took with women.) Then I have to factor in the aftermarket doodads or
any other significant alterations I'll need to make (also my approach to
women). Then I look at the instructions. Things can get quite
confusing if you're going back and forth between kit instructions,
photoetch instructions, and resin upgrade instructions. Quite often
I'll have several subassemblies going at once, and many times I will not
put fragile exterior parts on until the very end.
It's always a challenge to do an interior, and I'll usually try to
figure out how to paint it prior to assembly. Trucks, with their large
windows and enclosed cabs, get to be tricky, particularly if you leave
doors open to show off the insides. Knowing what to glue down inside,
where to mask, what should be left until later are all parts of the
jigsaw puzzle. I think Tamiya instructions, which people generally
agree are the best, really establish a sense of logic that one carries
with him to other kits, even if you don't necessarily do everything in
the order they direct.
It might be that most instructions start out with the running gear
because that's a spot where many people give up and set a kit aside?
Maybe the thought is to get the yucky stuff out of the way first, like
filing down seams on a couple dozen wheels. Perhaps this rudimentary
repetition helps one get into the zen of the rest of the kit. Or maybe
it comes from the old motorized vehicle days, when one was eager to get
the lower hull done so you could watch it scoot around the kitchen
floor.
Tim |
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 | Survey: Do you follow directions? [IMG] - Hervé CharbyCharbonneau - Mar 19, 2001 |
| . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - Clarence Prigent - Mar 19, 2001 |
| . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - Tim Streeter - Mar 19, 2001 |
| . . . . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - Neville Lord - Mar 19, 2001 |
| . . . Never! - Rob Plas - Mar 19, 2001 |
| . . . Directions?? - Richard Tellejohn - Mar 19, 2001 |
| . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - Olaf Kievit - Mar 20, 2001 |
| . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - Mike & Andrea Canaday - Mar 20, 2001 |
| . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - David Nickels - Mar 20, 2001 |
| . . . . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - Bruce Clark - Mar 20, 2001 |
| . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - Michael Siggins - Mar 20, 2001 |
| . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - Warrink Bros. - Mar 20, 2001 |
| . . . Re: Survey: Do you follow directions? - GI Gene - Mar 20, 2001 |
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