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| Subject: | Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing |  |
| Date: | Apr 27, 2006 |
| From: | Bruce Crosby | |
John,
Not all kit bashing is bunk, but a fair amount of it is, as it's based on printed drawings that in themselves (by their very nature) cannot be accurate in any objective sense, as I have already explained. However, there is a lot you can interpret from drawings, if you know what you are looking at. There is no substitute for original research on a real vehicle, but if you can't get to a museum or army base, or even to the foreign country where the tank is, drawings will have to suffice. As a for instance, I did a comparison article in Military Modelling a couple of years ago on the T-34/85 kits from Tamiya, DML and Italeri. A trip to Bovington Tank Museum, armed with camera, measuring tape and protractor was undertaken. I measured lengths, angles, thicknesses, etc on three different vehicles and was amazed how close they all where. I divided the figures by 35 and then measured the kits. The DML kit was the best, in fact just about spot on in every respect. BUT people still moaned and groaned about it. I could never work out why, as DML really (I can say this, hand on heart) did their homework on the kit.
Regards,
Bruce |
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 | Pz. IV Drawings Testing - Paul A. Owen - Apr 25, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - Kazutaka YOKOTA - Apr 25, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - Paul A. Owen - Apr 25, 2006 |
| . . . Even the best drawings lose something here and there - David Nickels - Apr 26, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Even the best drawings lose something here and there - Paul A. Owen - Apr 26, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - understnnding - Paul A. Owen - Apr 26, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - understnnding - Torben Nielsen - Apr 26, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Well again a reason NOT to use drawings - David Nickels - Apr 26, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - Bruce Crosby - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - John F. Steinman - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - Bruce Crosby - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - John F. Steinman - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - Bruce Crosby - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Is this the DaVinci Code for rivet counters? - Kip Rudge - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - John F. Steinman - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - Paul A. Owen - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Pz. IV Drawings Testing - John F. Steinman - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: That was my original question! - Paul A. Owen - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: That was my original question! - John Steinman - Apr 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: That was my original question! - Bruce Crosby - Apr 27, 2006 |
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