Re: ABE'S EARLY TIGER 1 BUILD
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:55 am
TFTM...I guess we all have our individual quirks. You must know what it is like to look at a model, where a compromise was made and its is all you see every time you look at it!
I will have a go at the Aber if I have them ( bought so many bits I am forgetting what I have LOL ). Maybe when I test fit the Tamiya ones I might like them...who knows what I will find acceptable. Having spent time building a model, it has to be built for yourself..It doesn't matter in the end what others might be happy with, its what you will be happy with and we all go through that process before we deem something finished.
If I come up with an easy and cheap approach to the spiral tubes then I will have a bash..they might look rubbish in reality rather than in my head. If they work then its great, they will be on the tank...if they don't then its into compromise territory. We all compromise, we have too. Even when you buy top end stuff like Schumo, when you compare the parts to photographs, you can see that they are not always accurate and that they have had to make compromises based on manufacturing processes, materials and costs. Same with the Aber...its often way too thin scale wise, often even despite its tiny proportions...still too large scale wise...yet more compromises.
But then there,s the need to finish something so it does not take up your precious time for years on end. Its all an intricate balancing act played out time and time again in your head and finally your brain spits out a list of compromises you would find acceptable. My brain is still collating and will no doubt let me know the situation soon, so in the meantime I bash on.
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I will have a go at the Aber if I have them ( bought so many bits I am forgetting what I have LOL ). Maybe when I test fit the Tamiya ones I might like them...who knows what I will find acceptable. Having spent time building a model, it has to be built for yourself..It doesn't matter in the end what others might be happy with, its what you will be happy with and we all go through that process before we deem something finished.
If I come up with an easy and cheap approach to the spiral tubes then I will have a bash..they might look rubbish in reality rather than in my head. If they work then its great, they will be on the tank...if they don't then its into compromise territory. We all compromise, we have too. Even when you buy top end stuff like Schumo, when you compare the parts to photographs, you can see that they are not always accurate and that they have had to make compromises based on manufacturing processes, materials and costs. Same with the Aber...its often way too thin scale wise, often even despite its tiny proportions...still too large scale wise...yet more compromises.
But then there,s the need to finish something so it does not take up your precious time for years on end. Its all an intricate balancing act played out time and time again in your head and finally your brain spits out a list of compromises you would find acceptable. My brain is still collating and will no doubt let me know the situation soon, so in the meantime I bash on.
Thanks for stopping by. In the next episode we investigate the effects of large manufacturing corporations on the natural environment of developing countries, in a programme entitled " Is Greed destroying our planet"
Laters
