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THE "UNBUILDABLE" KIT?

Should have told him that Japan received a huge supply of Georgia White Pine before the war and that you know for a fact that Shidehara Bunzo of the Saitama Furniture and Pawn Shop hand finished all those nav tables using Minwax #32...but I doubt he would have gotten the point.
 
If the wood was too dark, I'd say "The navigator spilled his coffee". Too light? "He cleaned the spill with bleach". And then, "That's not woodgrain, it's towel marks from his poor cleaning job".

Then I'd poke him in eye and walk away.
 
MrT said:
What I think is bad is that they raise such fuss about things that most people can't see.

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Man, I see that all the time on the Missing Lynx Braille Scale Forums. I'm constantly amazed when someone totally trashes a 1/72 scale tank kit because it has 15 lug nuts on the drive sprocket instead of 17! Who can even see that, especially under all the dirt and weathering put on the model? GEEEZ!! My feeling is "Hey, does it look like the (tank/truck/aircraft/ship/boat) I'm trying to build? Then it IS the (tank/truck/aircraft/ship/boat)I'm trying to build!"

It's a MODEL! It is supposed to represent the subject that is is supposed to look like. It ain't supposed to be a shrunk-down complete replica; if you want one of those, develop a shrink-ray and go shrink one down!

My definition of an "Unbuildable" model is anything from Armageddon or Maquette Kits. Believe me, I've built them and know from whence I speak. Which means they aren't unbuildable in the strictest definition of course. Still; with Armageddon or Maquette Kits, you have to fight the pieces together, and then carve and sand the model from the resulting block of plastic parts you just built. This of course leaves you with enough plastic shavings and dust to make a whole 'nother model!

Chill out people! It's just a HOBBY!
 
For me an there really is no such thing as an "unbuildable" kit. Just kits that I decide not to build because they fit together so poorly that I get mad and it isn't fun anymore. I do get tired of the massive hyperbole that is spewing from a few certain rivet counters that usually don't have the kit in hand and usually don't build anything anyways. To me it is just insane to bash a kit that is something like 1 millimeter to long or to short. Or my personal favorite complaining about a canopy that is raked back like 1 degree to much. I mean really can you actually even see that with the naked eye. I use calipers every day at work and can tell you for a fact that I can measure the same artifact out in the field 10 times in a row and come up with slightly different measurements. My point being that it is way easy to mix up a measurement that small. I thinks some people just have to much preoccupation with size :rotf :rotf :rotf But I do have fun trolling the rivet counters from time to time. :evil:
 
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To add my $0.38 to the conversation..

All my kits are unbuildable... until I decide to get my hands dirty, fingers sticky (from GLUE you savages) and smell up the house.

I, innocently, asked one time where a guy got his RLM paints from? They certainly weren't anything like the references I have and I was curious (so I could avoid those paints). He savaged me on the forum and emailed me something so wretched that I decided that that was it for me. I still belong... but that is it...

We are significantly more mellow here... or maybe it is just we are all on very God Drugs!
 
Barney said:
To add my $0.38 to the conversation..

All my kits are unbuildable... until I decide to get my hands dirty, fingers sticky (from GLUE you savages) and smell up the house.

I, innocently, asked one time where a guy got his RLM paints from? They certainly weren't anything like the references I have and I was curious (so I could avoid those paints). He savaged me on the forum and emailed me something so wretched that I decided that that was it for me. I still belong... but that is it...

We are significantly more mellow here... or maybe it is just we are all on very God Drugs!
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Did those RLM colors look a bit like this :rotf :rotf :evil:

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Duke Maddog said:
It's a MODEL! It is supposed to represent the subject that is is supposed to look like. It ain't supposed to be a shrunk-down complete replica; if you want one of those, develop a shrink-ray and go shrink one down!

Chill out people! It's just a HOBBY!
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Well said Maddog!

I have to say I haven't had the direct experience of running into any rivet counters yet myself but have seen a few examples of some of the fall outs on other threads caused by them. There certainly are those individuals who take accuracy to a whole other level. (They should have a forum just for themselves!)

I know more than half of the aircraft kits in my stash are limited run styrene and resin kits and I guarrantee that all of them have some issues relating to accuracy but many of them are the only available kits of that particular aircraft. I guess my biggest question to myself is, "do I care about the accuracy of the kit or do I care about building that aircraft that I want to add to my collection?"

I choose the latter! :D
 
nerdling said:
Barney said:
To add my $0.38 to the conversation..

All my kits are unbuildable... until I decide to get my hands dirty, fingers sticky (from GLUE you savages) and smell up the house.

I, innocently, asked one time where a guy got his RLM paints from? They certainly weren't anything like the references I have and I was curious (so I could avoid those paints). He savaged me on the forum and emailed me something so wretched that I decided that that was it for me. I still belong... but that is it...

We are significantly more mellow here... or maybe it is just we are all on very God Drugs!
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Did those RLM colors look a bit like this :rotf :rotf :evil:

FRESHWATER28129.jpg
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Off topic but Nice catch!!!! (y)
 
Ahem, most of you have run into me... a bona-fide, card carrying, rivet and bolt counter (requires two certificates) but it is all in the approach. You see, I got sick around the time that the trimester zoned in on being a rectal orifice but I had enough credits to pass so I didn't take the class.

If you don't believe me about being a rivet or bolt counter, make the mistake of asking me for references and not be ready for a deluge!

Seriously, the way I see it is that I (as in me, myself and I - the Trinity of One) enjoy trying to add the detail. I think no less of anyone who builds out of the box. My main question is, are they enjoying themselves?

Regards,
 
My builds are not accurate but i try as good as i can to make them presentable.

What i have seen on shows is that if you don't go all the way with PE and resin extras and adding those almost impossible to see details you are not one in the gang, am i wrong?

There is a distance between normal modellers that enjoy building for the fun of it, and the ones that spend 5 years on making that perfect Stug from 3rd december 1944 at exactly 4:29PM before the commander decided to throw he's helmet on the fender causing a scratch there!

I just wonder... are they having fun? or is it just a job to stay in the gang of popular modellers club?

there are ofcourse exceptions to the rule :) and there you find some really great modellers that share their knowledge without slapping you on the fingers telling you what you did wrong.

I build for fun, and not for someone else! and if i get some positive constructive reactions i'm very happy :dance

//Mats
 
I can see the fun in making THE accurate model...however I think it is such a time consuming effort that
it is not for me.
Having fun,that's all that counts. :drinks


Greetings,Ron.
 
sharkmouth said:
Seriously, the way I see it is that I (as in me, myself and I - the Trinity of One) enjoy trying to add the detail. I think no less of anyone who builds out of the box. My main question is, are they enjoying themselves?

Regards,
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And that is what sets you apart and makes you a cut above the rest. I also know several others who do the same, but they are few and far between. I enjoy myself building out of the box, because I can see the finished projects in months or weeks, not years. That's part of what makes it fun, along with the journey. I thank you on behalf of all others who build like me, for being supportive and helpful without looking down on us for our chosen way of building models.
 
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