Is this modelling ?

I don't consider it "modeling" per se. and to be honest, I didn't notice the captioning until now!

But I agree with you 100%! If you look at all the great modeling here on these forums alone, I would think that there would be more honest integrity in publishing one of our boys' "ground-up" creations than an R/C "make-over"?

The tank itself looks nicely finished with what the guy did with the weathering, and the photgoraph itself is superb, but if you look at the actual labor involved, and what he claims to have done--lengthening the barrel and merely rotating the cupola and pistol ports--well, that's not modeling, that's rearranging the furniture!

Not to hijack the thread... but how did someone in Australia (great country BTW) get their copy of FSM before I did?  I'm ONE STATE over from Kalmbach. 

I did see it while browsing the new FSM at Border's Saturday night.  It's a...different type, I guess.  I am in agreement with 'le doog' though.  Much more could be shown from some of the builds on these forums...I suppose that FSM tries to keep it balanced by throwing in off subjects (and building styles) from time to time.

I'd say it's no different than someone who builds a model from scratch (raw materials such as wood) thinking that someone who merely assembles a plastic or resin kit isn't a real modeler.

The only way I could see this as a problem would be at a contest, not sure how they would catagorize this.

Personally I'd say if he took the effort to unassemble, improve, and reassemble it, it qualifies as modeling. There are many different levels of modeling, to me it's all just a creative outlet.

My brother in law puts diecast cars together with a screwdriver and calls it modelling.

I call it lame.

Lacquer Head wrote:

My brother in law puts diecast cars together with a screwdriver and calls it modelling. I call it lame.

the rest of us who use kits are assemblers

DURR wrote:

Lacquer Head wrote: My brother in law puts diecast cars together with a screwdriver and calls it modelling. I call it lame.    well MAYBE technically the only TRUE modelers are scratch builders the rest of us who use kits are assemblers

OH GOOD GOD! That just jarred loose a memory.

Who was that guy who used to post here (still does?) Who had a website and basically claimed that anyone who didn't scratch build every single thing wasn't a true modeler but merely a "kit assembler"

BigSmitty wrote:

Not to hijack the thread... but how did someone in Australia (great country BTW) get their copy of FSM before I did?  I'm ONE STATE over from Kalmbach.  I did see it while browsing the new FSM at Border's Saturday night.  It's a...different type, I guess.  I am in agreement with 'le doog' though.  Much more could be shown from some of the builds on these forums...I suppose that FSM tries to keep it balanced by throwing in off subjects (and building styles) from time to time.

Big Smitty.

Mine arrives via New Zealand.  (New Zealand postmark) so maybe they are firing them over the Pacific in a giant catapault or something......

David Merriman, started this concept on the old RMS USENET newsgroup. Anyone who built kits were just kit assemblers. Only true modelers built from scratch.

I would think that if you disassembled the model and made some major change to the model, i.e. added an interior, engine, detailed it out, then it would be modeling.

Kit building is model building.  Scratchbuilding is model making

~Dave

djrost_2000 wrote:

Kit building is model building.  Scratchbuilding is model making ~Dave

Ah,  you dodged the original question..........