My dear fellow modellers,
I see that most of you believe that TAMIYA it is the brand, most to be trusted blindly.
We cannot overlook many excellent models of HASEGAWA, Revel and Monogram, that both play big role in the history of plastic modelling and their philosophy is also true modelling.
Please allow me not to say the name of my most preferable brand.
Something anyhow, I can say as my opinion, it is that precision and scholastic detail it is appreciated but not all the way the most important. I find much more important the “journey” we take, into building a certain kit.
It is like a well-known Greek poem, said: it is not that important to arrive to ITHACA than the journey on the way to ITHACA (the Homeric Odyssey would never have been known if the Ulysses journey was only a few days long and very dull).
Some times perfection is a heavy load on the building bench. The “modelling journey” must be cool and pleasant, with nice and relaxed moment, admiring what we can do with our creativity and ideas, always with modesty and sharing what we love with the other fellow modellers.
That is why I love building models and I am happy to be with modellers.
They know what I know, they feel what I feel, … we understand each other, we share the same experiences.
Some times I feel regret for the people buying ready built models, like the die casts. They miss the journey, the feeling ……
Living in the age of fast food anyhow, unfortunately fast entertainment had to happen too!
So after all, I would choose blindly the brand that would take me to a pleasant journey, from the moment I look to it’s nice box art, the tidy and well arranged contence, the good assembly instructions, the good and trouble free fit of parts, the clever brake down of the model in parts, and the excellent scale appearance of the finished model.
Now, you may know, what I would blindly trust ……..
Happy modelling, wherever you are my friends!!
Costas Kalfakis
From Athens Greece
please forgive me if my knowledge of English is not very good.