Ya know guys, im gona drag this up once more... but not for the origional reason.
I have witnessed, in multiple categories, a lack of fundimentals in the past two days.
First is not necesserially a 'witness' of one, but in my brass methods (learn to teach brass instruments) we had an entire lecture on what can go wrong, and problems can come up, and how to fix them (not easy) if student does not learn the fundimentals of playing.
I'm in my wind ensemble in college today, our snare drummer (who is really a singer and floutist, I am the only percussionist that can play all the instruments, and the ONLY one that can do timpani, so Im stuck back there. I had to sit, and watch, piano player who can sort of play the traps (and got stuck in my section (im senior member and section leader) because of that traps playing, fumble around and try to get a roll, it was one of the worst sounding things I ever heard. None ever taught her how to roll, thats freaking the second thing you need to learn! Four percussionists, one was stuck at the mallets, and me at the timpani... and none of the avaliable ones could do a roll, its college for god sakes.
Now im starting to see model kits, that have... while not good color choices imho... good paint jobs. Clean, smooth, semi well done pannel lining (sort of thick, or not done at parts)... but there are seamlines that were never fixed.
When I posted my thing on bakuc, which did NOT recieve a welcome reply, the real over arching theme was they did not want to 'scare new modelers away'
To that, I really have one thing to say. If I have a choice, 100 crappy butt modelers who cant fix a seam, or 12 who work on it, and end up making things as good as Doog's or ChuckW's builds, I will take the 12 thank you very much