OOB or detailed?

Gee ,GAF ;

 I thought I was the only one with that problem !   T.B.

I know my modeling would be so much easier and I can get more kits built if I were to just build OOB but some kits just cry out for that extra detailing like aircraft cockpits and ejection seats. Or adding all those PE railings on a 1/700 or 1/350 scale ship which really does improves the overall appearance of a model ship.

OOB

Brian Miller

I was just curious how many people are strictly OOB or do you detail the heck out of the model? I was a strictly a OOB 700 scale modeler until a few months ago. I decided to take my time and put some details into it. Some aftermarket AA guns and half of the PE fret later and it was the best model I've ever made. Instead of build  model just to finish it and put it on the shelf. I took my time and im looking forward to the next IPMS contest to see what it will do. Maybe nothing but I'm proud of my build and that's what matters. So if you haven't tried to detail a model, just try it and you may be surprised what you come up with. 

Hard to imagine the model ship scene without aftermarket superdetailing... I definitely couldn't get this look without it:

(1/200 Nelson with Pontos detail set)

Still, I think crazy superdetail sets and the resulting internet eye-candy have probably led to lots of burnout, unfinished megaprojects and today's relatively quiet modeling forums as modelers (being mostly men answering the call of manly nature) inevitably compete with each other to try to put out the most awesome looking stuff online and/or feel "unworthy" because their build didn't involve twice the cost and 3-4 times the work as a "normal" OOTB build.

Maybe forums should divide like IPMS into "out of the box" and "superdetailed" build logs?

 

 

 

 

GAF

I tend to not be satisfied until I have the radio working and the landing lights on.

 

I must admit that detailing is an interesting form of punishment.  

While I'm happy to see a nicely detailed aircraft, a model's outward appearance is more important to me than some part inside the cockpit that will never be seen by human eyes again.  Sometimes you just have to say, "Is this really worth it?"  Wouldn't that time be more valuably spent working on another model?

I will never be accused of being a great modeler.  I'm too middle of the road in my detailing for that.

Gary

 

 

^ This. 

building and detailing a model is what separates us from 'collectors' (where you buy it and stick it on the shelf). I have a few prebuilt diecasts, but it feels unsatisfying to just pull it out of the box and stick it on the shelf with none of my own blood and skin embedded in it.

For most of my life I was an OOB guy, and then made the mistake of doing a resin Dejah Thoris for a friend. The OCD kicked in, and now I can't build a kit without detailed the living hell out of it. I'm gonna have to force myself to go and build a cheap kit quick and dirty and just leave it that way, to get it out of my system.