Dr. Coffee
the doog:
Dr. Coffee:
The tutorial aspect is the difference between inspiring people to become better at what they do, and driving them away from the hobby.
DoC
Dr Coffee, with all due respect to your well-intentioned sentiments and observations here, I would suggest that you try to post a WIP thread so that you get more insight into the actual process and difficulties of what you have articulated in your suggestions. Specifically, trying to find a way to photograph your actual technique-in-motion, as it were.
I remember seeing something a few months ago, about how to pain figure heads. Showed a lot of images at various stages, basic coats, basic shadows, highlights, blending... I also had the pleasure of enjoying your own tutorials on how to assemble armor tracks. Stuff like that strip of tape on the table, that lets you hold the tracklink in place before you glue it at the end. So it can be done.
On the other hand, I have more or less stopped buying FSM because the magazine contains less and less technique and seems to drift more over to discussing what details to convert, if one wants to model an obscure version of an arcane subject. Probably interesting to the afficionados of that obscure subject, but not what I am looking for. I pick up the ideas I need, like how to fill seems and gaps with putty and cleaning it with solvents, in other magazines.
A lot of people here have a lot to teach. The lurkers, like me, have a lot to learn. The question is how to have all these interests come together.
DoC