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Thanks Pat - I need to tighten up my seizing but I think the more I do, the better they'll look. 1st attempt at this stuff. For an inexpensive 1st wooden kit (and inexperienced modeler), I am pretty happy with the way she has come out. She's not 100% accurate, but she still looks good.
Hi,
I think your build looks great.
I know that I may be in a minority when it comes to detailing things but I kind of lean towards "if it looks fairly resonable" that is probably as good (or in some cases maybe even better than) trying too hard to 100% replicate something.
For a lot of older stuff its probably worthwhile noting that what we believe to be the "correct" way of showing something is sometimes only based on either a) someones interpretation of what was correct, b) a photo or drawing that may only show how something looked at one given point of time, or c) how it may have looked for a few specific examples. Specifically, in some recent posts on some airplane builds on the airplane subforum there has been some discussion on how the color of a certain part of the P-40 cockpit (behind the pilot) appears to have varied even amoung the same model number of the plane, so that just using a single photo or drawing may not give a full view of what "may" have been possible.
Additionally, as a slight aside I once had the opportunity to do some work in support of a maritime museum in California where they were intended to update a sailing ship that they had to show how she was configured at various points in her life on the opposite sides of the internal decks. On one side it was intended to display how she looked when she was a lumber carrier while the other side would show how she looked when serving as a fishing vessel.
I remember talking to one of the historians there who indicated that when the ship was outfitted to carry lumber they had "clips along the internal shell where the crew could fit batten (?) boards to protect the sideshell when loading/unloading cargo. He indicated that from some photos at the time it looked as if these pieces of wood may have had some specific "edge detailing" that they wanted to make sure that they correctly replicated. To me as an engineer I kind of just assumed that any "edge detailing" was likely either due to natural wear and or damage to the wood that you would expect from a "working" vessel, but the historian seemed to see it as "since something shows up in a photo it's probably something that needs to be researched and precisely replicated to be 100% authentic".
In the end I suspect that if they had just thrown in random pieces of banged up wood it would likely have looked reasonable and maybe even might have been potentially more correct than trying to replicate a specific photo, but maybe thats just me.
Ooops sorry for getting off track.
Keep up the great work.
Pat