[WWI] Gratuitous posting

[Andy Bannister]

Joe:
> One thing always getws me doug is people do a model of a plane like you were 
> saying and get all kinds of grief about how this and that isnt correct. What 
> so many people dont stop and think about before running their derogatory 
> statements is that when you are modelling no matter what scale your doing it 
> in, you model the model exactly as the original you are duplicating. I mean 
> if someones doing the rhinebeck scheme then it better match that scheme no 
> matter how incorrect the rhinebeck one is. We are modellers trying to 
> duplicate a plane not duplicate an original if we are trying to model a 
> replicat. If the replica is incorrect so what our model better be incorrect 
> and those the people tick me off the so called purists that think you need 
> to fix the errors in your model that the museum didnt get correct.

Hmmm... ya lost me here Joe. I see your point and agree about the purists, but why in the world would you model a relica knowing full well it's incorrect when you could model the original in a more "accepted" scheme?? In other words, why would anyone want to model the Rhinebeck Seven Swabians D.VII in white when photos of the original clearly show it to be anything but white? The general consensus is grey with brown cowlings, but even if that is incorrect at least it's a lot closer than white. 

Regarding Michael's posting, I too am sorry to see him leave but I actually don't disagree with him. There are many times I would come home from work to find 79+ emails in my inbox, of which 78+ were complete rubbish. Yes, it only takes one click to delete the rubbish, but you still have to go through them all and read them to decide what's junk and what isn't. Admittedly, I was as guilty as anyone when it came to the one-liners or multiple emails of "Thanks for the nice comments about my model...", but at the time it was the nature of the beast and as no one complained about the quantity vs the quality of the list I went along with it. Some may note I don't post nearly as often these days and when I do I try to avoid the one-liners, etc. Not always successfully of course....
Perhaps the irony here is that the people who have left because of the amount of rubbish have also caused a decrease in the amount of useful information too, judging by the fact that list traffic in general has gone from 79+ emails a day to less than 20. 

Andy

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