[WWI] 'show and tell'

[Steven Perry]

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> Steven Perry wrote:
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>>   Yeah, howdhedodat???
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>>   That is one of the best 1/72 represntations of turnbuckles I've ever 
>> seen. Not over-scale at all.
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> I'm guessing little blobs of paint. I've done it for insulators & bungee 
> cords on aerials and it works really well.

I keep a bottle of half dried up Testors gold and silver mixed for just that 
purpose. This fellow pulled it off better in this scale than I ever have.

Another thing I'm greatly impressed with is the sheet metal on the nacelle. 
The riviting is very nice and even.

The mathematically unchallenged among us have frequently "done the math" on 
scale thicknesses of wires and other items we'd call "details". I'll take 
their math for it, but what I take away with me is that the smaller the 
scale, the easier it is to be over-scale on details.

I'd be willing to bet that if truly accurate measurements could be made and 
compared with accurate 1:1 dimensions, even these turnbuckles are 
over-scale. The art of it is that they really don't appear to be oversize 
and fit right in to the overall impression that this is a "miniature" as 
opposed to a painted model.

sp