[WWI] 'show and tell'

[Paul Thompson]

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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

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    Yes. Some things look wrong unless 
scale thickness - gross measurements 
like tyre size and wing dimensions, but 
the details become more a matter of 
suggestion.  Woodgrain, for example 
(which has been said many times here by 
others, but I'm in pedantic mode so I'll 
repeat it). At the size of a 1/48th 
model you'd need to have your nose 
against it to see grain, but if you 
don't do something the model just looks 
like brown painted plastic. Your mind 
knows that your looking at something 
too small to transport a decent sized 
shrew, but you have to fool it into 
thinking it's looking at a large machine 
from a distance.

    So long as we don't start talking 
sculpture.......


Paul.