[WWI] Model craftsmanship WAS: Nice Junkers

[Rusty Scott]

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Rusty
Lancaster NH 03584


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diego Fernetti" <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:58 AM
Subject: [WWI] Model craftsmanship WAS: Nice Junkers


>> My bigger problem is I would have to try to fly
>> them. LOL........!!!!!
>
> Hey, after seeing all the effort the scale RC modelers put in their 
> models,
> I can't believe that you risk it all tossing it into thin air, trusting 
> all
> into a misterious electronic box...
> BTW a couple of days ago my friend Martín Afflitto shared with us a link 
> to
> a superdetailed Felixstowe build in 1/72.
> While I admit that it was an impressive feat of modeling and I can't do 
> half
> of what this chap from Switzerland did, I felt somehow dissapointed at the
> result.
> The modeler who made the Felixstowe has mastered soldering techniques that
> made him capable of replacing many original plastic pieces for others made
> of brass sheet and wire. However, many of those weren't actually superior 
> to
> the original plastic kit pieces, looking somewhat heavy. Besides the 
> choice
> of replacing the top decking with a "ribbed" roof, which also looked a bit
> thick and which probably wasn't made like that (the fairing battens 
> joining
> around the cockpit padding is something unlikely), plus the conjuction of 
> a
> highly polished wood hull and very battered and stained fabric surfaces in
> the same airframe, and other choices this modeler has done for completing
> the model.
> One has to admire his commitment to the hobby for investing in an 
> expensive
> binocular microscope to help him solder small brass pieces, but, one can't
> help thinking if it was really necessary soldering PE bits for something
> that doesn't actually need much more than a smear of varnish to bond and a
> cheap magnifyer to place accurately.
> After all, the tools of modelers like Harry Woodman and George Lee weren't
> too complicated, and their results are far more outstanding than this
> Felixstowe, and look much more like the real thing.
> Sorry for the rant, but sometimes i feel like the modeling comunnity has
> lost their bearings...
> D.
>