How to become the world's best modeller
AP Shinton
DMeriman
David D. Merriman, Jr.
r/c submarines, 'the only way to fly!'
"Barns! Cargrave!... Come back here!!!"
TomGAJ
It's never "too" late Dave. Eventually you are going to meet someone even you
will have to concede is better than yourself. You probably already have -
you're just not ready to face it yet.
CamaroCrazy3
the way you want to, up to your own standards. if you satisfy yourself you are
the worlds best modeler.
Sean Neilan
Peace leads to strength. Strength leads to war. War leads to weakness.
Weakness leads to peace. -anonymous
Modeler of some of the worlds small Air Forces
Rob Gronovius
Watch his eyes light up when he blows on the prop to make it spin and flies it
around the house. To him, I am the greatest.
P.S. he'll probably hunt down the kit on ebay in 30+ yrs and pay over $50 for
it.
Rob Gronovius
Major, U.S. Army
DMeriman
Indeed.
His name is Ben Gunther.
DMeriman
>want,
>the way you want to, up to your own standards. if you satisfy yourself you
>are
>the worlds best modeler.
>
What a sorry piece of rational.
Do you make cooing sounds when someone pats you on the head?
Al Superczynski
wrote:
>...build what you want, the way you want...
That sounds vaguely familiar........... ;-p
Al Superczynski, MFE
IPMS/USA #3795, continuous since 1968
Check out my want and disposal lists at "Al's Place":
http://www.up-link.net/~modeleral
"Build what YOU like, the way YOU want to,
and the critics will flame you every time."
TomGAJ
I've done that exact thing to myself several times now to get my hands on kits
my Dad did for me or helped me with 49+ years ago.
CamaroCrazy3
pale...@home.com
him since birth.
Dana
kmfd...@my-deja.com
camaro...@aol.com (CamaroCrazy3) wrote:
> in order to be the worlds best modeler you simply have to build what
you want,
> the way you want to, up to your own standards. if you satisfy
yourself you are
> the worlds best modeler.
>
I'd have to agree.. if you are completely happy with your work.. you're
not setting your standards high enough.
Sent via Deja.com
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kmfd...@my-deja.com
to be the best, you would have to do everything.
Classic cars, drag rails, dirt cars, Sportscars, new trucks, old
trucks, junkers, jalopies, Kitty Hawk Aircraft, WWI/II Aircraft, wood
boats, speed boats, jet boats, modern aircraft, submarines, Space
ships, robots, horror figures, dioramas, RC Cars/Boats/Planes, Movie
Props.
need i go on?
you be the best at ALL of those.. and you're the best in the world..
just cuz you can wire a tiny little motor like a motherf@#$r doesn't
make you the best..
besides.. who would want to be the best anyway? you couldn't do
anything ELSE with your life.. what else can you do dave? can you sing?
play basketball? get laid? program a computer? write? higher math? read?
what else can you do?
diversity.. is the spice of life.
Robin Nilsson
"to late" what? To late to start making an effort ???
;-)
/ Robin
Drewe Manton
Robin....@era.ericsson.se wrote on 18/1/01 7:42 am:
Too late to add the extra "O" onto too is what I think he means. . .
--
Regards
Drewe
"Politicians and nappies should both be changed at regular intervals, and
for exactly the same reason"
Burkhard Domke
>to late.
Yeah, no hope. Good writing ability and social skills are essential.
You're missing both.
Burkhard
RLHDLW
Mike Settle
>
> On 17 Jan 2001 21:18:51 GMT, camaro...@aol.com (CamaroCrazy3)
> wrote:
>
> >...build what you want, the way you want...
>
> That sounds vaguely familiar........... ;-p
>
Well, Al, take a bow, wear the crown, you're a positive influence on us
all. :-ž
--
Mike Settle
Rama Lama Watt Da Ell
Temple of Mangled Plastic
Temple Procrastinator of Model Completion
I am not agent #1908 of the non-existent Lumber Cartel (tinlc)tm
Robin Nilsson
What a sorry piece of argumentation
/ Robin
Robin Nilsson
>
>
> besides.. who would want to be the best anyway? you couldn't do
> anything ELSE with your life.. what else can you do dave? can you sing?
> play basketball? get laid? program a computer? write? higher math? read?
Manage a sensible discussion with someone who disagrees with ones own
opinions?
Al Superczynski
<set...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Well, Al, take a bow, wear the crown, you're a positive influence on us
>all.
Even when I respond to political rants? ;-)
AAMRESIN
AP,
Gee, you sure did start a thread! "World's Best Modeller"? That's a pretty
tough act not only to make, yet alone follow.
Having been a model car nut for more than 48 years, I've seen my share of kits,
and a further heavy helping of model builders and their work. Your link here
is of course, to a commerical site offering CD-Rom's of pics of military
vehicles, restored, which is perhaps the only way most of us would ever get to
reference machines that were purpose-built, then scrapped wholesale
unceremoniously at war's end, or converted to numerous civilian uses soon
thereafter. A such, your reference material should be very welcome to armor
and soft-skin builders all over.
Everyone of us, even Dave Merriman (whom I've never met) builds as we like, to
standards which we set for ourselves, and most of us "move the goalposts" at
least a little bit in just about every project we attempt.
However, none of us has yet reached truly the pinnacle of "The World's Best
Modeler", simply because none of us has been objectively compared (by our work)
one-against-the-other in a single venue.
Even IPMS, carrying "International" in its very name, does not host a truly
international gathering, where truly every top-flight modeler will show, due to
not only the distances involved, but also the often-limiting finances most of
us face. There simply is no pattern of "National IPMS Teams" as exists in
sports with the Olympics for example (would that there was though!). Even if
such did exist, even the competitive judging would be at best, subjective, as
no matter what, model contest judges cannot be expert (no matter what they
might say!) on every model they judge (not even a P-51 nut can possibly cover
the full range of variants in detail, fittings and equipment of even this
relatively standardized aircraft--just keep reading the sheer number of posts
here about the Mustang over the years!).
Scale modeling is at best the creating of the illusion of reality, of accuracy,
of a replica of something much larger in real life.
Very few modelers ever get to a level of replicating such things as scale
material thicknesses, Even Gerald Wingrove, MBE, of your own country, while
arguably building the finest scratchbuilt automotive miniatures ever seen,
cannot do this, as in even the relatively large scale in which he works, the
sheet metal of a real car body shrinks to little more than a heavy metal foil
in scale, hardly the stuff with which to make fenders,doors, etc.
As modelers working in styrene (most of us readers here on RMS are plastic
modelers), we face limitations similar to Wingrove, complicated not only by the
materials we use, but also the even smaller scales in which we work. So, in a
very real way, we all are forced to create that illusion of reality (we call it
realsim?) as we craft the models we build.
Does this all really matter? No, I suppose it actually does not. Modeling is
an art form, IMHO. Artists of all stripes and persuasions take license with
everything they do. The classic Greek statues revered in such places as the
British Museum exhibit anatomic proportions and poses that in no way reflect
actual bodies, but rather an "ideal" human body (Art Appreciation 101 in
college). Photographers such as Ansell Adams and others used their camera's to
create artistic pictures that while certainly beautiful to the beholder, really
do not reflect the realities of the scene, by playing tricks with filters,
lenses, and even developing techniques.
Playwrights and movie screenwriters (sorry, Tom Cleaver!) take varying degrees
of license with truth in order to make a story line and plot that will hold the
audience's interest to the last credit. Even the Parthenon in Athens was
designed and cut in stone with nary a truly straight line, to give the illusion
(to this very day) that every line of the building, its columns and lintels is
absolutely straight, while in fact they are all very lightly curved.
All of this illusion is done to create the impression of perfection, of
reality, of realism.
What does this mean to us? Simply that we modelers set out to create some
semblance of realism, while using artificial materials, and creative yet
arbitrary techniques to give that illusion of real life objects in miniature.
Just as Ansell Adams and other artistic photographers worked to give an
illusion of a perfect look at the world through a camera lens, we do it with
raw materials not indigenious to the prototype, molded kits, photoetched parts,
paints that of necessity are far coarser than scale would dictate, decals that
are far thicker in scale than the actual painted insignia would have been, a
whole host of compromised things just so we can have our fling at creating the
illusion of realism.
Each of us has our own ego as well. However, we all ought to take note of some
sage advice from Benjamin Franklin (not an exact quote, but pretty darn close)
"There are some whose skins are so thin, they had best varnish their hides,
lest their brains leak out out of their pores".
Good advice in the last half of the 18th Century, and I think good advice
still, in the 21st.
Art Anderson
jp5...@my-deja.com
Al;
Especially when you respons to political rants!
Jonathan Primm
JP5...@aol.com
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Mike Settle
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:05:46 -0500, Mike Settle
> <set...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >Well, Al, take a bow, wear the crown, you're a positive influence on us
> >all.
>
> Even when I respond to political rants? ;-)
Well, you are on the "right" side, after all. And you do respond like a
gentleman. In my opinion that makes a difference.
MANDO VILLARREAL
Al Superczynski
<set...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>...you do respond like a
>gentleman. In my opinion that makes a difference.
Thank you, sir! :)
Al Superczynski, MFE
IPMS/USA #3795, continuous since 1968
Check out my want and disposal lists at "Al's Place":
http://apollo.up-link.net/~modeleral
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