THINGS I DON’T GET AND THE PROBLEMS OF DISPLAY
Iwas at the pub the other day catching up with a few friends and we were seated beside some old guys (strangely about our own age…weird ) and I overheard their conversation. They were banging on about this and that with the standard stuff being blurted out like how the younger generation just don’t get it and how bloody hard it was for us, yada yuada. It is funny that you never hear these old guys saying, “gee the younger generation have it tough don’t they”. AND THEY SHOULD because it is. On the drive home it got me thinking about this little hobby of ours. There are some things that I simply don’t get. I’m sure all of you have some pet gripes. The first one is full tank interiors. Yes, I know that some of us are passionate about them but for me I can’t really see the sense of them at all. I get a partial engine bay (as you can display the engine hatch open) and I get them for open top vehicles but complete interiors? how on earth can you display those? (Without, a cut away or having them in a segmented pedestal arrangement) and yea I’ve done them but in the final display, they just don’t do it for me. I’m the sort of guy who likes to build, put them on display and basically forget about them, even when the model is complete I can’t for the life of me correct the little mistakes I’ve made along the way. Another one is super big models and yes, I’ve bought a few but as I’m a super slow builder, they would take me years to complete and again where would you display them? Take for example the Border Models 1:32 Lancaster. It is undoubtedly a great model, state of the art oil canning and fantastic detail but man it’s so big! I’ve thought about it, but I have nowhere to display it effectively. I basically build models that I can display on a standard book self, so anything bigger just doesn’t make the cut these days. Another thing I don’t get is hands, yep those little things that we all have that grip stuff, In 1:48 scale, for example, most hands on figures in this scale look like monkey paws. They are devoid of detail, There is only one set that, in my opinion, has got that aspect of human anatomy correct and that is Tamiya’s WWII US Navy Pilot set (item 61107). The hands are perfect and yes, I’ve bought so may sets of those over the years basically for the hands. And lastly tyres. You know, those round rubber things on wheeled vehicles. Most plastic manufacturers provide you with a doughnut. They are generally lacking civilian tread detail although there are notable exceptions to this in 1:35 scale (for example with the segmented arrangement on some of the Dragon kits) however in 1:48? Nah. All we want to give you is a doughnut!
Anyway, I’m late for my bus…
Luke Pitt
THINGS I DON’T GET AND THE PROBLEMS OF DISPLAY
Iwas at the pub the other day catching up with a few friends and we were seated beside some old guys (strangely about our own age…weird ) and I overheard their conversation. They were banging on about this and that with the standard stuff being blurted out like how the younger generation just don’t get it and how bloody hard it was for us, yada yuada. It is funny that you never hear these old guys saying, “gee the younger generation have it tough don’t they”. AND THEY SHOULD because it is. On the drive home it got me thinking about this little hobby of ours. There are some things that I simply don’t get. I’m sure all of you have some pet gripes. The first one is full tank interiors. Yes, I know that some of us are passionate about them but for me I can’t really see the sense of them at all. I get a partial engine bay (as you can display the engine hatch open) and I get them for open top vehicles but complete interiors? how on earth can you display those? (Without, a cut away or having them in a segmented pedestal arrangement) and yea I’ve done them but in the final display, they just don’t do it for me. I’m the sort of guy who likes to build, put them on display and basically forget about them, even when the model is complete I can’t for the life of me correct the little mistakes I’ve made along the way. Another one is super big models and yes, I’ve bought a few but as I’m a super slow builder, they would take me years to complete and again where would you display them? Take for example the Border Models 1:32 Lancaster. It is undoubtedly a great model, state of the art oil canning and fantastic detail but man it’s so big! I’ve thought about it, but I have nowhere to display it effectively. I basically build models that I can display on a standard book self, so anything bigger just doesn’t make the cut these days. Another thing I don’t get is hands, yep those little things that we all have that grip stuff, In 1:48 scale, for example, most hands on figures in this scale look like monkey paws. They are devoid of detail, There is only one set that, in my opinion, has got that aspect of human anatomy correct and that is Tamiya’s WWII US Navy Pilot set (item 61107). The hands are perfect and yes, I’ve bought so may sets of those over the years basically for the hands. And lastly tyres. You know, those round rubber things on wheeled vehicles. Most plastic manufacturers provide you with a doughnut. They are generally lacking civilian tread detail although there are notable exceptions to this in 1:35 scale (for example with the segmented arrangement on some of the Dragon kits) however in 1:48? Nah. All we want to give you is a doughnut!