Re: Do RC modelers care much about acurracy of paint jobs?
- From: Vance Howard <itsme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:23:53 GMT
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:12:27 -0700, Larry wrote:
My main hobby is static scale model building, and it seems most of
the people I know fro that hobby really agonize over colors and
markings for their models. I realize that for RC modelers the fun is
in the flyin', not in the painting, but I wondered how much the
average RC Warbird owner cares about accuracy ?
I've seen some stuff that manufactures do that just looks so goofy.
Obviously they didn't even look at a picture of the real thing.
Anyways, I bought a ParkZone Spitfire because it does look pretty
good, but does have many inacurate things that could have easily been
done correctly for no extra cost in the design stages. I started a
web page to point out these inacuracies and to work on corrections;
http://members.cox.net/grapent1/rcair/spit_markings.htm
Larry
The reason model manufacturers no longer provide accurate reproductions of
actual aircraft is because owners of said aircraft and even the
manufacturer of the full scale plane are demanding royalties be paid by
the model manufacturer. So the model manufacturer puts out a model that
resembles the P-51, but has markings that do not exist on any full scale
aircraft and even might have a slightly different shape.
This though, doesn't prevent the end user (you and me) from making a scale
plane by adding the correct markings, color schemes, etc, to make it an
accurate representation.
.
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