Re: Lindberg HMS Hood = Ironic Find



TankBuilder2@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi there.

I was given a Lindberg 1/400 scale kit of the HMS Hood. I have yet to
find a part in this kit that looks like any thing like any thing on
the real HMS Hood did.

The turrets are very odd-looking indeed on that one.
Dies it have the strange steering system intact?
Interesting concept - at some point the model itself becomes of significant historical interest, despite its lack of accuracy in regards to its subject, like the old tin-plated wind-up battleship toys that only vaguely resembled the real things.
I have a Monogram 1/32nd scale model Apollo CSM.
There are serious accuracy problems with the kit in regards to what the instruction *** tells you to paint it like, and the gold plating on the CM, but I painted it exactly as the instructions said.
Why?
Because although it's not a very accurate model of a Apollo CSM, it's a very accurate replica of what a young modeler would have built from the Monogram model of a Apollo CSM forty years ago going by the instruction ***.
The model itself is a historical artifact with its own history - independent of the space program or the real Apollo spacecraft; like the relationship between the 1/72 scale ID models of WW II aircraft and the real things.
This would be a fascinating thing to discuss here.
Do the old models themselves, accurate or not, have inherent worth due to their age and the part in the history of model building that they are part of?
Do you want to fix the errors on them, or should they be built exactly as designed for the sake of historical accuracy in regards to the kits themselves?

Pat
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