Re: Lindberg HMS Hood = Ironic Find

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:39:22 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:
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?

Some of them would certainly have historic value, but I doubt you'll find
any consensus as to which kits qualify and for what reason. Perhaps it is
more a matter for special interest groups within the hobby. To an Airfix
fan (to pick a not unlikely example), a particular kit might have
significance, while at the same time being just so much old junk to
another modeler.
Personally, I think the chances are better that some kit may have
sentimental value to a given modeller, which is of course the same thing
on a smaller scale.


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?

If I feel a kit qualifies as having either historic or sentimetal value, I
would certainly try to build it straight out of the box (I've done just
that with one kit, and have several in the stash that will get this
treatment).
If I were to take this one step further, I would try to get two copies of
the kit in question, and display them together, one unbuilt, the other
built straight out of the box to the best of my abilities, with the box
as a backdrop. I'd need a heck of a lot more time, a much bigger house,
and preferably an audience to make that worth while though (I'm not rich
enough to be excentric enough to do this).

Rob

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