04-16-2013, 07:42 AM
Bernhard, the photo of the bottom of your gondola says it all. There is no doubt that real wood is the material of choice to model that wooden planks. There are many more examples (e.g. trestles) where real wood is used with fantastic results and outperforms styrene, brass etc. by far. No need to think about alternatives.
Just one exception. The fresh unweathered and unstained wooden blocks used to secure load cut from real wood do not look as perfect as real wood in other cases. I have no solution to offer and it becomes a topic on otherwise perfect models only (models like yours!).
Just one exception. The fresh unweathered and unstained wooden blocks used to secure load cut from real wood do not look as perfect as real wood in other cases. I have no solution to offer and it becomes a topic on otherwise perfect models only (models like yours!).
Reinhard