05-17-2013, 06:50 AM
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:If we strike the right balance of stuff, the mind will fill in the gaps while it is distracted with the more spectacular aspects of a model or scene.
.. and THAT is exactly how I learned to model..
An example In NASCAR:
About 30 years ago, Junior Johnson brought a car out to Darlington Raceway. It had a different design to the front bumper. It was well within the lines of being legal. Richard Petty asked him what he was doing? Why the metal??
Junior simply replied: "You see how NASCAR and everyone else is concentrating on it? I don't want them looking at anything else!"
The same can be said for modeling. My layout has gimmicks and fun stuff and noone seems to notice that it only has a few engines (three) and about 10 structures on it. The scenery and the structures take up most of the 13 X 9 layout.
Now granted, the footprints of each of these is 1 ft square or larger so it does look crowded. But there is not much detail at all...
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