08-19-2009, 05:15 PM
So you do not subscribe to the concept that modeling is primarily for the pleasure of the individual doing it?
I regard "prototypical" modeling as museum quality work, myself. I admire it; I enjoy it, but I do not aspire to it, and I would be deeply offended if someone who did applied those standards to work I did which was not intended for that purpose.
And yet, amazingly, I find that the most strict prototypical modelers allow children to run Santa Claus trains at Christmas, the most massive contradiction of their own philosophy that is possible.
I regard "prototypical" modeling as museum quality work, myself. I admire it; I enjoy it, but I do not aspire to it, and I would be deeply offended if someone who did applied those standards to work I did which was not intended for that purpose.
And yet, amazingly, I find that the most strict prototypical modelers allow children to run Santa Claus trains at Christmas, the most massive contradiction of their own philosophy that is possible.