Copying Everybody..??

[Sumpter250]

While not above "stealing" modeling or scenery ideas I am fairly set in my ways...That is to say by today's modeling "standards" I am a dinosaur. :o
How's that?
I still use modeling and track laying methods I was taught years ago since they still work quite well today.. hock:

Yeah, but look at it this way, Larry, The great John Allen used a dinosaur to great advantage on his Gorre and Gaphetid RR!

Plagiarism, is the sincerest form of flattery. There's nothing wrong in copying. That said, however, we never really grow by just copying. We need to look at the idea, and then adapt it to our own skills, and desires, and produce a "copy" that includes our own perception of what it should look like, hence, the practice of kitbashing*. By the same....we copy, and then adapt techniques. This is how we learn, and this is how we become the one who is copied.






* kitbashing: v. to modify the look or function of a model kit, to justify an alternate use for it.
* Kit Bashing: v. to reduce a model kit to styrene dust by repeated high speed impact with a sledge hammer.
Simply put, do we feel "constructive", or do we feel "destructive"?