08-01-2010, 02:24 PM
Kevin, thank you for the great compliment. 
On the "not completely satisfied",I think we all are our own harshest critics. When you viewed bent 6, it was pretty much the first time you saw it, so the overall feel and good points stand out. For me, I have been dealing with that thing for 5+ hours and have been struggling with making it look like the prototype. So I am intimately familiar with the compromises and the "good-enoughs" that were aloowed into the project, just as S-two-fiddy metnioned.
As an example, the lower concrete rectangle, as I weathered it, there was a spot under the second pipe from the left that I couldn't get right. And then I did something drastic and really messed it up. Then I had to camoflage it and finally gave up and said "three-foot-rule"!!!!
Although I am pleased with the overall look, there are a few things that just don't match the real bent 6. But with the bridge taken as a whole and installed on the layout, those tiny imperfections will never be noticed, even by me.
On the "not completely satisfied",I think we all are our own harshest critics. When you viewed bent 6, it was pretty much the first time you saw it, so the overall feel and good points stand out. For me, I have been dealing with that thing for 5+ hours and have been struggling with making it look like the prototype. So I am intimately familiar with the compromises and the "good-enoughs" that were aloowed into the project, just as S-two-fiddy metnioned.
As an example, the lower concrete rectangle, as I weathered it, there was a spot under the second pipe from the left that I couldn't get right. And then I did something drastic and really messed it up. Then I had to camoflage it and finally gave up and said "three-foot-rule"!!!!
Although I am pleased with the overall look, there are a few things that just don't match the real bent 6. But with the bridge taken as a whole and installed on the layout, those tiny imperfections will never be noticed, even by me.
Three Foot Rule In Effect At All Times