12-09-2010, 09:35 AM
Bruce, Svein, Gus, thanks for the comments and for the encouragement along the way! 
Kurt, I'm satisfied with the way it turned out and now will concentrate on getting it tied in to the layout and track across and ballasted.
I learned alot from this build - ways to speed up the repititious construction, and painting techniques - but what I learned most is that what you think you see is not always what is really there. Which brings up an interesting topic that we've discussed before: When building a model from the prototype, should emphasis be placed on building an exact replica, or should we make minor modifications towards what we and others "expect" the model to look like?
Kurt, I'm satisfied with the way it turned out and now will concentrate on getting it tied in to the layout and track across and ballasted.
I learned alot from this build - ways to speed up the repititious construction, and painting techniques - but what I learned most is that what you think you see is not always what is really there. Which brings up an interesting topic that we've discussed before: When building a model from the prototype, should emphasis be placed on building an exact replica, or should we make minor modifications towards what we and others "expect" the model to look like?
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