Dave, Great photos. Fantastic workmanship! Moving on I have a question for the group. I have spent countless hours over the years distressing wood siding and...
It looks like the whole message list is back, or else I have just been zapped into a paralel universe. I replied to message #34 and then checked to see if it...
... Nuf said. Actually, the people on my layout aren't really alive, my trains are not propelled by steam, and almost all my buildings are empty inside....
Actually, Doug, I think your question desires a response that isn't so flippant. Forgive me, OK? The question of the value of nail holes has been covered...
Doug, I meant to say: I think your question deserves a responce.....not desires. Sorry again. Darryl Huffman Anchorage, Alaska Like model trains? Check out my...
Yes. With 20-20 vision, stand 30-40 feet or less back from a building and tell me how many nail holes,stress marks, seams are visible. Bill Gaver ... From:...
Just my 2 cents, but my models are the sum total of it's parts. By this I mean that it is the little things that I do in the way of distressing (graining, nail...
Doug - With regard to your question about the validity of adding nail holes to models, I think you partially answered your own question in the comment about...
I like nail holes -> I even put them in my styrene clapboard structures. However, I do also state right on the front page of my site that I call my modeling...
Dave I agree with you whole heartedly. This is still a hobby that we do for our own pleasure. It is amazing though how you can spend hours detailing a $15.00...
Yes, the nail holes are a little big and many other details that we add to structures are not exactly in scale, but it is an illusion that we are trying to...
I am just browsing through EBAY. I usually do searches on 'FSM' to see what kind of kits are out there. I HATE it when sellers put FSM in the title of a kit...
It is false advertising, but in the same sense, it is a compliment to Fine Scale Miniatures. -Chris ... From: James Powell [mailto:jpowell@...] Sent:...
Doug Coffey wrote: (snip) ... (snip) ... There are two factors we cannot avoid in modeling; oversized materials and human expectations. Even with our laser,...
In a message dated 11/8/01 6:23:54 AM, finescaleminiatures@yahoogroups.com ... Hi Doug! I have been wondering about this myself over the years. After much ...
Cazarry@... wrote: (snip) ... Perhaps a note in the documentation, complete with a close-up photo of how a real building looks, might help with the contest...
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Interestingly, Jack Burgess, MMR, has never added nail holes or distressing to any of his models on his well known Yosemite Valley RR as far as I know. As a...
Ken I like you have also been a contest judge at regional and national. I have never taken points off on a tructure for not having nail holes or destressing...
I asked the nail hole question and got pretty much the response I had expected. The general concensus appears to be - No they are not really protypical but...
Doug, I hadn't chimed in yet on the nails subject yet, so let me comment on both that and the shingles....I try to capture a reasonably prototypical look, that...
Probably because it is associated with John Allen. Just a month or so ago someone bid up a railcar repair shed to $364 and you could have/can buy one from...
My first guess about tipped up shingles would be that it's a texture thing. I suppose it adds body--here I go-- to the unprototypical flatness or thickness of...
If you are not familiar, look closely at any Sierea West or Builders in Scale kits that looks interesting to you, , as I have built many of them, and find them...
Hi Ken, The kit finnaly went for $304!!! It is quite interesting since George could not sell the kit when it initially came out. He wound up selling some of...
There seems to be a fine line between modeling and caricature modeling. I tend to lean toward adding the nailholes, lifting the shingles, and distressing the...
Hey Bill, Make it another victorian! The waxworks is one of my favorites on the whole railroad. How about something residential? I have a line drawing of a...
