Modelling World War 1

[Kiteman]

Now that bears the question...is computer modelling really modelling???

[Haddock]

Now that bears the question...is computer modelling really modelling???

I think the answer is in the description, it's computer modelling, done using a computer, plastic modelling is done using plastic. There are other sorts of modelling but we won't go into that.

[zak]

I keep wondering about 3d printing, will it remove the necessity for modelling?
I hope now.

[Wizzel]

I keep wondering about 3d printing, will it remove the necessity for modelling?
I hope now.

It very much depends on the attitude of the user I guess.  As long as there are old fashioned buggers like us about who insist on doing things 'properly' (as we like to call it), all we can do is try our best to get the younger generation interested and pass our skills on.  Cue Kiteman...

[Haddock]

I keep wondering about 3d printing, will it remove the necessity for modelling?
I hope now.

now.....not?.....mammoth=big

[zak]

Should have been not.

[Wizzel]

Should have been not.

or indeed, "should not have been now."

[zak]

Well I have finished it, undercoated, painted and set on a scenic base.
No hanging around for me.
You lot need to model faster.














Only kidding - ha, ha.

[Wizzel]

I wish you hadn't left such a big pause before saying "Only kidding", I was posing in my leather boxers immediately.  Didn't help that I was going home on the bus when I read you post either.  Big question now is, who do I ring with my one phone call?

[zak]

Sorry Dave, hope you managed to call someone?
Well here is a bit more added.
Radiator, exhaust and so on.

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[Wizzel]

Blimey, as you said at the meeting, eyes have been opened to the amount of kit we actually had back then.  It must take you much longer to research these things than to actually build them though?  Or is there plenty of stuff readily available and we just don't think to look for it?

[zak]

There are some good books and some quite nice websites.
Like this one http://www.wdlr.org.uk/wdlr/blog/

[zak]

Undercoat.

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[Haddock]

As if by magic!!

[zak]

I am building a second one with the engine cover open now, I will not post this until its completed as the build is much the same.
I now need to build some rolling stock to complement them.
Parkside Dundas do a nice range of bogie wagons as does WD Models.