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steel_tiger1

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  1. 30 minutes ago, USMCVet said:

    Suggestions, advice, comments, observations, helpful data - all good. Taunting, ridiculing, "I'm an expert and you're not" are not cool.  "Rivet counting" is considered a pejorative - because it describes the impossible pursuit of perfection, often at the expense of other modelers. IPMS judging suffers from both Rivet Counters - and folks with no idea at all of what you're attempting with your model.

    I have neither the time, the desire nor the crayons to explain to you where the hobby would be without the "rivet counters" you hate.

    Good day to you.

  2. 4 hours ago, Cubs2jets said:

     

    Thank you for stating what was going through my mind.

     

    C2j

    This is a counter intuitive thing to do. How else would anyone else learn the information? The reason for posting work and doing these build logs publicly is for the open exchange of ideas and information. I learned about US Jerry cans things I had no idea about and will be helpful going forward for me. If it had been done via pm how would I have learned? Just like Olivers amazing builds, full of useful information on scratch building and detailing, if it wasn't done on a public forum how would we all learn tips and techniques that we can use in our own modeling ? I don't think Oliver does these builds just so everyone can tell him how wonderful they are with every post, I certainly wouldn't. Discussion is an important tool for learning an improving your own builds. You may not like the way people impart the information, you may think they are being rude or whatever, remember it is almost always impossible to tell how someones demeanor is in a text based post. Also English is not everyone's first language either, and that can make a bigger difference on how a post sounds to you when you read it.  You who think you are the forum police have derailed this topic this will be my last post on this. Back on topic.

  3. 13 hours ago, USMCVet said:

    Well, that’s a first - somebody who is proudly upfront to be a rivet counter!
     

    I am of the side that does his level best to be as accurate as I can be - but I never waste my time or demean myself by criticizing other modeler’s work. Giving somebody suggestions, aiding them with details - all great. But publicly trumpeting the “errors” in some guy’s build is cruddy and given the recent history, it’s a pattern. As far as gas cans go, when I was in Vietnam in the Marines, we had lots of gear that dated back to WWII, including the howitzer ammo we fired and the C-Rations we ate. It is likely we had some of the earlier gas cans lying around too

     

    As I said earlier, I come from a time when modeling was gentlemanly. All anyone has to do, if they see something worth mentioning, is to privately message the guy building and send their suggestion to him and him alone. Unless you and others believe that this forum is to support one guy’s ego over another.

    I think it's funny that someone that has knowledge about a particular subject or item is considered a"rivet counter". And somehow you think that calling someone a rivet counter is an insult to them. Most of us on here aren't snowflakes and words don't hurt us. I certainly don't care and I doubt Heavyarty does either. In fact quite the opposite, I wear it with pride.

     

  4. There are 2 ways to look at this.... It's either right/correct or it's not, period. Information was shared with no malice whatsoever. If he chooses to change it or not is his decision, he's a grown man and can do what he wants. What I hate is people who complain about other people. You don't like what you see? Feel free to scroll right on past without commenting. It's easy. Lets not turn these forums into the same trolling/arguing wastes of time that Facebook is.

  5. I just got both of his books & the decals. They are awesome. Very much the Daco or Reid treatment to heli's. If I had one complaint it would be that there is no coverage of the MH-53 in the second book on CH-53E's. Hopefully that means another book is coming. I have all the Academy big helis and some in multiples so very welcome volumes indeed.

  6. 8 hours ago, Hubbie Marsten said:

    Please, guys

    Let's not open a new thread with regard to how happy customers we are about ResKit because we might as well have a lot of new threads on the same subject, and that's just a broadband waste. There already exists a thread regarding how happy customers ResKit make us, so please, in future, refrain from opening a new thread on the same subject everytime there is a customer who's happy about ResKit stuff.  

     

    Wow. What a grouch. Not everyone is going to search for a happiness thread. There are other sites for that.

     

     

    P.S.- I ordered almost $200 worth of stuff because of this thread. So get over it.

  7. 20 hours ago, Ben Brown said:

    In addition to adding fuselage length, you’ll have to reshape the #2 engine intake. It will probably be a lot easier to go from a -100 style to the -200 style than the other way. If you can find the clear cockpit part from a Minicraft or Daco 737, it will go a long way to making the nose area of both the Revell and Airfix kits look better.

     

    Ben

    I have a dozen or so Daco 737s so that shouldn't be an issue.

     

    Thanks

    Tom

  8. Everything I have read about the Minicraft kit it isn't worth dragging home. And the Airfix kit has issues with the cockpit forward. And with either one I would still have to buy another kit and sacrifice one Revell kit. And for what I paid for the Revell kits its still cheaper to cut two up to make one than buy either a Airfix or Minicraft kit too.

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