That makes you an artist.[:)]
Hack in execution, though I try to get camo and other things as accurate as I can.
Well, given the fact that I can’t count …
-dave
Actually, I’d love to be a rivet counter. I greatly admire their perseverance and dedication, and look to their works for inspiration.
Unfortunately, I’m just too damn lazy to be one. I have a very low “yup, that’s good enough” threshold!
I think this qualifies as a rivet-counter and proud of it. One of the most impresive builds that I have ever seen. [tup]
http://s102164210.onlinehome.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=74433&st=0
-dave
I tend to lean towards hacking much more than rivet counting. I’m ont out to reproduce a model to perfection, so long as it resembles its inspiration, I find it good enough.
I don’t like when there is big inaccuracy error in a kit but I can live with some incorrect bolt pattern or not thick enough armor plates. But I like to be accurate for the painting and weathering. I like the idea of telling a true story with a model. I dont like the idea of building a Tiger I late production model without zimmerit!
More of a hack most of the time if the part looks right but not great. But if some thing is really wrong with a kit I will become a rivet counter.
I think rivet-counter is a person that has to have a model that is 100% correct. I have seen articles in FSM where someone complains the bolt heads are too big so they shave all of them off and replace them. It seems like almost everything is replaced because of some very small error.
For me, I do not like to look down an intake and see wide open spaces, so I will close off the intake, or wait for AM intake trunks to come out. Does that make me a rivet-counter? I don’t think so. It only means I try to produce a model that at least looks like the real thing. If the shape of the radome is off by 1/64 of an inch or the panels are not 100% correct, I don’t care. Who will know anyhow? A gross error that is obvious, that is a different story. I will try to correct it or buy AM parts for it.
I was at a model show recently where two aircraft were displayed, one built almost OOTB and the other had all the resin/PE replacement parts to correct errors. The two aircraft setting side by side, I’ll bet 99% of the people cound not tell the difference. I had to look very close to find the improvements and I still could not see how the AM parts inproved the kit. The OOTB kit was just as impressive as the other. Here you have one model builder that spent say $150 and produced a very fine looking model, where the other spent $325 and looked just as good as the other.
I’d have to say I’m more of a hack with a dash of rivet-counter. Sometimes I just build to suit myself-occaisionally I’ll outift it as accurately as possible. I become more of a rivet-counter when I go to shows and competitions and pick up the resin and books and know which kit I wanna spend that amount of time on.
Score so far:
Hack: 17
Rivet Counter: 0
Hack/Rivet Counter: 8
Artist: 1
I put all the people who split the difference in Hack/Rivet Counter, that includes Berny13 & J-Hulk, and you too, Rob!
I think what this shows is the majority are quite happy with OOB, (and given the state of the art for most Hasegawa, Tamiya, Trumpeter etc. kits we should be!) yet strive for accuracy when painting, and I think that is pretty typical. I suspect the “real” rivet counters don’t hang around here much, being too busy counting rivets.
I still say I model so I can play with toy airplanes while making machine gun noises, and yet maintain some dignity as a “modeler of historical significance”.
Thank GOD! I thought I was the only one![(-D][(-D]
That’s exactly what I think.
Hack
I build for fun
If it comes out good its ok
[#ditto][#ditto][#ditto]!
Amen to that. I was flying my Spitfire around the other day. Making engine noises and machine gun sounds and so forth. Made me fell like a kid again.
What I DON’T do any more is have a bunch of friends come over on Saturday’s and head off into the woods with a box of old planes and firecrackers and spend the day blowin’ it all up. [;)]
Me either, but I got a couple that I would sure love to see go high order. BOOM!!
-dave
I’m a hack.
I spend too much time worrying if a kit is accurate or not but I don’t have the skills to correct it anyway!
Basically, I am a hack but I did try to accurize (to some degree) a few of my models like the Sherman Jumbo and the Panther D.
I try to be a rivet counter with armor, but a hack for everything else.
Since its hard to count rivets on a sailing ship, I must be a HACK.