and I am going to settle for a good fantasy of my own making.
I bought the Eduard Fw-190 in 1/48 scale. It’s gorgeous, and will take me a month of Sundays to complete it. I’m working on the cockpit, and the PE gives me the willies! How do you guys manage to do it? (It’s the first PE cockpit I’ve tried.) And what about 1/72nd scale???
Anyway, I’ve decided to leave the smaller scales to people with younger eyes than mine, and stick with 1/32nd from now on. (I’ll make space, somewhere, for them…) And I have decided that a little bit of PE is good, but much more is overkill for me. I can scratchbuild a lot of things if I have a good reference, and it’s easier for me than messing with all of the little PE bits and pieces, which I feel compelled to use, since I bought and paid for them. And scratchbuilding is more fun for me. Plus, if it looks good to me, it is good enough for me!
But I wish all of you well, however you conceive the hobby, because there is room for everybody. The main idea is to have fun. Happy New Year and Happy Modeling!
I build what seems fun. Sometimes the mood for OOB hits me, other times scratch build or AM (though I am leaning more and more to scratch build when I want to “go overboard”). And I agree with you- 1/72 is hard to see. I switched to 1/48, and when I get more room I’ll go to 1/32 maybe.
And I’m certainly no rivet counter. I like to be close to accurate in the big things, you know… if OD green upper surfaces are called for, I do OD green, but for so much more stuff, I just do what I like.
The way I see it- I got back into the hobby to have fun! SO I do what’s fun to me. [;)]
I have thought that p-e can be a waste of money and of my time of late, so I too have purchased less aftermarket p-e frets to spice up my models. If I use it at all I use the bigger pieces since the teeny tiny ones seem to get lost during the time I snip it off and go to use it!
I like a lot of the resin stuff though. Ultracast makes some nice resin stuff as does Jaguar and True Details. I also tend to use a lot of aftermarket decals from Meteor and from others like Aeromaster and SuperScale.