In the middle of building Revell-Monogram’s JU-52…and of course, as is with a lot of new kits, a great deal of attention is spent building an interior that no one will ever see! Why?
Possibly we do it so that when a little 1/48 scale guy climbs aboard he’ll have a place to sit? I’ll put all the parts in 'cause you have to to support the exterior – but I won’t paint them.
Maybe we should have transparent exteriors? Save a lot of painting time, No?
Otherwise the JU-52 makes a nice model.
Bud[:D]
i am doing it to experience something new. i am doing the b-17g from revell in 1/48. this will have a nearly complete interior. it was something new that i wanted to try.
joe
Some interior detail that can’t be seen could be left out or unpainted. I assume you are not refering to cockpit detail, which is visible on the finished model. The JU-52 kit is designed so that the upper part of the aft fuselage can be removeable if the modeler chooses to do so. If you chose that option, you would want to paint & detail the interior.
Regards, Rick
Rick…I just now noted that the “roof” can be removable. Since I usually hang this type of model (Accurate Miniatures are in glass cases) I’ll probably not bother with the interiors. Cockpit is detailed already.
Bud
Why do we do interiors? good question.Mostly to improve our skills in building and painting also its fun to do.We don’t care sometimes if a person can see it or not,it is just knowing that we did it is good enought.Sometimes you will run across a kit that has a full interior and with removible parts to see the interior.So if you build interiors,your skills will improve to the piont that if you do run across a kit with interiors to show,your confidence in building it will shine throught.Digger
I’ve often wondered the same thing myself. Spent many an hour painting and detailing a box stock interior, only to discover that 90% of what I’ve just finished in no longer visible once when the fuselage is assembled. Done the same thing when scratch building an interior. Guess if I’m the only one who knows it’s there, I’m happy.
most of my shelf sitters are gonna be sitting there with the canopy open, so i want the cockpit to be detailed. but, if i hang it from the cieling, i dont even bother to put the cockpit pieces in place. heck, i did a 109 a couple of months ago that i knew was gonna be a closed canopy deal, i just painted the whole interior of the pit flat black, and concentrated on the exterior weathering, and most who view the kit are so into checking out the weathered exterior, that they don’t even notice the cockpit is not detailed.LOL later.
here is a pic of it.
I too thought the same about interiors until I recently did an SBD-5 from AM… fantastically detailed interior. I swear I think about half the pieces in that kit went into the cockpit… (ok maybe not THAT much) I decided about halfway through, that even though with the canopy open most of it was unseen, that I was going all out and putting all the pieces in. I knew what went into that build and it made me feel good! Since then with a few exceptions my best even if I hang it.
(exceptions being kits with decals for the instrument panel instead of molded instruments etc… not worth all the work IMHO, those are the ones I hang)
Wow Digger, I was thinking the same thing. I thought, “great minds think alike”, then I noticed your location, “great minds must live in the same area as well.” I’ve never been to Russellville, but I’m just down the road a piece in Siloam Springs. Maybe we’ll run into each other sometime so we can put a face to the names.
Don [alien]
Yeah i know where you guys are comin from,mostly i model with canopies open so i like to give the interior a good bit of detail,there are a couple of kits i have with closed canopies so i did’nt add as much detail such as PE seat belts…
Heres another 109 with sparse c/pit detail…
I’m still trying to answer that question, even though I am guilty of superdetailing interitors and then closing them up for only the spiders to see. Why do I do it? Because I can.[:D]
Have I got the solution for you guys! I too am guilty of killing myself detailing interiors that will never be seen again. Ive been doing this for years. I always told myself that It was more satisfying for me to know that it was in there. However, Im the kind of guy who likes to build for an audience. As a result, and with some help from technology, I take digital pics of my cockpits now. It seems to work realy well for me. One of the guys comes in and looks at one of my works of art and I also show him pics of the inside. Maybe Im just weird, but it works for me.
Guilty!! Completely detailed the crap out of the interior of an AMT KC-135 (anybody else notice the detailing in the crapper?) then closed it up. I spent about 15 hours on it. Didn’t even leave the cargo door open.[:(]
Who knows why we do it?
I’ve fully detailed the interior of a 1/72 Italeri DC-3…all the seats, curtains, overhead luggage racks, galley, head, full cockpit…and you can only see a little of the cockpit and the tops of the seats thru the windows…
I felt pretty good about the work I did - but I’m really the only one who saw it. Pretty silly, really.
I’d say we do it cuz most of us are perfectionists who just feel they need to “get it right”.
Why? The great question.
Like the psychiatrist who asks his patient why he keeps hitting himself on the head with a hammer and the patient replies because it feesl so good when I stop.
In this case, we detail the interior because it feels so good to know it’s been done.
Further, if you compete, if anything can be seen, it will need at least to be well painted. If there’s any chance of something being seen, it should be reasonably well detailed.
I can be accused of doing this. If I don’t do the best I can, I feel that I’ve shortchanged myself. Even though the fuselage is now closed, I still have the pics.
To Paraclete 1 aka Don,if you get a chance e-mail anytime.Digger
LOL Pixilater, I have the same pics and the same philosophy.
with interiors as fantastic as pix and armydogdoc’s, the pictures alone of the interior are worth it !
I Think since most of us want to do as accurate model as possible, the interior question is an academic one. Most of us are perfectionists and attentive to detail, hence the quirk for the interiors (even if some of us take it to the extremes). But there’s a tie for every collar, so knock yourself out guys