09-17-2010, 06:00 AM
(09-08-2010, 11:49 PM)beaz Wrote: You know, I caught no end of grief and a good bit of hate mail at the RPF-SSMF when I first opined, as politely as I know how, that the CC fuselage was probably too spindly compared to the original models. Even posted that picture of it next to my pyro casting to show them what I meant. Some guys called me an "anal jerk" and a "rivet-counter" and made it all too clear where they thought I should shove my calipers.I'm sorry to hear that, Beaz. You are one of the few people who I have followed on the rpf since I first heard about it from a guy on ebay. This kind of thing happens more often than not. I'm guilty of bashing other people myself, but I usually leave that for when all other means to get my point across fails. I respect your opinions, because I see that you back up your say with proof - not nonsense! I try to help when I can, but sometimes we misunderstand someone elses' intentions when reading a post. When it's just outright "slagging" well.....I think we can all do without that. I've been called a rivet counter myself, but at least I make an attempt to get it right when building - I know I'm not always right, so I try to keep my mouth shut as an effort to keep me from getting hurt any more than neccessary.
Of course, most of those same guys subsequently started padding the midline of their CC fuselages with sheet styrene in order to beef them up a good bit.
I guess what I'm getting at is that there are many ways to criticize someone or something constructively, and then there's slagging. What I saw here the other night in the Falcon thread and have noticed in a few others, is a good bit of unnecessary, often uninformed slagging.
Slagging other people is human nature, but we're all capable of rising above it. Here are the two slagging guidelines that I happen to live by:
1. Don't slag other people in your community, and
2. If you can't resist the temptation to slag other people in your community, at least know what the fuck you're talking about.
On a blind note: I don't take pictures of known models, then compare them to every single ILM photo I see to find out if my kit has some lineage to the originals, so I don't know everything little thing about these, but I do make a concious effort to stay out of the conversation when I'm in over my head. It's easy to get into a fight - even when that isn't your original intention, especially when trying to ask a question akwardly (what happened here recently).
Back to the discussion at hand. I'm sorry Paul, I can't help you with this part - have you tried http://www.studioscale.com? I looked through there the other night, but I didn't see anything that looked like this, but I didn't check every kit scan either.
~ Cobra Chris