No progress for various reasons and there won't be much, if any, this week as I have an important family do "Ooop North" next weekend.  Maybe the week after before I'm off again, but I need to get in the mood, 

Ques : How do you know you are getting old ?

Answ : When nearly all the invites you get are to 80th Birthday parties and Diamond Weddings 

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 20, 2023, 05:49:50 AMNo progress for various reasons and there won't be much, if any, this week as I have an important family do "Ooop North" next weekend.  Maybe the week after before I'm off again, but I need to get in the mood, 

Ques : How do you know you are getting old ?

Answ : When nearly all the invites you get are to 80th Birthday parties and Diamond Weddings 

And funeral announcements

Quote from: scooter on August 20, 2023, 06:06:21 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 20, 2023, 05:49:50 AMNo progress for various reasons and there won't be much, if any, this week as I have an important family do "Ooop North" next weekend.  Maybe the week after before I'm off again, but I need to get in the mood, 

Ques : How do you know you are getting old ?

Answ : When nearly all the invites you get are to 80th Birthday parties and Diamond Weddings 

And funeral announcements

Very true Scoot, how could I forget 

Any reason for a party is a good reason. Not to forget!

Managed to get a little painting of the Kittyhawk interior done. Not much, but any progress is good progress 

 

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 22, 2023, 06:20:48 AMManaged to get a little painting of the Kittyhawk interior done. Not much, but any progress is good progress 

Reflects my own day rather well. Interior painting. Not my favourite thing in the world, but still - a man's got to do what a man's got to do. 

Quote from: Pellson on August 24, 2023, 12:45:15 PM

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 22, 2023, 06:20:48 AMManaged to get a little painting of the Kittyhawk interior done. Not much, but any progress is good progress 

Reflects my own day rather well. Interior painting. Not my favourite thing in the world, but still - a man's got to do what a man's got to do. 

But does one have to do it ? I know darn well the vast majority of my detail painting won't be seen, especially as the canopy doesn't have an open option, but I still detail it to the best of my ability. I suppose its that, that sets us apart from other species, allegedly anyway   

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 25, 2023, 12:08:51 AM

Quote from: Pellson on August 24, 2023, 12:45:15 PM

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 22, 2023, 06:20:48 AMManaged to get a little painting of the Kittyhawk interior done. Not much, but any progress is good progress 

Reflects my own day rather well. Interior painting. Not my favourite thing in the world, but still - a man's got to do what a man's got to do. 

But does one have to do it ? I know darn well the vast majority of my detail painting won't be seen, especially as the canopy doesn't have an open option, but I still detail it to the best of my ability. I suppose its that, that sets us apart from other species, allegedly anyway   

That's a good question. My take is that I do anything that I theoretically could see from the outside, but I am rarely enhancing things beyond kit level if the chances of actually seeing something are slim.. However, building an entire interior in a closed fuselage, f.i inside an Airfix Nimrod - won't happen. Period.

In this case, I'd like to get it the way I want, even if I won't seee much of it once the anopy is closed. But as I'm quite sure I will be albe to see if I don't paint, I just bear with it, as the alternative is to be annoyed about it for eternal times. 

Me too.  That said I'm in the process of building a RW Airfix (current boxing) 1/48 Hurricane and thoroughly enjoyed assembling/painting the cockpit plus pilot - even scratch built a Sutton Harness.  And of course can now see bugger all!

But it was fun. 

Quote from: kitbasher on August 25, 2023, 06:28:37 AMBut it was fun. 

'nuff said, methinks! 

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 25, 2023, 12:08:51 AM

Quote from: Pellson on August 24, 2023, 12:45:15 PM

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 22, 2023, 06:20:48 AMManaged to get a little painting of the Kittyhawk interior done. Not much, but any progress is good progress 

Reflects my own day rather well. Interior painting. Not my favourite thing in the world, but still - a man's got to do what a man's got to do. 

But does one have to do it ? I know darn well the vast majority of my detail painting won't be seen, especially as the canopy doesn't have an open option, but I still detail it to the best of my ability. I suppose its that, that sets us apart from other species, allegedly anyway   

I'm always torn about how much detail to add. Some projects I get a compulsion to go all out and scratch build interiors etc and some (like a Breguet br.693 I'm currently building) have minimal/no interior and I don't even bother doing anything to them. Just get the kit built before I lose motivation 

AFV's don't often come with significant interiors* but, when they do, I get stuck right in detailing the bejeezus out of them, even if most of it can't be seen.

I do the same for aircraft, although not as insanely on the bits that absolutely can't be seen.




[*:  Unless it's a special boxing, although there are more being made & sold with interiors as standard^# ... at ridiculously high prices]


^#: Russian tanks seem popular for this ... Probably so they can be modelled in their natural state;

Quote from: Old Wombat on August 25, 2023, 08:40:01 AM^#: Russian tanks seem popular for this ... Probably so they can be modelled in their natural state;

   

Isn't it odd that recent Russian cosmonauts have been tankers and they're being launched into orbit from Ukraine?