fine art

[apache]

Soz for postiing this in the wrong place, didn't realise there was a scale models bit, anyway check out this for the ultimate in scale

www.fineartmodels.com/pages/index.asp?content_area=3

[gopher]

I have to say that every model there is fantastic, to have a 10th of that skill.....

[chris watton]

gopher said:

I have to say that every model there is fantastic, to have a 10th of that skill.....

I know Fine Art models - the models used to be nigh on perfect, we see them every year at the Nuremburg Toy Fair - some of the methods used are simple but very well executed - but you would be suprised how they are actually put together, and by whom....
Excellent looking models though, without a doubt, but from my point of view, a lot of the attraction of models is building it yourself, and having a thing of beauty you can display and be proud of, knowing that 'you' did it, and not, perhaps, a large group of ex Eastern block workers being paid not a lot at all - not referring to Fine Art Models of course, just a general example.

[apache]

Well to be hyper critical the WLA is completely out of proportion and something weird happened to the Mustang, it started of as a beautiful and clean thing with a yellow oil tank then morphed into a dirty and badly finished thing. How do they make em as a matter of interest?

[Zad]

They all look very "clean" and out-of-the-box to be honest. A bit too much like a model and not what the model is supposed to represent. I feel I can say this because of the huge prices they are charging! The only model I know a fair bit about is the Type VII-C U-boat, and it looks like they based the model on the U-995 memorial at Laboe but just didn't get it *quite* right. A straight Revell VII-C would seem more convincing, but I do like dirtied-down models that look like they have a bit of age - this one is a standard out-of-box without any of the additional brass or resin parts etc:




I can only aspire to this guy's creations:

www.dynamicdioramas.org/MODEL%20SOURCE/duelatsea/duelatsea.html

Mind you, the Corvette does have around £1000 of custom parts on it (to car people, the Corvette is the big boat, not a car).