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Re: Need some help with some Train specs
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:35:33 GMT
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Christopher Masi wrote:
> You mentioned "kit-bashing" before. Maybe some traditional model railroader can
> straighten that term out, but I take it to mean that a modeler starts with a
> car/kit and changes the things in the kit to turn the kit into the model they
> want to make. I saw a very good conversion of a steamer to a cab forward
> steamer. The modeler removed the old cab, built a new one (using the old cab and
> some plastic goo?) and changed the detail work. I assume that is kit bashing.
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> That is not quite what we do. We do not buy a steamer and then modify it to look
> like a certain kind of steamer, we buy planes, castles, automobiles, boats,
> battering rams, nearly everything out there (other than a steamer) and take
> pieces and parts and create our models from scratch.
I'd call what we do somewhere between kitbashing and scratchbuilding.
Another term sometimes used in the MRR hobby is kitmingling. To use a
single term which would easily be understood by model railroaders, I
would just say it's very much like kitbashing.
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Frank Filz
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| (...) straighten that term out, but I take it to mean that a modeler starts with a car/kit and changes the things in the kit to turn the kit into the model they want to make. I saw a very good conversion of a steamer to a cab forward steamer. The (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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