Subject:
|
Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains.org
|
Date:
|
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:56:01 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1569 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains.org, Chris Phillips writes:
> In lugnet.trains, John Kelly III writes:
> > I think it depends alot on what slant your train club takes. The train
> > clubs that are all about the prototypical designs I think have more
> > emotionally invested in their designs and display mainly for other train
> > modelers.
> I don't know if it is fair to make generalizations about the relative levels
> of emotional investment between clubs, but I doubt that anyone who brings a
> MOC out into public for display has less than an exceptionally high
> emotional attachment to that design, regardless of who their intended target
> audience is.
I'm not trying to minimize anyone's investment in time, material, or
emotional in their layouts. My generalization (and it definitely is that)
is that the closer a model is to prototypical, the more fragile details it
has, the more "perfect" it is, the more the person who built it is nervous
about having some break it. A hard and fast rule? You are correct,
absolutely not. *grin* No offense intended if taken.
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
|
| (...) True. If it's a oneoff, that is... I hardly ever display oneoffs, most of what I display is either commercial production work (mine from MTW, or others), or one of multiple copies, or if I really care, I capture it in LDraw. My bullet train is (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
|
| (...) I don't know if it is fair to make generalizations about the relative levels of emotional investment between clubs, but I doubt that anyone who brings a MOC out into public for display has less than an exceptionally high emotional attachment (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
|
35 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
