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Re: Crowd Control (was: Train Layout Tables)
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lugnet.trains.org
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Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:56:01 GMT
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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.
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org)
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