I guess Nigel it is like a lot of areas of modelling to most of us, we all have our own preferences of modelling media and type but we can all appreciate the other areas of the hobby.
I personally have never been into card modelling and it doesn't really appeal to me but I can still enjoy looking at the finished article that others have made.
I once saw a model of the Prinz Eugen in card and it was absolutely superb but it didn't tempt me into wanting to try
I think that is one of the great strengths of this forum, we all have our own individual areas of expertise but we can appreciate others.
There are always those really interesting projects though that use more than one media. That is what I have found so absorbing with the model boat world, I am playing with model engineering in the steam plant, working with plastcs, wood, white metal and all sorts of other stuff and it is great to be able to combine these into one model.
You find a lot of boats are either very good on the detail front and a bit unreliable technically or superb from a mechanical point of veiw and a bit weak as a model so I like to think that I can put something together that crosses many boundaries.
I also thoroughly enjoyed the U-Boat which was a purely plastic experience that I hadn't had for a few years!! |