That's about it Barry. Why stick to a single media when we have everything at our disposal.
People who only use one material and insist that others can only do the same are really sad and missing the point as far as I can see it.
On my model boat I have metal bottlescrews fitted to metal shackles and eyes fixed to a varnished wooden deck. Attached to these are rigging made of real cord. What could be more realistic? No matter how good you are you cannot paint a surface and have it look exactly the same as varnished wood.
I have just been putting together the insides of the bridge and I wanted to make a flag locker. All bridges have one and in old steam coasters they were usually in the wheelhouse so are an important part of the detailing work.
Anyway I made the pidgeon holes from stripwood and varnished the unit. I found a signal flag website and downloaded thier sample page, printed it off on plain paper, painted the flags with matt varnish, cut them out, folded them and put them into my locker. I guess that makes me a paper modeller!!
My point is use whatever means you have at your disposal to obtain the best effect you can.
When I used to put together my Airfix planes all those years ago I always made the radio antenna out of real hair as it was nice and fine and I had not discovered stretched sprue. (That was when I had an abundance of antenna's on my head!) Would that not have been allowed by IPMS rules? |