Laws of Modeling 101

StephenLawson · 16 August 2002, 09:06 PM

Alright class before this gets too far off the track or should I say airfield, :

Question : 'What makes a satisfying model?'
Answer : 'The attitude of the Modeler is what make a satifying model.'

While many of you missed the '...in one sentence.. portion of the assignment, there is no doubt that all of you got the real message. To all of the participants and the readers of this minor work are given the highest marks and are undoubtedly ready to pass on to the next course. A+++++

The next course will be:
Modeling Philosophy 201 I invite all of the current and future class members to view the AMS Chronicles of Neil_E. Must read info for the next class (HINT)

16 August 2002, 11:36 PM

Will there be a final? I hope its multi. choice.

The If Granny takes the spark plug out it should be .22 " to scale. Can the human eye see that?

Then again with a AAA batterie (mags don't work very well in scale ) She could fire it up.

stringbags4ever2 · 17 August 2002, 03:43 AM

To Neil_E:

I hope to Gawd I never come down with AMS and end up in your institute, Doc. I'm just happy to bask here in my airbrush cleaner fumes

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stringbags4ever2 · 17 August 2002, 03:45 AM

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Alright class before this gets too far off the track or should I say airfield, * :

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Question : 'What makes a satisfying model?' *
Answer *: 'The attitude of the Modeler is what make a satifying model.'

While many of you missed the '...in one sentence.. portion of the assignment, there is no doubt that all of you got the real message. To all of the participants and the readers of this minor work are given the highest marks and are undoubtedly ready to pass on to the next course. * * A+++++

The next course will be:
Modeling Philosophy 201 *I invite all of the current and future class members to view the AMS Chronicles of Neil_E. *Must read info for the next class (HINT)

Thanks for the A+, teach. On to the next course, blokes. Lets bloody the Hun!!

StephenLawson · 17 August 2002, 10:45 AM

As for me I'm out to Starbuck's for a cup-quart of expresso. Any questions can be asked there if you buy my coffee and bisqcotti

stringbags4ever2 · 17 August 2002, 11:08 AM

As always, Steve, you have exceptionally fine tastes. BTW, I visited your Jasta postings again and printed out all the colorful Fokkers. I'm putting them up all over the lab walls. Just hope my boss approves.

8)

RLWP · 17 August 2002, 01:50 PM

Doctor Neil,

Great Aunt Dymphna insists that when she was serving as ground crew in Jasta 97F (Ahh the romance of flying...Ahh the romance round the back of the hanger of a Saturday night....) the nuts were hexagonal and made of brass. Where can I obtain 0.013"AF brass rod and 29BA taps?

TG56: 0.22" plug gap!! That must be one hell of a magneto!!

Richard

....this is all fine but how do I write "Champion" on the ceramic of the plug??....

NeilE · 18 August 2002, 06:54 AM

Richard;

Your Aunt Dymphna is a very naughty woman (and to think she became the toast of Soho after the war

) and is a big know-it-all. I know she thinks she is helping you with her accounts of serving Jasta 97f but Iwouldn't be too sure what 'spark plugs' and nuts she is referring to.....

Disregard her advice...it is leading you, Richard towards a psycholgical and emotional abyss...

Think about what the brain actually sees with such fine detail. If it is partially obscured by other features of the aircraft, then a suggestion of detail maybe just as effective. For example painting the brand name "Champion" on your 1/32 spark plugs may be the height of detailing (and likely to lead to commital and a trip to our High Dependency Ward) but it is in reality, darn near impossible for the human eye to pick out with clarity. However, one or two lines or shapes, creates a suggestion of detail which, when the brain processes the visual information, appears to be a brand name. This is because the brain may expect to see a brand name of some description there, because that is its learnt response.

Thus, detailing can be achieved without falling into the abyss of ful blown AMS...

HTH

Neil
Director,
Glencoe Institute
BSScm, BSW, MA Psych, Airfix University

PS Give my regards to your Great Aunt Dymphna...All of us here at the Institute remember her visit here with some fondness (well most anyway). Her torrid but brief fling with Herr Doctor Von Humbrol will be remembered as one of the great love affairs of modern psychiatry.

NeilE · 18 August 2002, 07:04 AM

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[color=Maroon] The next course will be:
Modeling Philosophy 201 *I invite all of the current and future class members to view the AMS Chronicles of Neil_E. *Must read info for the next class (HINT)

Thank you Stephen, the nomination form for the Frog Research Fellowship is in the mail.

Given the upcoming course, I'm available to participants for tutorial consultation at any time.

All the Best

Neil
Director,
Glencoe Institute
etc. etc.

RLWP · 18 August 2002, 09:32 AM

Doctor Neil,
Part-i-ally obs-cur-ed ?? Hmm could the engine cowling provide such an obscuration perhaps? No, no. I'm sure that by squinting down past the camboxes and under the cowling whilst using a high powered torch you could just see the very edge of at least the plugs on number two and three cylinders. Better safe than sorry. What font was being used on the plugs in late 1918? (It can't be as hard as making the paper filament for the oil filter was...)

Richard

p.s. Great Aunt Dymphna remembers Herr Doctor Von Humbrol with great affection, particularly his Matt finish....