Posted by Loren Perry on August 02, 2000 at 11:58:21:
In Reply to: Re: How I'd do the decals posted by Bill Walden on August 02, 2000 at 05:10:20:
Hello, Bill -
: While your instructions about how you would do the PE windows is very intimidating, I think it also will be very helpful and addressed a lot of issues I was struggling with and yet had not the slightest idea of how or what to ask for help.
Thanks. I did not intend for my instructions to be intimidating. The job of replacing 200+ window frames is intimidating all by itself without any help from me! There is no quick and simple way to do it. My intent was to provide a series of step-by-step instructions that would yield top-quality results while alerting modelers to problem areas that they should avoid.
And now my message to all modelers of the Titanic: This ship was a huge and complex machine that had large numbers of elaborate fittings on her exterior. If you want to duplicate her appearance to the maximum possible degree, there is no way to avoid a lot of repetitious labor. I didn't come up with the need for 32 lifeboat davits and Tom's Modelworks didn't decide arbitrarily to create 200+ window frames for this ship. Harland and Wolff did this. We're just trying to replicate in miniature what they designed. So if anyone thinks that GMM or TMW or any other manufacturer is making life difficult for modelers by demanding more work from them, remember that H&W is the ultimate source of their problem. If anyone wants an intricately detailed model of the Titanic, then they must accept the fact that it won't build itself. The modeler must do the work. Not everyone can do this, which is why a truly outstanding scale model of this liner is so unique and rare.