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QUOTE: Originally posted by Odd-d WOW!! You seem to have mastered Ellison's style. Style is important. While I admire Ellison, I'm not Ellison, I am Odd-d and I have to have my own style. Style is what makes a pike a complete whole. I would be interested in seeing you build something original in Ellison's style. My free unbidden advice for the day is to not let yourself be trapped in the past, Ellison's past. If Ellison were still active today he would have built many more models since he built those. There are many great structure modellers all of them having their own recognizable style. E. L. Moore, Jack Work, Lloyd Geibner are a few that come to mind. Their work was just as good as Ellison's but each had a style of his own. I remember a story about how George Gershwin, the famous composer, admired Maurice Ravel, another great composer, so much that he visited him for a while to understudy him. He must have been pretty obsequious because finally Ravel asked him if he would rather be a first rate Gershwin or a second rate Ravel. So Try to develop a style of your own....your work will be better. Odd-d
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