When I was starting out, I was INSPIRED by the "perfection" guys. Al Kamm making an E8/9 instead of just settling for an E7. Jack work building that coal mine instead of buying a Suydam (like me). Or how about those articles about fixing up that same Suydam.
And, let me say, no one is making the new kids be run over by the perfection people. If they are, maybe they should invest in a spine.
I, too, think people should do what they please in this hobby, and let other people do what they please. And everyone should learn how to spell "rivet".
Ed
Here we go again.
How many of these threads are we going to see! I agree with you all, but no matter how many threads of this sort you put out, the "Everything MUST be perfect crowd" simply are not going to change their ways! To each his own, I say. This is a MODEL RAILROADING forum. Can we please keep the threads on THOSE topics!?
Ok, rant over.
howmus ARTHILL: I'm with you, you ought to be flamed for this. I may like my narrowness better than yours, but I won''t try to sell it to you or the forum. I am going back to trying to paint a sunset. No, no Art..... We should all be striving our very best at all times for mediocrity...... (pulls up chair to watch the show.............)
ARTHILL: I'm with you, you ought to be flamed for this. I may like my narrowness better than yours, but I won''t try to sell it to you or the forum. I am going back to trying to paint a sunset.
I'm with you, you ought to be flamed for this. I may like my narrowness better than yours, but I won''t try to sell it to you or the forum. I am going back to trying to paint a sunset.
No, no Art..... We should all be striving our very best at all times for mediocrity......
(pulls up chair to watch the show.............)
mmmmm...looking for a little action are we?
Far be it from me to tell someone how to do something 'correctly'...is there such a thing as 'correctly', I wonder...I'll stick my poker into the fire and say that maybe we should strive to some kind of excellence...even if it is our own...
Think I got everything I need..including the suit of armor
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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ARTHILL I'm with you, you ought to be flamed for this. I may like my narrowness better than yours, but I won''t try to sell it to you or the forum. I am going back to trying to paint a sunset.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Perfection is for perfect people.
Know any? Me neither.
Won't get any argument from me on this one.
Have you read the, "It's MODEL Railroading" thread? Same type of subject.
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
Having been involved in some way or other with Model Railroading since the invention of dirt I have to say a lot of things have changed in the hobby over the years. Some Good and Some Bad.
One of the things I note in particular is the old issue of the "Everything MUST be perfect crowd" AKA Model RR Craftsman compared to the "Good Enough" crowd.
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Whatever floats your boat I suppose is what is right for you.... B-U-T (there it is, the big but) In my not so humble opinion the whole Perfection is the only standard does a serious disservice to the hobby in general. A newcomer or a old returning enthusist of the hobby can be seriously put off but the Perfect crowd. Ok Ok, That's your thing but honestly. All that Perfection STUFF makes newbies just throw up their hands in dispair and say I think I won't bother if this is the way thing are in this hobby.
So much for my thoughts of the subject.
Choo Choo Willie
PS - Got my flack jacket on...
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada