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Old 01-01-2020, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by bigpetr View Post
Thank you for sugestions.

I have Ken West model, P-model, FLY and Betexa.

I wanted to build Ken West model. It is great model and looks realy good. I saw it beautifully assembled. But after some research I find out that it is not extremely accurate. I tried to correct it, but decided it will be probably easier for me to start from scratch. So I did. I have fairly accurate 3d model now. Because I want to make it extremely accurate I wrote this request for help with reference photos. Therefore to use Ken West model as reference has no point, and it would be unnecessary to make a copy of his model.

I do this kit mainly for myself. I know there are kits available, I paid for them and wanted to make them but they are not what I am looking for.

When I did scifi model (X-wing from star wars) I spent lots of time and effort to modify it to be as accurate as original model. It was just fictional scifi model where term "accurate" is relative. It is in my nature to do so. Now I am working on real plane, so I can not help myself to make it as accurate as I can. That is how I like to make my models. Informations are there (some of them difficult to obtain for me, that is the reason for this request), so I have no excuse to do my best. To have scifimodel accurate and not a real plane would be shame.

I know I could make other plane, that is not covered as paper model and not "25th" version of SR-71, but because it is one of my favourite plane plus the reasons I wrote, I choose to do so.

I do not want to compete with what is out there. As I know me, my version will be overcomplicated and with lots of parts to preserve complicated shapes of the plane and from my experience only a few likes that and wants to spend the time to complete such a model. That is why I think it is not direct competitor of available kits. But I could be wrong and in that case I have no problem to keep the model for myself and give the finished template only to the persons that will help me with references (or possibly build the model for him).

I totally get this. I'm a fair hand at over-complicated designs myself, but when I see things that are obviously wrong (like the vault cover and nose on the Cybertruck), especially when I see the same errors carried over in many models, I get an overwhelming urge to see if I can do better.


Best of luck on this project
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