C-130 in the latest issue of FineScale Modeler Magazine

Peter W. · 2006-01-12T06:07:07+00:00

It is featured on the cover and there is a nice article about itinside. All the detail is absolutely stunning!Builder must be one crazy dude to pull such a feat.But ever since I laid my eyes on the cover, something has bothered meabout that model.I figured it out. It has incredibly deep and dark rescribed panellines! And they all have a darker shaded edges to boot. It makesthe entire aircraft looks more like a technical drawing than a realairplane.IMO, it would have looked so much better with subtle panel lines (maybejust drawn with a sharp pencil). Strange how someone can have suchincredible talent and patience to build a highly detailed model andthen then make a caricature of it. Unless the builder wanted it tolook this way... Artistic license?If that model had subtle panel lines it could probably pass for a realaircraft in photographs.I'm also not in a habit of criticizing other peoples work, but this onereally bothered me.I'm also not an expert on C-130s or aircraft in general, but I'velooked at bunch of C-130 pictures on the web and none had suchpronunced panel lines.What do you all think?Peteski