AHM/IHC GG1 to EP3 Kitbash Question

Anyone find anything more on this?

On 9/14/2007 9:55 PM Len spake thus:

Just to follow up on this thread, here's a picture (via poor man's digicam, my scanner) of my IHC GG-1s "C" truck:

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Pretty damn good detail, I think. (This is the Mehano model, made in Slovenia, which I bought sometime in the early '90s.) I hit the trucks with flat black paint to kill the plastic look.

An idea other folks should use, at least for relatively low depth of field objects like that, unless their digicam has good macro capability and they know how to use it.

Pity they didn't bother to match the wheelbase of the wheelsets to that of the sideframes. Points for the wheel center detail though...

fl@liner

Ok, splain that one...

Wheel centers don't line up with axle bearings, brake shoes way out of kilter, etc. It looks like they took a shortcut and just faked it by using an existing gearbox, etc., instead of doing it right. Like we've never seen that done before... They DID go to the trouble of doing the quill drive bits that are visible on the wheels.

fl@liner

Ah... Well it's close anyways and the only game in town this side of brass...

On 10/5/2007 7:26 AM fl@liner spake thus:

I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. Since the error is on the order of borderline invisible, especially at "normal viewing distance", I'm going to write this off as a needless nitpick. (Wonder how many other otherwise faithful models have this same defect? Now I'm going to have to go through my "roster" ...)

Don't bother - if you liked the models then shouldn't that be good enough?

It about has to be that way. Our models are full of errors of all sorts, but our eyes mercifully ignore the fact that things aren't quite right. You

*might* be able to get a museum quality model, but even it will have a few things fudged on it.

fl@liner

Well said!