How important is accuracy?

TimMeese · Post by **TimMeese** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:10 pm

Nice looking rocks Richard - very convincing in all respects, particularly wrt colour and boulder size as you comment.

Atso - I also like the view that 'if it looks then it is right' (and I agree that does take time). The corollary to this is that if it looks wrong then it is wrong! But that's a funny one - I find great pleasure in observing things in the real world that I know just woudln't look right if modelled literally - very steep inclines, tilted chimneys and 'unrealistic' (!) weathering are amongst my favourites. (Actually, the Pendon guys can probably do a good job on tilted chimneys - I feel sure they have one or two - but I don't have the odd decade to spare!). I take the view that modelling is like painting in 3D and one is looking for good composition as much as everything else, in which case the layout, including weathering, should be balanced. But some might not agree...

Best.

Post by **richard** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:04 pm

Speaking of twisted chimneys, no one would believe Chesterfield spire if it was only a model!

Richard

TimMeese · Post by **TimMeese** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:39 am

Turns out that if you’re modelling the modern scene in Lincolnshire you should put your tilted chimneys in the back yards now. We had an earthquake last night (Richter 5.2), which I felt over here in Shrewsbury (Shropshire) at 1.00am. I hope nobody or their models got hurt.

Blink Bonny · Post by **Blink Bonny** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:28 pm

I felt the dying tremors up here in Yorkshire. Scared the s### outta me!!

Frazmataz · Post by **Frazmataz** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:05 pm

I slept right through it! XD but most of my mates felt it, and we live on the Wirral! The epicentre was near Grimsby!

Post by **richard** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:43 pm

Another one I've missed - I have yet to experience one.

I even did a thesis for my Geophysics MSc with the US Geological Survey in the San Francisco Bay Area working on, you guessed it, earthquakes!

Richard

TimMeese · Post by **TimMeese** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:04 pm

That's the third one I've experienced now - all in Britain. And every time, the same strange fleeting feeling. Although the origins are, shall we say, very natural, the experience is almost supernatural. I guess its because the huge forces involved are so out of kilter with anything else we experinece on a regular basis, and we just get a bit spooked...

silver fox · Post by **silver fox** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:54 am

An almighty crash, and then my bed was shaking, and when you wake up to this, you wonder what the hell is happening!

All my wheels stayed on the track, but they slightest touch with my hand and being N, half of the wagons come off!