How accurate do you make your model?

[dalej2014]

Another little just for fun poll. No wrong answers. How much research and accuracy do you aim for? Or are you a "build it for fun" kind of modeller?

[The Smythe Meister]

I do a LOT of research:thumb2:....
.... And then it generally goes downhill from there!!:tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:...
.... But I DO enjoy what I do,and that's the important thing:thinking:
Andy

[Guest]

I tend to vary between 2 and 5, depending on what I’m building. If (a picture of) a real vehicle captured my imagination, I’ll want to build that exactly as it appears there, though I make concessions to things I find to be beyond my skills. On the other hand, I have no problem either with building a model straight from the box with no regard for lack of accuracy that it may have. Most builds are somewhere between the two.

[BattleshipBob]

Since i got obsessed with StuG's i do go into detailed research and will be a doing a lot on the new RFM StuG which arrived yesterday. Other stuff i just build out of box

[minitnkr]

I usually research quite a bit but seldom try for perfection. Most results are OK to fine at a 3 foot viewing distance. Models that are very good representations encourage me to add interior/exterior details and appropriate figs.

[davecov]

If making a model for somebody else then I try to make it as accurate as possible. If making models for myself, sometimes accuracy is the last thing on my mind.

Dave

[Peter Gillson]

for me the research is part of the fun of the hobby and the level of detail depends on what I'm building. when I am sculpting a bust i try to get the uniform as accurate as possible, if it a bust of an actual person then getting a likeness is important.

when I build a vehicle most are of generic vehicles rather than specific vehicles, occasionally one will be of an actual vehicle, in which case I try to be as accurate as the research I have done.

also the mood I'm in st the time. Sometimes a simple out-of-the-box build is just what is needed!

Peter

[Lee W]

I go for the full research, get the info I need and then build it out if the box! :rolling: :confounded: :tears-of-joy:

Lee

[adt70hk]

Given that most of my builds are currently for wargaming, it's somewhere between 2 and 3. That said I do like the builds and markings to be in line with unit formations and the time frame wherever possible.

That said if I'm building a specific 'thing', as I plan to do in the future, then I want to try and get it as accurate as I can. In one case I spent hours on working out whether or not a specific set of markings would work on a Mosquito build I have planned.

ATB.

Andrew

[colin m]

I spend far too long researching. When I say researching, I actually mean looking at pictures, then all of a sudden, it's bed time.

[scottie3158]

I try to add the details that are missing, but don't build to a specific vehicle.

[Guest]

I spend far too long researching. When I say researching, I actually mean looking at pictures, then all of a sudden, it's bed time.

Build many models of scantily clad ladies, do you? :tongue-out:

[AlanG]

I'm between 2 and 3. Purely on the basis of time allowance and the limitations of my skills.

[Allen Dewire]

I'm sort of like Colin above, but fall asleep at the table (don't have a bench) sometimes too....I'm between 3 and 4 as I do a bit of scratch building of things not available in kit form and research is the key to making them. Researching is fun and you learn a lot about what your building too. It does suck when your building something using the info you found and then have to correct it due to new info found on it........

Prost
Allen (almost Ret.)

[Tim Marlow]

In the past I’ve been all the way up to five, but finally understood that that way lies madness. I’m now around two to three…..currently running on one though, painting fantasy figures :smiling2: