Model Making Standard on this Forum

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At least I know that I'm at the right forum which is SMF!!! You guys rockssssss

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Great thread , I don`t post as much as I should but I do stick my head in everyday to see whats going on , I agree the standard of modelling is top notch but what I love about the SMF is that it has not changed , it does not matter what age - gender - level or skill a member has everyone still offers help - praise -encouragement and long may it continue ,


And thats down to John the mods ( not the ones with parker coats and Lambrettas ) and above all the members ,


Cheers


Richy

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After starting this piece I became worried that all the talk of the high level of some of the work might be detrimental.


Just to say that we all started form the bottom with skills and that those who have attained great skills shown here started at that bottom in the learning curve.


Not sure how to put this. But most of us are on a learning curve at a standard at varying intervals below the top models on this forum.


To those model makers show all your finished models and not to worry about your own standard as against others producing top models. That is essential to this forum and the way it operates for all what ever standard.


One thing I have just loved about this forum is seeing the progress of those who have shown their models for us all to see.


My challenge is for all to keep showing their achievements what ever stage they are at. I found it difficult to decide to show my earlier models until I realised that I must. That gave me confidence as I felt on the first rung of the ladder and determined to improve. Competition is within each of ourselves not competition with others and that is the best competition you can ever have.


Laurie

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I agree Laurie, everyone's on some level of the learning curve - it'd be very boring to excel at everything!


However, competition is both natural & healthy, so I doubt you've any reason to worry about this thread.


We all seek to improve, learning from others along the way & as long as we can still laugh at ourselves we know we're not megalomaniacs with secret world-domination fantasies.


Now where did I put my copy of Mein Kampf? :P

[Gern]

we know we're not megalomaniacs with secret world-domination fantasies.

You speak for yourself Patrick! I wouldn't mind a go at world domination for a while. Just as a break of course - I'd give it back! Honest I would!

[grumpa]

I agree Laurie, everyone's on some level of the learning curve - it'd be very boring to excel at everything!
However, competition is both natural & healthy, so I doubt you've any reason to worry about this thread.


We all seek to improve, learning from others along the way & as long as we can still laugh at ourselves we know we're not megalomaniacs with secret world-domination fantasies.


Now where did I put my copy of Mein Kampf? :P

I'm looking right at mine as I speak!

[grumpa]

I just love this forum! Have thought of joining others and looked around a bit but they all seemed so technocratic and impersonal. There just wasn't that warm personal feeling there seems to be here, so here I'll stay! Have to make a conscious effort to be more active in my modeling now that the busy season is on but now that there are others to share with {besides the boy} I now know that I will be. Thank you ALL for rekindling my love for this hobby and I mean that from the very bottom of my heart! You Grumpy Jim

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very bottom of my heart! You Grumpy Jim

You can love me Jim but only at a distance -- please.


Laurie

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You can love me Jim but only at a distance -- please.
Laurie

You can't get much further away than America and Jersey Laurie

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You can't get much further away than America and Jersey Laurie

Got to be careful Ian.


On a good day in Jersey (the real old one), no haze, on the top of the cliffs on the west side you can just glimpse the USA. This viewing spot is right next to a pub.


Laurie

[grumpa]

You can love me Jim but only at a distance -- please.
Laurie

As long as I live I will never get British humor, if that's what you call it.

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Now where did I put my copy of Mein Kampf? :P

Did you know that there was Nazi plan to establish a Nationale Reichskirche? It would have little to do with any recognisable Christian church, partly due to the difficult (Jewish) origins of Christianity, at least to the Nazis.


Alfred Rosenberg, who led the aggressively anti-Christian movement within the Nazi party, along with such charming men as Himmler, Bormann and Heydrich, proposed a thirty point plan for the conversion of the existing German churches.


It is a fairly unsavoury list as you can imagine. Point number 19 leaves no doubt what sort of church this was to be.


'19. On the altars must be nothing but Mein Kamf (to the German nation and therefore to God the most sacred book) and to the left of the altar a sword.'


Point number 13 had already dealt with the Bible.


'13. The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the Bible in Germany...'


'Nazi' has become a term that has become devalued in modern times, applied to groups or parties with right wing politics, some of whom might share some of the views of the original National Socialist movement. I think this is dangerous. We should all know what real Nazis were, not just what they were capable of.


Steve

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As long as I live I will never get British humor, if that's what you call it.

You no thinka I no serious "Jim lad" Eeez no British Humour eat is miffed. Zee only umour we ave is Mr Mill E Band and eez balls wicher ee cally Eddy.


Laurie

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Did you know that there was Nazi plan to establish a Nationale Reichskirche? It would have little to do with any recognisable Christian church, partly due to the difficult (Jewish) origins of Christianity, at least to the Nazis.
Alfred Rosenberg, who led the aggressively anti-Christian movement within the Nazi party, along with such charming men as Himmler, Bormann and Heydrich, proposed a thirty point plan for the conversion of the existing German churches.


It is a fairly unsavoury list as you can imagine. Point number 19 leaves no doubt what sort of church this was to be.


'19. On the altars must be nothing but Mein Kamf (to the German nation and therefore to God the most sacred book) and to the left of the altar a sword.'


Point number 13 had already dealt with the Bible.


'13. The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the Bible in Germany...'


'Nazi' has become a term that has become devalued in modern times, applied to groups or parties with right wing politics, some of whom might share some of the views of the original National Socialist movement. I think this is dangerous. We should all know what real Nazis were, not just what they were capable of.


Steve

The amazing point was that the German's got it right very early on.


He, Hitler that is was arrested for the “Beer Hall Putsch” and chucked in jail for 5 years. First mistake they let him write the first part of Mein Kamf while in jail. Second they let him out after I think from memory 9 months.


Can you just believe all of that.


Quite a difference. If we do not like our leaders we can be rude. If we do not like them, for instance Maggie, they are dismissed in double quick time. We moan about politics but keep it as it is equal. An escape clause. Not many countries in this world can do that. Including the USA. Even Nixon, a crook if ever there was one, took a lot dislodging. In the UK you do not have to be a crook to get your marching orders.


Laurie

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You no thinka I no serious "Jim lad" Eeez no British Humour eat is miffed. Zee only umour we ave is Mr Mill E Band and eez balls wicher ee cally Eddy.
Laurie

Gee , and you always seemed to have such a command of the English language, too bad Bletchley Park is no longer decrypting, as I could use a bit of Ultra at the mo