Dedalus5550
Sr Member
A while back, I posted a question about the Fine Molds MF--should I build it with windows or without? This was at a site that doesn't really touch on sci-fi much, and I wanted to know what people there thought. One response made a lot of sense. "Are you building a model of a spaceship--that HAS windows--or a model of a model--which has no windows?" (paraphrasing from memory, but you get the point). So I think of myself as building a model of a spaceship. If and when I get to my SS stuff, I plan on putting windows in--but yet I don't think I've ever seen that, certainly not much if at all. I will start this DeAgostini MF as soon as I get a few more months' worth (I've got 1-8 right now) and I plan on putting in windows (but otherwise doing much fewer mods than most people, or more than my old self would have done). I'm just wondering why so few people (if anyone) ever put in "glass"? Filming models had issues with glare, so studio prop makers had that limitation put on them. Modelers, though, put that limitation on themselves--or it's peer pressure, I dunno. I feel like someone would say--privately or openly--that a SS model with windows looks "stupid" but yet I don't see anyone ripping the clear sections out of styrene kits that are not SS. Seems like most 72nd scale FM MFs I've seen built up, they chose the clear parts over windowless parts. A lot of cars used in movies have their windshield removed for the purposes of filming. I wonder what would happen if someone built one of those models without a windshield.
Anyway,
Mike Todd
Anyway,
Mike Todd