--- In [email protected], "John Picur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I guess it's about time I added my useless comments.
>
> Somehow, a 10 percent overage in the proportions of a coupler
doesn't seem that significant to me when we routinely: <snip>
Those are good points John... my added useless comments follow...
It strikes me that anything but 12 inch to the foot gauge is in some
form "a toy". Some toys are crude and some approach museum quality
(whatever that is?), but they are all toys...
Modeling is a search for compromise from the "real" item
being "modeled". Couplers, wheel contours, wheel width, wall
thickness of plastic/ resin, detail amount and placement on
locomotives, handrail and stanchion diameter... It all ends up being
oversize, undersize, supersize or compromise at some point. When I
super detail a model, every time I see a new photo or study an old
one more, I find something else to change... At some point you have
to say "enough!", put it on the rails and go..., we all just have a
different "some point"! I suppose my own "no compromise" issue is
the sound of metal (hopefully steel) wheels on steel (O.K. nickel
silver) rail - See I'm compromising on a "no compromise"!
Couplers are not a big deal to me, they need to work, i.e. stay
coupled, the 802's do that. About the only time I focus on them is
when I have steam pushing on the end of a long train. I keep looking
for the spot where the couplers show slack - the actual point of
pull/push interface. I'm told that should be 2/3rds of the way back
in the train. The heck with whether the coupler is "exact" size,
shape, contour, color, whatever..., grab a couple DCC throttles,
adjust the locomotives on the point and the pushers on the rear
independently and find that sweet spot!
Back to work... in August of last year I made a written list of 19
paint and lettering projects that were over 50% complete. I
committed to completing them before tackling new ones. Well, a year
into the exercise I have crossed nine off the list - not great but
it's progress... focus on what you can control.
Jim
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