Stephen schrieb:

>> Well, I guess the locomotive will eventually share that fate. But that's 
>> the idea behind it: To make something look really convincing, you have 
>> to go into details up to the level where nobody will ever consciously 
>> notice.
> 
> Now that is what I call a hobbyist :)
> It is the doing it correctly that is important. I once knew someone who made a
> four foot model train by hand. Turning and milling the parts, threading each and
> every nut and bolt etc. A labour of love.

I've come across quite a few websites of (or about) such people during 
my researches - from the HO scale enthusiast "customizing" mass product 
models  for the perfectly realistic look, to people working on "1:1 
scale models", i.e. restoring actual steam locomotives.

Yeah, I guess that's what I'm doing - except that I'm keeping it virtual.

(The thing I'm dreaming of is to one day build a, say, 1:16 scale model 
of the Apollo lunar lander. For real, not just as a CG model.)

> Keep it up.

I'll do my best :-)

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