Saturday, October 27, 2012



I like the Oz and Bruce am a late returner to military modeling--there is a vast difference this time around and the difference is the Internet and the laptop. 
The last time I had built a plastic model--there was no Internet--no means to access anything other than mail order catalogs out of the backs of a very very few modeling magazines----and reference material--what little you had access to you guarded as if it was the one ring to control them all from Mordor. Reference books were horribly expensive--and there were few...copy machines were a rarity inhabiting places of business only--



This time around at the modeling bench--is so, so different---I have a used IBM thinkpad T-42 that i use only for modeling reference...it's a seen better days...laptop i picked up for a song--but it works excellently to search for and save vehicle references, articles and to have open displaying actually archive photographs while i am modeling. The amount and quality of reference material available today on the Net even displays photographic reference of one off German experimental vehicles that never reached production. 


I appreciate the access to information and photography...and I appreciate the individuals who processed and uploaded this material to the Internet.

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