[Whiterook]

Originally Posted by Geek44

You may remember I mentioned once that I had a disaster with some vinyl tracks on a brand new Tamiya Panther G kit? That Panther is now my test model and it looks it. I had a try at the 'rolled' plate look but I was too heavy handed with the motor tool and the putty...if I'm patient, I'll sand it all back again and try something else. I've seen this method done well and it looks amazing. I was thinking about this last night actually. If somebody asked me to tell them in one sentence what helps me the most in my modelling, I would say; 'Building test models'. Even spare parts are adequate for testing new ideas and techniques.

Words to live by. Test models and spare parts, I can see, can be the best teachers. Someone can explain a procedure to me, or I can read it in a magazine or book, but actually DOING it is where method meets madness meets inspiration meets experience (not necessarily in that order, succession, or entirety of experience, eh?).