Country Joe has the same thing i am starting to have too. It has made everything i work on hard to do. As it gets worse,"and it will" less details will be added. Its such a pain getting old...
I am happy I got most of my 'small details' done before the eyes really started going south. In six months...when I turn 75... I have to get my license renewed. I am already stressing the eye test for that.
A day late and dollar short. It is to small in any scale or gauge when you can't see it with an optimizer. Then it is to small. Now where did I put those N Scale rivets?
My patience is too small with installing decoders in the archaic Atlas locomotives, even the installed at the factory do not work. Why I no longer buy any Atlas locomotives. Hey Paul, 1922 wants their design back!
Every Atlas diesel motor in my collection no longer sports a decoder. They've been returned to DC, that is Analog DC. How do you like those Atlas apples?
Here is sosmething that might fit in here. Might I suggest a better option. Yet to be proven, perhaps. I'm afraid I'd send this model out to be painted. Just a quirky thing of mine. I want my units to come in brand new and break them in, get them dirty and beat them up as we go along... I have it from a reliable source that QC and QA are excellent on these models. Let's see if these guys are the next Kato.
Yeah, when I buy a new loco, I want it to look new! If anybody gonna scratch & dent it, it's gonna be me! But if you like your locomotives aged (and we're not talking about single malt Scotch), yet lack the skills, etc. to age them yourself, that looks like a very good option.
On a club NTRAK module we once painted two ball clubs in different uniforms. One guy could even paint numbers on the jerseys as well as facial details. You had to have a magnifier to see them but they were there. Most folks did not even notice.
This is a really nice module. There is a lot to see in this scene. In my opinion details that are too small to see are not worth adding. They will be visible in close up photos but when running the layout they cannot be easily seen.
Yeah, but the challenge is there. There is a bit of satisfaction that you have achieved something almost unbelievable. And when you have a few guys competing with each other, the kudos goes to the one who pulled off the challenge.
I enjoy detailing... way ahead of "heavy construction" in my book, but I also can understand the "good enough" concept. Rule #1 always applies...
One thing I have found with smaller details...the smaller they are, the more fragile they are !! Smaller items flying off of tweezers never to be found. Or just as you are about to finish a project up things start to fall apart !! I finally gave up on anything smaller then a 55 gallon drum for that very reason. YMMV.
Hemi, Nice signs! Russel, Great ball game! mtntrainman, Yeah, small parts can be a PTA, but I like the challenge. And things flying off of tweezers is infuriating! But I do work in parts smaller than a 55 gallon drum. Here is a clean-out port for my Z scale GN H4. https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/gn-4-6-2-h4-build.144447/page-4 Scott
