Mick Bonwick's Blog

I am glad that weathering is improving things Mick, but as I observed on the previous post, I do think that there are manufacturing variations and these may be significant. You can still see striations at 6' after weathering, whereas I can't see any close up!

Perhaps consistency of the printing process is a bigger issue than has been realised?

Tony

Yes, Tony, I noted your observation about  variations and I am waiting for my second model to be delivered so that I can make a direct comparison. Because each model is an individual print I don't see how consistency can be achieved in the same way that it can with a mould-produced item. There might be a technical reason, though, and that is way beyond my understanding and interest at this point.

Damn, you have good eyes to see that at 6ft! You know you shouldn't be using binoculars though?

Joking aside, I find once you have seen things, you can't unsee them. It's like the sunken numbers plates and seamless join of the dome to boiler on the DJM 48xx jump out a mile at me every time I look at it, or the curved joint between the cap and main chimney on the Hattons Terrier.

Hopefully your 2nd one will be better, there looks to be some well turned out ones in the main thread.

The main thread! Hadn't thought about looking there. Wally!

 

Some of them do look good and others less so. A bit of a fingers-crossed moment when it comes to expecting a good one out of the box, methinks. Many people are pleased with their acquisitions, so that's a good thing for the manufacturers.