Your message touched me a lot. You have done well.
Thank you for using this topic to present what is possible with modern techniques applied by a simple amateur.
This type of process is a present and future revolution, without overshadowing the traditional method, far from it. A bit like the PE which came to revolutionize the model, several ten years ago.
I believe that the debate is not to put back to back two techniques to build a model, but to improve them and to have an additional tool to achieve an original model.
Besides, the two techniques can be mixed and give very good results.
It is not given to everyone to draw in 3D, nor to do scratchbuilding.
The things evolve irremediably in the field of the model. And I would say fortunately, it can attract young people (and old people! Like me) to this very time consuming hobby and much more instructive historically and manually speaking than other more virtual hobbies like gaming.
Because in the end you have to print, adjust, paint and glue the elements you designed yourself, which is not an easy task.
It also often puts you in front of your mistakes and you have to start over again to make it perfect.
The other attraction as the traditional full scratch as the background of talented people on this forum, is the pleasure of creating a model not commercialized and that can give ideas and a guide to manufacturers who would like to be inspired by the designs I make public to release a commercial project.
The other advantage is to be able to make copies or variants of a ship throughout its life, especially military ships, more easily, without having to start the project completely, it would otherwise be very tedious.
The first and greatest pleasure is of course for the person who creates this original model.
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Pascal
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