GooglyDooglyV.2 wrote:
And there's always a few like that in all hobbies. You should see the "elitism" there is in military modeling community. Kits that's made in China, Korea (like Academy), or American/Western kit manufacturers (Like Revell/MonoGram) are deemed wholly inferior compared to the Japanese manufacturers like Hasegawa or Tamiya.
But I have yet to see someone in any modeling forum/community voiced hurt feelings why their preferred non-Japanese kits are shunned.
Ah yes, the infamous "Joyless Modeling Numpty". They are out there but rather than the sort of "elitism" you see in doll communities, it's the "who has the biggest... uh, knowledge base". Of course, mention Academy and watch the JMNs have a total flip-da-flippity-f***in' meltdown. People will make stuff up about inaccuracies that don't exist just so they can have something to bitch about.
My two favorite moments in the recent past include a bitch and moan fest at Armorama over some guy's obviously "just for fun" diorama of WW2-era US soldiers battling a T-Rex and the never-ending howling about the "inaccuracy" of Trumpeter's E-series German tanks. As far as I know, aside from an unfinished, partial hull for the E100 superheavy, none of the other vehicles existed as anything more than design proposals. Oh, and how can I forget the recent thread at one board where two guys argued over the placement and number of gas caps on a certain tank? That was uh, enlightening.
