An MLU Modelers' Forum?
 

At the risk of making more work for Jif, there seems to be enough posts on here to warrant an MLU modelers' forum. Hints, tips, ideas, Dana's latest goodies. And we need a regular place to badger Don Dingwall to get his resin CMP conversions into production.

I am too computer-illiterate and too busy to offer to moderate it
but that does not keep me from making the suggestion.

Cheers, as he ducks for cover . . . .

Bob:D

Opinion.....
 

Bob
We have lots of very skilled modelers here,like Don Dingwall and Steve Guthrie ,both of whom I know personally,but there are tons of sites that are dedicated to the model crowd,but only ONE MLU site....
And I take this off Jif's mission statement on the home page...

WHO WE ARE
MAPLE LEAF UPis an organization dedicated to the recovery, restoration and preservation of the artifacts of this unique period in Canadian history.

So Let's leave it as it is and everyone likes to see the few CANADIAN models ,like Alex van der Weterings magnificent 13 cab he is working on...
But clogging up the forum with a whole new crowd of crazys is not going to get my vote..(We have enough 1:1 crazy's here)
Let's stick to 1:1 scale...we have so few that we have to protect them ..they are an endangered species...
While this forum is flexible enough to support a modelers section,why over load it...??
Could you imagine if Vet's dottir built models..???
(Just kidding Carmen..)

Perfect logic Alex
 

I understand your point of view completely, and now suspect that I was a might selfish. It just seemed to me that modeling specialists in Canadian and Commonwealth subjects might find assistance from their 1:1 brethren, and maybe vice versa. Mutual support and all that.

Bob

I'm with Bob...
 

Maybe not an open modelling forum, but I would support an modelling forum for just Canadian stuff. One of the problems with modelling sites is that they tend to be focused on German and American equipment because they are usually the most available kits and stuff. If you are doing modelling of CDN stuff, you have to sift through all the other stuff trying to find CDN stuff.

But I also agree with Alex that we don't really want to overwhelm the system with modelling stuff, and there is so little CDN stuff that I'm sure the traffic would be minimal.

Attraction....
 

A 2...
And along with the modelers come the "Armour penetration" crowd ...and the war gaming crowd...and pretty soon the site has been hi-jacked and we lose the 1:1 crowd out of sheer bordome..or lack of interest..
I stand behind Jif's origional mission statement...

WHO WE ARE
MAPLE LEAF UPis an organization dedicated to the recovery, restoration and preservation of the artifacts of this unique period in Canadian history.

Let's keep it simple...