Herbert.
Please come down off the cross.
These "personal attacks" as you call them have been nothing more than an invitation / request (for months now) TO SIMPLY SHOW US YOUR BUILT MODELS TO BACK UP YOUR ALLEGED TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE. After all, anyone can hide behind the annonymity of a computer screen and for all we know you could simply plagiarise text books on the subject and copy the text DIRECTLY onto this site pasing it off as your own 'knowledge'. At times, your threads are more akin to an engineering forum than a site dedicated to building PLASTIC MODELS. Gross axle weights, gear rations, modifications to internal engine compartments, what vehicles that were never even produced WOULD (?) have looked like and all other manner of obscure technical 'advice' has it's place I suppose....but in building small plastic kits?
By way of ananolgy, your constant hyper criticism or need to comment on just about anyone elses built model or to "chip in" with an lecture (more often than not when not even solicted!) is like me turning up week in and week out at the training ground of a soccer academy and heckling the players (of all skill levels) from the sideline. Then, after a while, each time I pass comment on others, the coach throws me the ball and says; "Come on then, show us what you can do champ? " I don't even pick up the ball but rather after NUMEROUS invites to 'do my stuff', I just storm off in a hissy-fit and say - "Everyone's picking on me!"
If we saw ONE BUILT MODEL - JUST ONE and it reflected even partially the level of your suppossed technical knoweldege, Steve Riley, others and myself who to date don't buy into this "Herbert knows EVERYTHING" mantra that exists in some quarters on this site would be the first to throw up our hands and say - "HERBERT YOU WERE RIGHT AND WE WERE WRONG." What is so unreasonable about refusing to buy into a hype where there is NO SUBSTANCE to justify it other that "words"?
On a final note, if you don't feel us worthy to see your models built on the back of that wealth of knowledge you keep ramming down our throats, approach one of the publishing houses and do a book called, say, "How to build realistic Tiger and Panther Tank Models" and put your name to it.
I'm sure it will be a best seller if even a fraction of the "Don't go Herbert - we NEED you" fraternity on Armorama put their hard earned cash where their mouths are.
THAT would be a true measure of their unquestioning loyalty and support to hang onto each and everything you say. And if the book isn't a best selller, well perhaps 'the faithful' on this thread weren't quite the disciples you thought them to be!
Gary
