

(.) Understandably, a kit manufacturer that can access a highly accurate and detailed computer model may, ultimately, develop a highly accurate kit that meets the demanding requirements of contemporary modellers.(.) Perhaps in the future there will be a community of committed artists such as yourself who develop truly accurate computer models that are adapted by kit manufacturers for consumption by your audience in these forums. It makes me wonder if the best reference material is in fact an intact example of the relevant aircraft which can be measured and examined in detail for all the subtleties that really only become evident to the mind when one examines them very closely.

If anything, your work has opened my eyes to the limits of the available material we so often rely upon as being authoritative in our discussions concerning accuracy. If, for example, this model were converted into a kit, would there be any "true" expert that could criticise it having regard for the public documentation of its development? I suspect that there would be "critics" nonetheless, who by reference to inaccurate documentation you have already identified or the naturally occurring distortion within images that you have already demonstrated, may in ignorance criticise a new release anyway. Understandably, a kit manufacturer that can access a highly accurate and detailed computer model may, ultimately, develop a highly accurate kit that meets the demanding requirements of contemporary modellers. Another use may be computer generated artwork. You've identified two uses: paper models and flight simulators. I would expect that the development of a highly accurate computer model could potentially have quite a number of applications.
#SBD DAUNTLESS LICENSE#
The ultimate result will be a Dauntless model released on the CC license - like this P-40B model, which was already adapted as a paper model and for a flight simulator. I am from another, new branch of scale modeling, that emerged during first decade of this century (see more here). Thank you! In fact, I am not focused on the plastic kits.
