Vassili Grossman, in his Life and Fate, reflects on those who are not loved for their time, ie those who are children of a time past and time are not present. The present tense loves his children and hates the children of time spent as a stepmother hates the children that are not yours.
This reflection on time and leave their children to be cruel and even unjust, but undoubtedly real, and therefore, unchangeable.
When we speak of the evolution of the model ships, I emphasize the case, we must not lose sight of this unfair but pervasive injury time.
still very short time ago the people were lonely modelers of islands separated by oceans. There was hardly a model maker who knew somebody else. Each had developed a solitary life in which contacts with other colleagues had been or non-existent or Febles. Some were lucky enough to be close to others or even join a club or association, and the phenomenon of physical solitude is alleviated, but without But the intellectual solitude.
For decades this situation of solitude forging model needed to resolve by themselves, with wit and intelligence all the challenges and issues to take forward a model poses. Many well-resolved, others not so much in this magma sticking exceptional models that used to come from the handicrafts, they were great artists and craftsmen who had mastered the skill of their craft and turned their knowledge into their models. These outstanding were glimpsed in the distance by amateurs through one of the few magazines then in some occasional exposure, etc. Some had the immeasurable advantage in their neighborhood, town or village lived one of these monsters and benefited from direct contact with him. In the fog of loneliness and lack of means, these figures, teachers in a sense of the word, marking a gap was growing between them and the rest of the media and do not say modelers and casual. Time wanted their children, they were the favorites and everything seemed clear: they were teachers and, far away from the normal models ..
However, something came revolutionize everything: the Internet. In the overnight this development, misunderstood, evil eyes, cumbersome, messy, irritating, rude, etc, came to change everything. It was a process so sudden, came the revolution brewing in silence, I think - I'm not an expert archaeologist - the pioneers and were doing things a decade ago, web pages, protoforos, etc ... However, I think the emergence of the phenomenon occurs about four or five years around the forums, specifically the Hispanic and around the midship Modelismonaval.com .. I imagine that in other cultural areas, forums or Modelships Drydocks in the Anglo world, Koga in Slavic or Marine in the francophone et Modelisme have fulfilled similar functions.
I am inclined to think that the explosion took place for four or five years upon the opening dates of the current forums and starting dates intevenciones development, publications and, in general, all kinds of information flow modelistic.
Internet, and forums that are part of it, which changed everything, checking the old threads, I'm surprised how little we knew. True, practices, techniques, tricks, tools, tents, foreign models, aesthetic styles, competitions, exhibitions, publications, etc, which today seems to have always been with us, were totally unknown and not say, but unexpected.
Internet was new and had a paradoxical effect, brought an unprecedented wealth of information, a modeler could hardly assimilate all that every time I turned the computer came on the screen: new techniques, new tools, thousands of photographs of models unexpectedly good, were solved in seconds questions that had been distressing for decades. Suddenly the workshops were transformed and we toolboxes to build high-tech machines that we opened the door for work already completed before undreamed of. An almost unfathomable amount of knowledge: All models benefited from it and above all its models, just to see what our current models and how they were before the Internet ... ours and those of everyone. Without the Internet are impesables
French monographs, Mondfeld, the overabundance of plans, Proxxon, pear, Super Blue, quilt machines, cigarette paper end ... follow the list. All this would not exist for most modellers.
also brought something else and is the interface between modelers, in one morning, a modeler could speak more colleagues with whom he had spoken in his life ... began to weave a human tissue non-existent, with all its nuances of every community: filias, phobias, meetings, encounters, etc, but all that was and is an anecdote, the important thing is that we would know and creating links. Undoubtedly the son
Current weather is, or was it the time flows, Internet.
But the Internet is cruel, or rather two of his companions unchanged: the critical and anonymity. Policy criticism is good and bad, first criticism is enhanced by the anonymity, anonymous can say things that signed more free trade, on the other hand, the anonymity can disguise the simple critical defamation. But I think the balance is extremely positive, criticism debugging, improved models. When I put a picture of my model under construction that will be looked at, Look and evaluated by hundreds of modelers and many of them have no other greater pleasure to find the slightest fault or publish questionable end or let me know private. This allows the models to undergo a process of refinement or purification that eventually grows as a model. Escape this litmus test, however, think it does decrease as such. Do not put pictures of a model, or share pictures retouched, or share pictures "studied" or from afar, you can grow self-esteem, but does not improve the technique.
I think the information flow along the critical clearance has been the greatest contribution of the early Internet to the model. Internet
leave, automatically, dated everything. And I do not exaggerate, jealously guarded craft techniques were unveiled, weighed and discarded many of them cruelly, the models of those legendary teachers soon paled next to others who came from nowhere or from other countries which, thanks to the internet, they were so close to or more than my people.
He built the boat preinternet concept, that model of high quality fruit of a great craftsman, but know that in the light of the new archetypes immediately seems clumsy and outdated. Internet
respects nothing, respects no names or reputations, or paths, all questions, all bumble, every day we have to start from scratch. A great teacher published a book and instantly questioned, disassembled, examined, compared ... Barre books, written publications, to himself ...
also emerged, a curious figure, the virtual model, one that without actually making models, or making models very weak, accumulated knowledge and opinions on modeling, in the same way as a literary critic who does not write, or do it shamelessly, pontificates on great writers in literary magazines. This kind of virtual model, very witty, packed internet and looked set to dominate. They were the darling of his time.
Of course, we know that the network is also an excellent spot for vandalism and to dump all sorts of resentments and mediocrity, but this is part of the background landscape and is not, never has had more historical significance .
face of this chaos there are two skills of unbridled love, which coincides with the type of virtual model outlined above, for the whole model revolves around the Internet and all that is offline, - ironically, to build models! - is secondary. And, secondly, their denial "Internet? What is it the Internet? Does that place where everyone speaks without knowing? Does the one who has done a model, says the model of a teacher is so bad? On the Internet there is only crap .... and with this verdict many great models reject the current time and are hated for their time, condemning their models to decline. Internet is a drag hateful and disgusting, but can not be excluded from the workshop to the most powerful tool ever invented, however cumbersome that they are your instructions working and learning.
However, the time is flowing. Internet, we have seen, brought a new social fabric, human. Nicks nicks started talking, people now talk about people. Modelers who have met virtually on the network now known personally and are joining their social ties. There is a great community modelistic embryo beginning to bear fruit in an extraordinary development of events, exhibitions, meetings, associations .... most of them unthinkable before the Internet. Right now there is a real annual circuit in which all models have in mind four or five key dates and, consciously or unconsciously, he knows that at least some of them should be.
I think this is that we are entering a new stage in a new era, in which the center of gravity back to escape from the virtual to the real, or rather, to be somewhere between the two areas that are interlinked. The height model can not exist without the Internet, but can not reside exclusively within it. Autism can not return to the past, the modeler must enter the network regularly, soaking up the latest trends, latest developments, submit their models to the Scottish shower of criticism and colleagues discuss the best possible, but not his village but the global village and universal. But, in the same way, the virtual treatment can not stay there in that swamp full of ghosting and mythological fauna, but is a supplement but a tool., completing the deal almost daily physical and material with other models, events, exhibitions, quedadadas, partnerships, joint projects, conversations, etc ... In short, this conjecture
new times, which, on the other hand, always has.
