[modeleng] Re: Styling of engines

At 08:41 PM 5/14/06 +0100, you wrote:
>Is it just fashion, or peoples personal preference?
>Or is it that designers used to be trained in architecture along with their 
>engineering training, which they no longer are? Any other ideas or
suggestions? - Alan

Alan,
      IMHO it is because we are "modeling" something and they generally are
not modeling but rather creating a machine with the purpose, usually, of
demonstrating a thermodynamic principle.  The majority of us who model or
build steam engines, locomotive or stationary, have attached to them the
requirement that it not only operate well but that it bear as much
aesthetic resemblance to the original, and pay homage to the culture and
industrial state of mind that produced it, as we can make it.  I've
observed that this way of thinking of projects is somewhat less pronounced
among IC builders, and as you observe virtually non-existant in hot air.  I
write it off to their lack of need to portray those engines in any form of
historical context, the only concern is that they operate successfully.


Regards,
Harry Wade
Nashville  Tennessee

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