mrsparky opened this issue on Apr 28, 2013 · 61 posts
lmckenzie posted Wed, 01 May 2013 at 4:03 PM
Some nice models there PrecisionXXX. I grabbed the several of the buildings, including Mercantile, the School and the Shady Nook. From the previews, they remind me somewhat of Geralday’s great pieces, good looking and lightweight – and some have interiors and furniture – shoot!. Watched the last part of Ken Burns’ Dustbowl documentary last night and a lot of these are evocative of that general era and area. So many of the men who fought in WWII came from (and if they were lucky returned to) places like this. A few of them still exist but mostly are nearing ghost town status. I doubt that we will ever see their physical or cultural like again.
Ya do what ya gotta do r.e. removing them, especially if it’s costing you money or space you need for something else. One of the joys is finding gems that are just what you are looking for. Maybe the creator doesn’t think that much of it but for those not being able to model anything at all or necessarily afford to buy things it might be a great boon. One of the disappointments is running across a something, only to find that it’s been removed. As an example, there are similar houses, and one can always check the Trimble Warehouse for buildings albeit in SketchUp format. Am I going to find something like the “Shady Nook,” that perfectly captures every small town leisure attraction – probably not. If you replace it with an improved version great. If you remove it just because it’s not good enough for your personal standards, I suppose that’s fine too but it would be a shame IMO.
I would not have known that these existed if not for this thread (which is turning out to be oddly lucky for me). Unless it’s prohibited, I don’t see why you don’t put a link to your ShareCG things in your sig – or post one in freebies here with a link in the readme. I’m sure a lot of folks here would love these, but don’t necessarily search ShareCG.
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