Well I thought that I had done a good enough job with assembly and painting to put the decals on and add a layer of satin acrylic to seal and protect the models. I then took some photographs of the RAF Emergency Set at various angles. Apart from using F8 that did not give enough depth of field to cover the models front to back, the photos worked out alright using the "slow" setting on my camera's flash.
The challenge came when looking at the photos enlarged to nearly full size (I rarely find digital photos to look good at 1:1 in their original format, too many speckles...) and saw all the imperfections in my work. The question now becomes, how much am I prepared to accept the models as I have made them versus how much more work would be required to improve the standard, especially given much rework would be required.
So judge for yourself if models in 1:76 scale need more work before being put away to one day go on a layout or if more work is required. Part of modelling is researching the original, something I am not so great at in the initial stages. I tend to research as I go along and that leaves me with late decisions like this, it's a bit like large software systems in that respect but that's another story.
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