@Eccentric Crank Excellent.
To put some context to what is being said about things being offered, yes, that is true as I myself talked about a different item of which I am not an expert on in any way or shape, but I found something that had bearing on the model at hand. Granted it wasn't the look of it, but the sound.
While the sound is else entirely, it still does matter as much as the colors, and everything else we are talking about. I know we have talked about accuracy, and there have been big slip ups that only those that know because they have(or had) firsthand knowledge of the real deal, or we're aquatinted with someone who knew. I turn my eyes to Hot Water because he was trying to explain to someone who didn't want to listen about the whistle not being even close to what was on the real thing. The other thing was the other whistles which also were not on the real deal. I know some people would let that slide with some of the models that come to their hands, heck, I did because what do I know.
Point here is that we have folks that know what is what, offered help, and the help was taken for whatever it was worth. That should be something that would make a person proud, that what they offered was very good advice/facts/you name it.
With that being said, just like I said it right there, how do you think that makes that person feel? Just about the same as having a model that should be a shining light of what once was, but has not come close. The people who offered now may feel like what they say is worthless. Well, I don't think so, not in my book. I do value what they have to say, and heck yeah what they have already said.
If the model is to your liking, regardless of inaccuracies, then you are all good. If it isn't, well, you have options much like we have seen countless times already.
This seems to be getting down to one thing above all. Name. That is not a good thing to stick with if you don't have something else to go with it.
Pat will tell you, I'm asking him to do what he does best, make more Hudson's. I think my catalog days are very nearly over, especially when I missed the original Dreyfuss offering years ago(I did get the engine recently), and now here we are.
"Ring ring ring", another old Hudson out there for sale on the secondhand market. @harmonyards hear that Pat, another one coming your way. 👍