Tag: contests
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Legal Redress For Scale Modellers
Are you a scale modeller? Have you entered a modelling contest? Have you been denied a major award? Now is the time to join the class action instituted to bring justice to your cause. Thousands of your fellow hobbyists have called for redress and fair compensation for their injuries. You can have a piece of…
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Will You Take Soup?
I note from a website that there will be a number of categories of competition in our Big Local Scale Model Exhibition 67 in fact. These are major divisions and subdivisions therefrom. No-one need feel unwelcome, and there is a good chance that they will go home with a prize. Who could complain? Well, not…
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Who Judges The Fantasy Model?
And how do they do it? Okay, if you are tasked with reproducing a model of a Willy Ley space ship as seen on a 1950’s Disneyland show, it is still fantasy – but the responsibility for the imagination has been taken out of your hands. Ley and Disney are the ones setting the pace…
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AI And The Contest Judge – Part Four – You Lose Points
The scale modeller who seeks love by looking in the wrong places – ie a scale model contest – will be particularly ill-served by AI. The ordinary run of contest modelling is hard enough: A. The business of conceiving a new model based upon the bias of the judges – analysing what they rewarded in…
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Is Out Of The Box Too Humble For You?
Go to a fancy restaurant. Order an expensive meal – prepared by a Michelin-starred chef. Ask for tomato sauce; see what happens… To their great credit and lasting fame, the people who organise our Big Local Scale Model Exhibition always leave a section of the entry form for people who wish to build their model…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Four – The Mysterious Models
I use the term ” mysterious ” here in a purely personal sense. The subjects that are covered by many modellers and gamers are out of my experience, and I can only gaze upon them with wonder. I hope they will do the same for me – even if it is just wondering if I…
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The Admiration Of Our Peers
There is no greater joy than receiving the genuine admiration of peers – no bitterer gall than perceiving their contempt. And you should be worried about yourself for realising how true this is. I know I’m ashamed of me. I hasten to add that I am speaking only of the scale modelling world. A pastime.…
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Satisfying The Judges
When you next go to a scale model exhibition see if there is going to be a contest at it – apart from the fights between the customers and the shops. Something that has models on display and judges marking them. Look particularly closely at the table with the prizes on it. They may be…
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Specialise, Generalise, Or Traumatise…
This was my choice when I was entering dental practice – I’d completed undergraduate training and was certified enough to be let out into the community to exercise the results of my training for profit. Or I could re-enter the university circus tent, sweep up after a different set of elephants for another three years,…
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To Whom Do You Advertise…
When you are not advertising for profit? My question precisely as I added my mite to the scale model table at the WASMEX show a week ago. The basic formula for the scale model club I joined was to set out a series of large tables with green cloth covering and place whatever the members…
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