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ChrisDM
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Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 01:28 AM UTC
Ah that's a real shame.

I was about to take some decent pictures and enter this:


But I guess as it has a base (which is very much integral to the whole idea of modelling a destroyed vehicle from a famous action) and cannot be removed (how else could I bury the bogeys in the pebbles) I guess I can't

No figures, so not a dio, and as groundwork goes arguably extremely simple, but no longer eligible under the new rules
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Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 06:08 AM UTC

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Ah that's a real shame.

I was about to take some decent pictures and enter this:


But I guess as it has a base (which is very much integral to the whole idea of modelling a destroyed vehicle from a famous action) and cannot be removed (how else could I bury the bogeys in the pebbles) I guess I can't

No figures, so not a dio, and as groundwork goes arguably extremely simple, but no longer eligible under the new rules


I still agree with the no ground work rule.

Well done ground work makes the presentation of the model that much better. The whole premise of this contest is to send in a few pics of a finished model to be judged by your peers on the internet. We can't hold it, focus in on it, look at it from many different angles. One pic, thats all, no more. So with regards to these parameters the presentation of the entry is the most influential factor. If the photo is blury, out of focus, taken too far away etc it will more easily passed over as the quaility of the build cannot be fully assessed. The same goes with groundwork. A model displayed with groundwork will be more pleasing to the eye as a more finished product. And as far as this contest goes it's all about eye candy, which is why entries with the groundwork hold an advantage over entries sitting alone on a table or with a plain background.


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ChrisDM
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Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 06:26 AM UTC
I understand why there has been a change of rule, I just don't agree with it in regards to basic groundwork

Competitions such as MAFVA Nationals, IPMS nationals, Euromilitaire, SMC and others don't disallow it

Still I don't make the rules, it just means that, because I don't leave mine unattached to the base anymore I can't enter


Good luck to those that do
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Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 08:33 AM UTC
Maybe there should be a dio/vignett contest run once or twice a year?


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Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 09:14 AM UTC

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I understand why there has been a change of rule, I just don't agree with it in regards to basic groundwork


To tell the truth. A simple groundwork (a road, some plain grass etc) should be ok but we have clearly seen that some were abusing this rule. The simple base become first simple base with grass (till here ok) than trees than a portion of a wall brick up to.... what I've posted above. This way there will be no more transgression of rules.

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Posted: Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 07:13 AM UTC

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Ah that's a real shame.

I was about to take some decent pictures and enter this:


But I guess as it has a base (which is very much integral to the whole idea of modelling a destroyed vehicle from a famous action) and cannot be removed (how else could I bury the bogeys in the pebbles) I guess I can't

No figures, so not a dio, and as groundwork goes arguably extremely simple, but no longer eligible under the new rules


Hi Chris

that entry would be acceptable as the base is plain it is some of the other that have been pushing the boundaries of what is a plain base, ideally I would like to see just the models photographed against a plain back ground but I am not going to penalise entries entered on a single base with little or no ground work

HTH

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Posted: Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 11:42 PM UTC
Thanks for the Clarification Keith

I thought you were saying absolutely no base was the new rule. Better take some decent pictures then.
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Posted: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 01:29 PM UTC
I agree regarding this Churchill. Just compare your groundwork to the pictures posted above - two winning entries last year - those are not simple bases and new rule does not allow to use such pictures for the contest.

For those who fix models to bases - why you cant take a picture before you fix it???
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Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - 08:16 PM UTC
Call me wacko, but would THIS be acceptable? It took about 1 min in a "well known photo editing software".

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Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - 08:50 PM UTC
Keith
I'm not trying to be funny, but does an animal count as a figure? As if it where a part of the vehicles payload?
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Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - 09:30 PM UTC

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Call me wacko, but would THIS be acceptable? It took about 1 min in a "well known photo editing software".



well, that's cheating I guess. Otherwise we could use pictures like Zaloga
You vehicle looks great without those effects!

As for the anymal - if it is on a vehicle - why not?
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Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 01:04 AM UTC
I think overall the rule is a great idea. In future, wherever possible, I'll take pics before it goes on the base
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Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 03:29 AM UTC
Roman:
Yes, it's on the vehicle, but it's a live animal, so the big question is still, will it count as a figure, because if so, I have to leave off the driver.
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Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 08:52 AM UTC

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Roman:
Yes, it's on the vehicle, but it's a live animal, so the big question is still, will it count as a figure, because if so, I have to leave off the driver.
Jacob

Don't know really.... is it RevellZvezda BMW with sidecar with a pig? ))
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Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 09:09 AM UTC
Roman: The only thing I can say is; yes, it's a pig, it's alive and there's a one large vehicle. The rest is a secret
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Posted: Friday, February 11, 2011 - 01:27 AM UTC

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Roman: The only thing I can say is; yes, it's a pig, it's alive and there's a one large vehicle. The rest is a secret
Jacob


Jacob

if your unsure email me a single picture and let me take a look and I can let you know either way

HTH

keith
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Posted: Friday, February 11, 2011 - 05:05 AM UTC
Keith: I'll PM you.
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Posted: Saturday, March 15, 2014 - 04:10 AM UTC
A slight update for 2014

I need to have your name and address in the following format:

Name:
Street Address:
City:
Region: (if any)
Postal Code:
Country:

included with your entries, as we are having more and more entries from around the world, some times prizes are either going missing or being returned, we believe this is down to how we receive the various addresses. So to try and elevate this from now on we would like to see them sent to us in a standard format.

the rules have been updated to show this.

thanks for understanding

Keith Forsyth
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