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Hello, Thanks everyone for continuing to provide input. Snake, I do not care of you start a poll on this topic. I do ask that since I have petitioned some people concerning sponsorship for this thing and have given them the link to this thread, I ask that you place the link of the poll in this thread so that should the people I have asked come to view it, They can find their way to the poll as well. Once again answering Gough’s Question. [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Dough Well this seems like it is going to be a lot of fun. One more question. I know that you haven't thought up every rule yet, but I'm just suggesting things to think about. So what about decals? Plase oh please don't say that I have to paint up a builder plate in HO... But then again since I'm probably going to be doing a MW build, I'm going to have many words that just plain don't exist. [/quote] Yes, Decals are permitted. My attempt in sponsoring this competition is to get model railroaders to pu***he limits of their skills and try out new things. Not make them endure some cruel and unusual punishment. With the myriad of decals that are available for all sorts of things, I would almost expect them to be used. The following is the email I have sent to Model Railroader Magazine. In it I have defined what I am hoping to do somewhat further and I hope this will answer a few more questions. [quote]QUOTE: Dear Model Railroader and Staff, Over the course of the last several day's, I have taken the initiative upon my self to sponsor and organize a scratch built model contest. This competition is being set up to showcase models build my model railroaders from scratch for use on their layouts. I have placed a thread about this topic on the Model Railroader forum at Trains.com and have generated quite a response. I have however run into several problems. Since I am doing this on my own initiative and of my own accord, I do not have a budget for anything as simple as prizes for this competition. I am wondering if Model Railroader Magazine would be willing to sponsor this activity. I am not asking for much in the way of financial support. Just some simple items like ribbon's and maybe some books in the way of prizes. Also I think if you are willing that it would be cool to have a construction article of the model that wins Best of Show appear in the pages of model railroader. At the very least I think this type of thing would qualify for mentioning in the "MR News Column" At the time I write this I am still coming up with the rules regarding the competition. But I do have some initial frame work in place. First off I have settled on three classes of competition. The first one is First-Time. This class is a showcase for those models that are entered that are first time scratch build projects. This category I created in response to comments from some people who are interested in participating, but have expressed fears that due to their lack of experience in this field will be drowned out and left in the dust by those who regularly win NMRA model contests. The second class will be Teen/Preteen. This category I have chosen because in my responses I have expressed interest in participating from younger members of this hobby some as young as 12 years old. Since I feel we certainly want to encourage these members to more fully participate in this hobby. I feel they deserve their own category. The last category I have decided upon is the open category. This category simply puts everything that does not fall into the other two categories, and is scratch built in this category. I have developed four rules concerning the nature of competition itself. But these are not all of them I wi***o implement. However I do not have the rest of the clearly thought out much less defined at the point of this writing. But the rules I have established are as follows. 1. Models could not be started before a set date. 2. Models would have to be completed before a set date and articles detailing their construction submitted at yet another set date after that. 3 Modeler my use some basic necessities. Like Doors Windows, Trucks Couplers, Motor, Drive train, and decoders but other than these items, the models would have to be completely scratch built. 4. Models can be of any type and does not of a complicated nature. This is not like an NMRA contest where the winner is chosen on a point system, but rather what the public deems to be good model building. I also intend the judging to be done by the model railroad public. I am planning on developing a web site that people that are interesting in judging the competition can go to, and vote for First, Second, and Third place in each class as well as best of show overall. Like I said, I have started a thread on this topic at Model Railroader Forum and if you would like to take a look and get a feel for the responses, here is the link. http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=1&TOPIC_ID=12255 Thanks for taking the time to read this and respond in kind. Sincerely, James R. Mitich. [/quote]
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