Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2013 23:46:11 GMT
Tocriad.
It was such a fantastic coincidence when you fed me the "bright yellow with polka dots" line, that I couldn't resist producing the picture. It was, of course, light-hearted.
However, unlike yourself, many readers will never have seen it before. They may include a judge who once dismissed a similar model as being ridiculous, and they've just discovered that (through no fault of their own) they were unfair to a modeller. Judges don't know what to expect when they turn up at a competition table, they cannot research the individual subjects, and they cannot be expected to know everything.
Re bases. (Just observations)
According to the rules, a 'plain base' is allowed to depict the natural environment of the subject. Examples are quoted to help define what should not be allowed. It is true that a base can influence how a model is perceived, and that is precisely why it is not permitted to do so. Modellers do indeed try to use a good base to improve the subject, and the rules are there to prevent that.
There are some difficult areas: the example of the catapult can be explained by the similarity of a beached seaplane on a dolly, which is mentioned in the rules. A mirror is rarely a natural environment, as has been mentioned several times over the years, but it doesn't play any part in the model: it just helps people to see it. A little common sense has to be applied in these cases.
Dioramas are a different class of model, in which the base plays a major part, and are judged accordingly.
Some of these rules may hamper me, if I ever get back to entering competitions. My current fad is buses, and I have to accept that I cannot build a bus-stop pole on the base. This means that I will have to make two bases: one for IPMS and one for my home.
Someone submitted a Routemaster in the comp this year, carrying passengers. I'm told it was a good model, but if any further passengers had been standing in a queue waiting to board, it would have been disqualified. I have a bus in the pipeline, with a few standing passengers and an appropriate building frontage. I have another with an 'atmospheric' backdrop, without any figures at all. They will have to be entered as dioramas.
If you get hold of a Wallace & Gromit Austin van kit, you will find that it contains three figures, one of whom sits in the van, the second stands outside holding the third. This means that even though they are bought as a single product, they are classed as a diorama.
That's just the way it is. A line has been drawn. So be it.
It was such a fantastic coincidence when you fed me the "bright yellow with polka dots" line, that I couldn't resist producing the picture. It was, of course, light-hearted.
However, unlike yourself, many readers will never have seen it before. They may include a judge who once dismissed a similar model as being ridiculous, and they've just discovered that (through no fault of their own) they were unfair to a modeller. Judges don't know what to expect when they turn up at a competition table, they cannot research the individual subjects, and they cannot be expected to know everything.
Re bases. (Just observations)
According to the rules, a 'plain base' is allowed to depict the natural environment of the subject. Examples are quoted to help define what should not be allowed. It is true that a base can influence how a model is perceived, and that is precisely why it is not permitted to do so. Modellers do indeed try to use a good base to improve the subject, and the rules are there to prevent that.
There are some difficult areas: the example of the catapult can be explained by the similarity of a beached seaplane on a dolly, which is mentioned in the rules. A mirror is rarely a natural environment, as has been mentioned several times over the years, but it doesn't play any part in the model: it just helps people to see it. A little common sense has to be applied in these cases.
Dioramas are a different class of model, in which the base plays a major part, and are judged accordingly.
Some of these rules may hamper me, if I ever get back to entering competitions. My current fad is buses, and I have to accept that I cannot build a bus-stop pole on the base. This means that I will have to make two bases: one for IPMS and one for my home.
Someone submitted a Routemaster in the comp this year, carrying passengers. I'm told it was a good model, but if any further passengers had been standing in a queue waiting to board, it would have been disqualified. I have a bus in the pipeline, with a few standing passengers and an appropriate building frontage. I have another with an 'atmospheric' backdrop, without any figures at all. They will have to be entered as dioramas.
If you get hold of a Wallace & Gromit Austin van kit, you will find that it contains three figures, one of whom sits in the van, the second stands outside holding the third. This means that even though they are bought as a single product, they are classed as a diorama.
That's just the way it is. A line has been drawn. So be it.