Contest Starts February 21st!

If I can do it in 10, you can do it in 31. Our next contest is a speed-build. Take the next week to gather your supplies, kits, materials and ideas. Then on February 21, 2009 we start building. Tools down on March 23rd, 31 days later.

Da Roolz:

• You can build and enter anything EXCEPT Bandai Gundam or Gundam kits in general. Let’s face it, who can’t build one of those in a month. They’re too easy and really won’t push anyone to try new things and expand their skills. Any other kit in any other scale is fine.
• You cannot start before 2/21/2009
• You must take images, no matter where you are of your project and display them for the 3/23/2009 deadline. Call it a “Hall of Fame” or “Hall of Shame”.
• Kit must have a base. Not a piece of clear acrylic or a wooden plaque. No, make an actual scene-type base. Dirt, water, concrete, whatever. Be creative!
• You must show a dated image of your unstarted kit and materials as proof of not cheating. Be creative on how you accomplish this.
• Must show final images by Noon EST March 24th.

That’s it. What’s the point in this you might ask? Well for one our contests have started to drag on and on and on and without proper motivation you guys just procrastinate and don’t finish. I and others have found that trying to push yourself like this keeps your motivated. Also you guys are still stuck on Gundam. I like it too, but you’re not expanding your skills. Doing something else will make you learn new things and help you be a better modeler whether you go on to other subjects or back to Gunpla.

Plus it’s for fun. Enjoy this and go crazy! It’s cold out, what else you gonna do?

Glory awards for fastest GOOD build, most complex, and best vertical use of small footprint base. Fit as much as you can, nicely, on as small a display as you can. Go up! Perhaps there will be a prize or two at the end but the real rewards are the satisfaction in completion and expanding your skillset.

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