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Re: Proposal: TOWN building contest
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lugnet.town
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Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:01:13 GMT
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Kevin:
> In the spirit of the recent Classic Space building contest, I'm proposing
> (and am willing to organise) a building contest for us TOWN junkies.
Great.
> Here's my thoughts, to get us started...
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> The idea is to produce the best looking models, not necessarily ones that
> look like Lego sets.
Considering the results from earlier competitions (such as the
"Ancient Times" one), I would definitely appreciate some
categories with limitations similar to what the designers at
LEGO have to live with - most important of all scale and
size/piece count/cost.
> Scale can be minifig, classic, or other. Fabuland?
I would split the scales in:
* minifig
* microfig (no specific scale, but smaller than minifig)
* macrofig (no specific scale, but larger than minifig)
> Anyone can enter, up to a maximum of _n_ times
I kind of liked the Todds "once a day". - Otherwise no
limitations on the number of contributions. I would like to
see as many as possible.
> Anyone can vote, whether they entered or not. One vote per person. (This is
> different from the CS comp).
Fine.
> Should this be just buildings, or vehicles as well? (opens the door to ships
> and planes as well as cars and trucks)
All of it - but civilian only.
> Entries in by Feb 15th
> Votes in by Feb 28th
Fine. - Except for "some" writing I have to do at the same time.
> Include photos and DAT-only entries? in separate categories?
No. It complicates things.
> Possible Categories (not mutually exclusive):
What about setting up two sets of categories? One by
model type, and one by size/scale?
The latter one could be split something like:
* Small minifig model (up to 25 pieces)
* Medium minifig model (up to 125 pieces)
* Large minifig model (up to 625 pieces)
* Huge minifig model (anything large than 625 pieces)
* Microfig model
* Macrofig model
The former one could be split something like:
> Multiple building group (eg "Main Street" type scenes)(not an entire
> town layout)
Why not an entire town?
> Single building, residential (everything from cottage to hi-rise
> apartment block)(or split by size)
Not split by size - the second set of categories handles
that.
> Single building, commercial/industrial (including Train buildings?
> churches?)(split by size?)
Including transportation, religion, and other industries.
;-)
Not split by size - the second set of categories handles
that.
> Train/monorail related buildings
Included in commercial/industrial.
* Trains (including monorail)
> Lego-set type buildings
Handled by the size/scale categories.
> Structures (bridges, etc...)
Check!
> Personal vehicles (split by 4-wide, >4 wide?)
What about splitting based on whether they fit on the
road plates?
> Commercial/Industrial vehicles (size split?)
Same here.
> Boats/ships?
* Seagoing vessels.
* Airborne vessels.
> Categories by model size (# pieces)
Oops. I should read the article before I write my answer.
> I think this could be a lot of fun.
Definitely.
Play well,
Jacob
--
"Sleep is just a cheap substitute for coffee"
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| (...) I think your categories are too small. As someone stated, 1000 pieces makes only a medium-sized model. The organ in my church might use more than that. I still like subjective size categories. The contest guidelines may quantify what is a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (Forgot to post this to .announce originally - FUT .town) In the spirit of the recent Classic Space building contest, I'm proposing (and am willing to organise) a building contest for us TOWN junkies. I have some ideas of how we can do it (and I've (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce) !
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