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TOWN building contest - categories
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Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:14:54 GMT
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Well, I've read all the discussion of what to include as categories and I'm
going to take a stab at a resulting list. First some blurb... if I included
all the categories everyone has suggested we'd have so many there would be
very few models in each category! To reduce the number of categories, this
list includes DAT files and real models in the same categories rather than
separating them. I plan to handle the objections to combinig categories by
requiring DAT files to only include pieces and colors actually produced by
LEGO (if challenged, it's up to the model designer to show that LEGO did
produce the colors and pieces he/she used) and that pieces are only used in
ways which are possible to actually build (no pieces overlapping each other
or hanging magically in mid-air with no attachment. Again, if challenged, up
to the model designer to show it can be built). "Size" of model is not
decided by piece count (as someone pointed out, in a RL model it's very hard
to estimate the number of pieces involved) but by subjective opinion.
Builders will be able to move their model to a different size category if
necessary before the end of the contest as the categories fill up and we see
what "large", "small" etc really look like. In the matter of
scale-of-building, I'm going to include Classic scale with Minifig scale
since it's much closer to that than to microfig scale (3-high doors vs
5-high doors), and I'm going to lump all the larger scales together
(Fabuland, Big people, Technic, Belville). A builder can enter a
non-mf-scale creation either in a scale-specific category OR in a subject
category, their choice.
Here we go...
Town Layout
Diorama (Multiple-building scene or natural landscape, smaller than town
layout.. incl amusement parks)
Large building (residential, commercial/industrial, train, monorail, public)
Medium building (ditto)
Small building (ditto)
Small vehicles (4-wide or 6-wide)
Large vehicles (> 6wide)
Small Airplanes ( 4 or 6-wide, non-space)
Large Airplanes (>6 wide, non-space)
Small Boats/ships (4 or 6-wide)
Large Boats/ships (>6 wide)
Structures (bridges, etc...)
Microfig scale (any type of building, scene or vehicle)
Macro scale (any type of building or scene, larger scale than MF - vehicles
go in large vehicle category)
That's 14 categories which I think is quite enough. I have deliberately not
included a Trains category, I would like to see a separate contest for
trains as their should be a whole load of subcategories within it. I have
not specifically excluded military models so a warplane or warship could be
entered in the appropriate size category.
Special awards:
Best use of detail
Best use of color
Cleverest use of an element
Best engineering
Most humorous
Best interior
Someone suggested a prize - It's hard to do that with so many categories,
I'd rather go with teh fame and adulation the winners will receive on LUGNET
:-). If anyone out there would like to design some buttons for us to use on
our websites (eg "Check out the town building contest", "town building
contest entry", "town building contest winner") that would be excellent. I
plan to publicise this contest via my Lions Gate Models website and my eBay
auctions too, once we get rolling.
Kevin
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