My first every visit to Telford. Very excited. Thank you so much your video of the toon tank Sherman help me build my first kit which I am display on my lovely keighley plastic model club stand. Have a amazing weekend xxxxx
Please ask a judge this ; When you are judging a diorama, what would you value more on the diorama model itself (what gives it that wining edge over all the others) : 1. Extensive alterations and additions to a ready made kit, down to the minutest of switches and cables 2. The general cohesiveness of the entire build inc. the buildings, figures, vehicles with it all looking "together", but very little has been altered from the standard "out of the box" supplies. 3. Exacting accuracy ensuring every tiniest detail is accurate, sized and has photographic references showing an exact duplicate fantastic paint job, but again, no real alterations or additions. 4. An entirely scratch built model where no parts are used from any kit and each and every piece starts out as a piece of styrene sheet or rod, or wire 5. A standard kit with little or no alterations, but the paint job is so good it's exactly like looking at the real thing in miniature, down to the last paint chip on the wing and the stubble on the drivers face 6. A very well built model, all details are correct, that it's well painted & acurate, set in a realistic scene using readily available accessories, with nothing to fault it, but only one or two additional extras from bought kits, nothing truly "scratch built" In short, what has that winning model got, that none of the others have ?
I'll be there Saturday too. Hope to bump into you. If you have time I'd love to see some interviews with some of the category winners in the competition, asking then about techniques etc.
Please could you ask:- If they wished for one kit, that hasn’t been designed / produced yet. What would it be? Keep up the good work and look forward to your upcoming videos 👍
Owen I think your a great pioneer of brush painting, I d like you to focus on brush painted models at the show, just to show what can be achieved with a brush. As I personally find painting the biggest dread of making model kits and is the single biggest reason for having so many unfinished kits. Along with setting the bar too high in detail and drawing out the completion time so long that I,ve lost all the enthusiasm to finish it. So I tend to keep away from shows because I can never match their standards. Its more important to enjoy the journey for me, and stop being so over ambitious,
Ayt try not to get out with more than 3 models ok? :P Also small question you could ask, whats the best way to make the basic american olive drab camoflage more interesting (chipping, weathering etc.)?
