[WWI] Voss D.III on floats

[Michael Kendix]

Neil:

Most shows around here, even the smaller ones, always have a Miscellaneous 
category to catch these types.  We never put Scratchbuilding with 
Miscellaneous - that to me sounds ridiculous.  If we combine 
Scratchbuilding, it's with Vacuforms.

Unfortunately, Scratchbuilding appears to be an area of declining 
popularity.  At the most recent US Nationals in Atlanta, I think over 2,700 
models were on the tables but only one single scratchbuilt aircraft in /48th 
scale - Sanjeev's.

Michael


>From: "Crawford Neil" <Neil.Crawford at volvo.com>
>Reply-To: World War I Modeling Mailing List <wwi at wwi-models.org>
>To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
>Subject: Re: [WWI] Voss D.III on floats
>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:30:53 +0200
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>
>It's fine by me, so long as models of this kind are in a
>"what-if/fantasy" class. The problem is that the smaller shows
>don't have that class, and they compete in the standard class
>or even worse together with the scratchbuilds in a misc. class.
>I think it's unfair, I probably spent a month just researching
>my last model, rebuilt parts several times so as to make them accurate
>and then I have to compete with a modeller that has ignored accuracy.
>/Neil C.
>