2003 A.F Model Of The Year Contest

Its that time again !! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :)

PLEASE read this over and over before you post a question etc

Cheers
PMan


"AF's 2003 MODEL OF THE YEAR"

The rules will be ....

*Only open to AF members who have joined AF BEFORE the 1st December 2003
*Must be a model built this year (2003) by a AF member before the 31st December 2003.
*Entry will open on the 1st December and close on 31st December 2003...NO models will be accepted before this date
*One photo only will be posted...so make it a good one.
*The photo MUST be uploaded from AF
*Only ONE model per person
*The contest will be open to the FIRST 40 MODELS I RECEIVE due to the amount of people that are members on AF. So you will need to be quick if you want to enter. (This may change if we get flooded with entries)
*Open to cars and bikes only.
*The Modeling Mods decision will be FINAL
*This is run as a Peoples Choice contest.....no category for different models

HOW TO ENTER.

*Two photos to be sent by Private Message to .....Me, "Primera Man"
*ONE photo for the contest…the SECOND photo to show that the model is yours. Take a photo of the model with you’re A.F name on a piece of paper with the model to prove it’s yours
*Photo's only...no text

HOW TO VOTE.

*Once all the cars have been intered I will make a thread at the start of the year.
*Each model will have a number to vote beside it, and the person who built the kit.
*To vote, simply send a PM to me with your vote....NO OTHER VOTES WILL BE ALLOWED
*You can vote for THREE (3) MODELS
1st=3pts
2nd=2pts
3rd=1pt

*Only AF members can vote that are members BEFORE the 31st December 2003. This will also stop people logging on with different names to vote again. If a vote is suspect, I can check it out and it will be deleted along with the entry of the model.
*You CAN NOT vote for your own model
*The thread will be locked so you can view them only.
*My idea of this is so that it will ONLY have the pics of the models.
*It stop's people from voting twice from other computer's etc
*Stop's any AF Mod from deleting or changing the votes......You guys will have to trust me on this !!!
*This way if the poll is changed in any way I will know as I will have all the votes.
*The judges vote will be FINAL.
*In the event of a tie...i will go through the votes to see who had the most 3pt votes to get a winner.
*The updates of voting will be posted every 1-2 days
*Voting will finish on the 31st January 2004 and the winner can then show off as much as they like !!!

I will enter the contest, but in the event of myself coming first, the runner up will receive the prize

I will give a prize out to the winner.

I'll buy a kit of some kind (A new Tamiya/Revell/Fujimi), also some compound, tape etc ….. and will send it to the winner.
Chris (flyonthewall) has also very kindly decided to give one of his SAS kits as a prize also
Tonioseven will add a prize also.

If any body else wishes to add a prize…..let us know so it can be added to the winners list !!

So stay tuned for the kit i get !!

Remember....this is just abit of FUN.....Don’t flame me or others if things don’t go your way. I'm doing this for SOMETHING THAT I HOPE YOU WILL ALL ENJOY AGAIN.
As I said before...you guys will have to trust me on this one with the voting. The only person that will see the voting will be Myself or the other modeling mods if I decide I need a hand with a decision. All I ask is for you all to be honest and help out our own little "AF Model Club"

Last years A.F.M.O.T.Y was a huge success and hopefully this years will be even better.

You can help out by adding the contest into all of your sigs to remind people :naughty:

Cheers
Modeling Mods


PS...This thread will be made a sticky soon

Yoohoo !

Finally , another motivation to finish those lingering projects !

P-man and others, thanks for organising this and making it BIG, the gramps of the modeling contests !

Let's hope we'll get a lot of inscriptions, and a lot of voters !

Count me in !

ciao

Olivier

The contest we all been waiting for! I'll try and cook up an entry! :)

and are we aloud to enter diorama's?

Well, are all the entries all full? and are we aloud to enter diorama's?

*No entries untill the 1st of December
*You can enter a diorama with a car in it if you want

Max pixel size, please? P-man, you don't want to resize so many pictures, do you?
640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768 ?
Also, multiple images (for example front and rear) in one picture is permitted, right?


<Tip for new members>
* Web camera is no go. Arrange to borrow a digicam or SLR from your friends before the contest.
* Good lighting will greatly improve the photo.
* Don't try to fill the view finder with a model to take a close up photo, or the image might turn out blurry. Try to focus first, then crop the image with a photo editing software.

Max pixel size, please? P-man, you don't want to resize so many pictures, do you?
640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768 ?
Also, multiple images (for example front and rear) in one picture is permitted, right?


Since you have to upload the images to AF galleries, I would imagine the limiting factor would be the size of the image you can upload there.

Well, exactly wut time are we allowed to PM P-man for the entries? We all live in different time zones, and only the first 40 are allowed...

Wow... uh... so i can join? cool.

edit: oh yeah... shouldnt there be a category? ie: Best Replica, Best something... blah blah?

Wow... uh... so i can join? cool.
edit: oh yeah... shouldnt there be a category? ie: Best Replica, Best something... blah blah?

As he said
*This is run as a Peoples Choice contest.....no category for different models

Thanks for the help here Steve.

Only photo's under 640X480 please to allow them to load quicker.
Multiple images in one picture is permitted

As for the differance in time zone....New Zealand is around 12-18 hours ahead of most places....check it out here......
www.worldtimeserver.com

Looks like I'd better buckle down and finish off that Stang I got goin'. Gotta get it lookin' real purty. the paint will blow you away :iceslolan Can't wait to see what you guys can put together too.

This is for the people who have sent me entries already !!! :rolleyes:

PLEASE READ THE RULES !!!......ENTRIES ARE NOT ACCEPTED UNTILL THE 1ST DECEMBER 2003

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yep I'll be trying my best to get my RX-8 ready for this =]
Got something special up my sleeve! I won't win but it'll be good to see everyone else bringing out their very best!


Regards,
Ryan

It`s that time again already?! Unfortunately, I won`t be able to participate, or atleast build something special for this. I am looking forward to seeing what gets entered this year though, and I am sure it will be spectacular! :)

It`s that time again already?! Unfortunately, I won`t be able to participate, or atleast build something special for this. I am looking forward to seeing what gets entered this year though, and I am sure it will be spectacular! :)
So you're giving someone else a chance to win? :D Hehe :)

It`s that time again already?! Unfortunately, I won`t be able to participate, or atleast build something special for this. I am looking forward to seeing what gets entered this year though, and I am sure it will be spectacular! :)

I bet there were a few sighs of relief when they read that. Remember, you don't have to make something specificly for the comp, just has to have been built this year.

Anyway judging by my build rate this year (Nismo R34 (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t96025.html) was last model finished in Feb), i too think i may be out of the running this year.

I bet there were a few sighs of relief when they read that. Remember, you don't have to make something specificly for the comp, just has to have been built this year.

Anyway judging by my build rate this year (Nismo R34 (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t96025.html) was last model finished in Feb), i too think i may be out of the running this year.

i would so love to enter my soon to be STARTED :( KPGC-10 hybrid mobile, but its my first model, it may turn out shitty, although i am keen on this stuff. but im dead sure i wont even have the front end done by then. lol

I'm in!! Although I make myself ineligible for prizes :p

Seems like yesterday that we had last year's MOTY contest. Good luck to all!

Well one serious question that(I think)that isn't covered in the topic...

If someone's entry/model has a progress thread before(or finished pics...which is worse)not only he gets more than 1 pics but also people knows who made the model they vote...So what about that???Doesn't that person has a big advantage???

Ahh this will be sweet hopefully ill have a car to enter :grinno:

Man! I need to get back to my projects been slacking off to much.

As a "prize," I'll reserve the Feb 2004 feature of the month to the first place winner on JDMF (http://www.geocities.com/jdmf_2003). It isn't much, but something. :D Well, good luck to all!

Yep, I remember it feels like it was yesterday reading that Hawk won it.. I have a question, Can the one picture be a collage? Like one large picture of the model with smaller ones around it?

Originally Posted by Hawk312

It`s that time again already?! Unfortunately, I won`t be able to participate, or atleast build something special for this. I am looking forward to seeing what gets entered this year though, and I am sure it will be spectacular!
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I bet there were a few sighs of relief when they read that.


errr, thanks.... I think. :eek7:

Yep, I remember it feels like it was yesterday reading that Hawk won it..

It feels the same to me. I remember reading the hand-written notes I got from certain members here along with the prizes, and I still have them displayed above "Eleanor". I think that meant the most (a hint for you guys donating the prizes :iceslolan ).
Hopefully, I`ll be able to start participating here again once things get straightened out here, and maybe I will be back for 2004. :smile:

This is gonna be sweet. Maybe I can finish one of my models so I can enter.

I forget though, who won last year?

I have a major suggestion that just about everyone i've talked to agrees. I dont think we should only be able to use the af upload for the pictures. It makes the car look like shit, and for the modeler who had put in so much time for it doesn't want it to be ruined because of some shitty pictures. What do you think pman?

Camber, I kinda understand your concern,

But I think it would be unfair to have the cars uploaded from all sorts of servers , while others (including me ) will have to use the AF upload.


Best thing is one rule for all (or we should have a separate server space just to view the photo's ?)


Olivier :)

The reason i've asked the pics to be loaded from AF is so that it keeps them all the same size.
Plus for some stupid reason i cant load the pics and post them from my computer :mad: :mad: so i have to have the link for each photo from AF to copy and paste into a thread

Alright I understand what you mean.. Whatever you want to do, since your the person who's taking the most time to organize this :biggrin:

The reason i've asked the pics to be loaded from AF is so that it keeps them all the same size.
Plus for some stupid reason i cant load the pics and post them from my computer :mad: :mad: so i have to have the link for each photo from AF to copy and paste into a thread

Well maybe you can ask everyone to please make there images to a certain size _ x _ and please be sure it works for AF, because alot of people on here have trouble uploading from here, and the pics get fuzzy.

Heres a list of people that a willing to add a prize....thankyou

Myself...kit
Chris....SAS Kit for a model
Antonio....Bit and pieces
Steve....Also a kit
Jimbob....A custom paint mix
Deedlit.....Resin subs and amp
Honoturtle....2004 Feb feature on JDMF of winning model

Looking forward to see Year contest again and to be part of it!

count me in i am a lil late but hey i might get it done in time.... i have a question tho can i enter a pickup truck???

better get my gears goin again and finish my evo6 on time for this one :)

Nice idea!
Hope i will be fast enough to join the contest :sleeping:

Heres a list of people that a willing to add a prize....thankyou

Myself...kit
Chris....SAS Kit for a model
Antonio....Bit and pieces
Steve....Also a kit
Jimbob....A custom paint mix
Deedlit.....Resin subs and amp
Honoturtle....2004 Feb feature on JDMF of winning model

The "Steve....Also a kit" being me

we know hiro ;)

me didn't ;-)

Can't work on any models at the moment due to the winter, so my entry is in my sig. :rolleyes: Too bad.

I don't think I could be bothered to make a model within a month to enter it. I'll wait until next year, I know exactly what I will build too..

I don't think I could be bothered to make a model within a month to enter it. I'll wait until next year, I know exactly what I will build too..
Yeah, I don't think my R30 GTS will be done in time for it, maybe next year, I'll have my AE 86 started in January and I'll enter that for sure.

Alright! I am trying to get my arse in gear for this one. I missed last year, so I am working on something special for this. Good luck to all entrants.

I have a question; The picture I took of my name with my car, when uploaded on AF is too blurry to read. Does that photo have to be from AF? can someone help me with hosting it somewhere else in that case?

P-man...quick question.. How many entries have you recieved and when will pictures be posted?

this is going to be awesome!

one thing though. one GOOD shot of the model... well if its a curb-side kit no problem. What about engine detail? Any suggestion for models being submitted with engine detail? Its very hard to capture detail in the engine bay while getting a good shot of the lines of the car at the same time! Those models with engine detail would be sacrificing some of the details on the exterior to get that shot where a curb-side kit would have an advantage. :dunno:
The rules are the rules, just wanted to hear your say on this.

and thanks to those that have put the time money and effort into making this possible! :D

P-man...quick question.. How many entries have you recieved and when will pictures be posted?
At the moment i have 20 entries.
Photos will be posted on the 1st Januaruy 2004
blueboost Some are doing several pics of there model into one using photshop?

blueboost Some are doing several pics of there model into one using photshop?

gotcha. someone asked before about doing that, I didn't see an answer so I started to wonder.

Well one serious question that(I think)that isn't covered in the topic...

If someone's entry/model has a progress thread before(or finished pics...which is worse)not only he gets more than 1 pics but also people knows who made the model they vote...So what about that???Doesn't that person has a big advantage???

pman you haven't answered this question and I'm also interested.
Should we make a new model for the contest or can we use a model which is already posted in older thread? (built in 2003 ofcource)

Thanx!

You can use a model from a older thread that has already been built.
If you do happen to finish a model in December and post a thread with finished pics i guess it will give you a advantage.(if there is a entry left open)
There's nothing stopping you dragging up your thread from the year if you wish

Further to that line of questioning. Will links to progress/completed threads be allowed on the contest page?

At the moment i have 20 entries.
Photos will be posted on the 1st Januaruy 2004
blueboost Some are doing several pics of there model into one using photshop?


Are you still at 20?! or are all the spots taken? :smile:

At present there are only 22 entries

You can use a model from a older thread that has already been built.
If you do happen to finish a model in December and post a thread with finished pics i guess it will give you a advantage.(if there is a entry left open)
There's nothing stopping you dragging up your thread from the year if you wish

pfieuw if I make it I want to entry with my in-progress rx-7

pfieuw if I make it I want to entry with my in-progress rx-7
The model has to be completed, it can't be in-progress. It has to be done. If you happen to finish the RX7 before all the spots are taken, you can enter it.

Hello!

For P-Man, one question

I wanted compete with my 206 Redvolution, but by difficulties with the language not left all clear one...

I also send to you one image only of the model and an image with a paper that puts "AutomotiveForums" and my nickname, that's all right??

It tell me if it is right or no, and if it fails or it lacks something...


I hope that they understand to me well, excuse for my English...

A greeting and thousand thanks

Hey P Man! i got me a little scratch in the head... (question)
i'm re-builting my rx7 and i'm wondering if i can enter that if ever i get to finish it by the due date? My rx 7 was built this august and i'm kinda unsatisfied so i'm rebuilding it :) So is that okey dokey?

Oh Ang Merry Christmas Fella Modelerz!

Just got my model finished today for the contest. Merry X-Mas to everyone!!!

Not long to go now.
Still have 12 places to fill up yet, so if you want to be in you had better be quick.