future contest ideas??!!??

I am sitting here thimking of what type of contest to have next. This 1 is finally over and i feel was very rushed! This doesnt have to start soon but just get some ideas from you the people.

MY IDEA/SUGGESTION- I would like to have a replica contest. Something like the custom car contest but to replicate your favorite car/truck. Weather it is a car or truck, race car or a 4wd truck. it doesnt matter. Post pictures of the vehicle you would like to replicate and then begin progress. This should be a great idea for everyone. To sweeten the pot i propose a 6 month building time from whenever the contest starts! ialso keep it to 1/24 or 1/25 scale cars only!


Let me know your thought on this and any ideas you the people of AF have!

Thanks, Matt(customminatures)

a longer build time gives the more inexperienced builders time to figure things out!

i think that is a very cool idea, but i think if there was a new contest it should vear away from imports (eg. honda, nissan, toyota ext...). yes your idea whould alow it to vear from import cars, but 90% of all members here on af love imports. and your contest whould end up filled with drift cars, not that it whould be a bad thing but imports are kinda getting dull to look at, everday i come to af hopeing to see somthing new and exiteing, but i am let down, all i am seeing is the same model built.

Great idea Matt! I would enter a Hot Rod. Maybe a mini me of my big Hot Rod project.

maybe that isnt such a good topic! its nothing different that what most everyone does on here anyway, accept it would be judged! Let me here some of your ideas!

This is my idea, and what I was planning for the next contest.

I call it the Custom Rod Design Contest [CRDC Pronounced as its spelled as well as Sirdeck (CRDeC)]. This contest is where you design your own hot rod and build it. Basically a custom hot/street rod contest. Such as modifying a '32 Ford into a Boydster, but the design should be your own original design.

Like I said, thats my idea, and Im going to initiate it soon, or we can possibly go into it together Matt.

sounds damn good mike! let us know.

any other ideas?

sounds damn good mike! let us know.

any other ideas?

Why do you need other ideas. Mines perfect and thats the way it shall be. :iceslolan

lol u r funny!!! either way needs to be a long build time to give inexperienced people a chance!

or maybe the Monster Garage idea would be cool!

or maybe the Monster Garage idea would be cool!

I would be scared to see the monsters. But how would they be functional. Should the contests be more show than fucntionality?

I think an ultimate sleeper contest would be bitchin.
You know, build a car with basically stock appearance but a huge high performance engine in it. Might be hard for all the curbside builders though.

I think an ultimate sleeper contest would be bitchin.
You know, build a car with basically stock appearance but a huge high performance engine in it. Might be hard for all the curbside builders though.

Yea, that would be hard.

Matt and I have been talking about my idea and I think were going to give it a go. Im going to type up the thread with some guidelines now.

Why not do a truck contest? :smile: There are many trucks and SUV kits available but no one here really builds them. I am about to start a tractor trailer project with a car hauler trailer. :smile:

i liked the replica idea, anything goes, so more people could be able to participate (not everyones in to imports, trucks, or hotrods) so IMO everything should be able to enter

I'm in for the sleeper concept. I've had the ultimate sleeper in mind for a full detailed project for some time and that could make me get off my duff and build that stealth-type whiskey tanker I've been planning for so long. Let's do it

Dunno if this might interest you guys, but I think it would be really cool to have a contest of older cars, let s say at least 20 years old, that way we ll have a break of all those new an dmodern imports we see all day long here , and we ll see muscle cars, vintage, classic and race cars around here, also rods would qualify.

dunno it s just a suggestion, take it or leave it.

Olivier

I agree with bigfrit! :biggrin:

:screwy:... Why not making a contest for old kits too? (I've found a 1979 Heller kit of the Citroën Traction 15-6 that would suit both propositions...)

:screwy:... Or just the simple but always efficient idea to make a 1-kit contest: same kit for everybody, free to add changes, from light mods to heavy ones... Base kit should be affordable by everyone, something like the Revell New Mini (very challenging to make it look good!), or the Tamiya 350Z (that would make the AF Custom Model Car...)

:screwy:... Or a contest of free designed racing paint scheme, based on the same kit too, for example a Tamiya Porsche 962C (affordable, easy to find and to build) or a Fujimi racing R32...

:screwy:... Or just a Lamborghini contest? ( ;) Urraco75...)

:screwy:... Or something like a "I make my Tamiya Porsche 911 fly", in a very S-F spirit...

:screwy:... Or a "Lambo-doors" contest: base kit free, just needs to be modified to have a lambo-way-of-opening doors... (may be extended to gullwind and suicide doors). This theme seems to be quite popular on this forum...

:screwy:... Or a "I make my Enzo look decent" contest: who would best re-design this car in order to make it loveable? ( :lol: ) Revell and Tamiya accepted - time limit in this case could be up to 1 year...

:screwy:... Or a Lancia Rally racers Contest: we would see kits from Stratos to 037 and various Delta... Maybe could be a "in-action" contest (drivers figures included, diorama...).

:screwy:... Or, for the forthcoming months: a Murcielago vs Carrera GT Contest... Or a full carbonised chassis contest (Carrera & Enzo)... Or...

Stop for today! :p:loser: Your turn, now! :icon16:

well damn talk about some ideas! what ever it is ide lie it to be something with a GIANT turn out. not 6 or 7 builders, i waould like to see some numbers. but if we have number of people we will need big prizes! dont u think?

:screwy: A supercar contest = only cars on supercars.net can enter it !

:screwy: A colour contest= you all have to use the same colour for the body

:screwy: A contest where you have to use the most putty on ! -oh, no, that has been done just now, forget that thought-

Hehe :smokin:

If I come up with more twisted ideas, I ll post them here - Labandabonnot , your turn!!! :naughty: -

Oli

This is my idea that came to me in the sleepy time hours! Any car goes but u have to design a concept car from it with as lilttle or gobs of detail involved!? i like most of these ides but would like to try to sway away from the usual af build of a racey street car.

News flash------------everyone here is familiar with SEMA correct? Letrs have a model SEMA contest! could apply to every single idea posted in this and mikes thread! yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaa i like that idea the most......LOL!!!

SEMA contest would include everything from concept cars, super rod cars, trucks, imports, everything! I know SEMA is a produst show but people take that chance to show off there new custom ideas that turn eventuall into the fad of the year! Could even build a DISPLAY like its on display at the show!?

pretty much everything with wheels! Bkes(choppers) are accepted too!

I m kinda against that one.

Why do we have to be forced to build customs?
dont you see enough of those on the boards?

there seem to be no place for an accurate representation of an actual car albeit stock or custom in this idea...

try to think as broad as you can , everybody has got the right to enter, no matter what kind of level of modeling they re in, and you seem to want to do an elite modelers only comp, which will nonetheless give us maybe a few very special models, but most modelers will only be able to watch and vote...

I think participating is still more important then winning in these matters.

Olivier

all i am looking for is MASSIVE TURN OUT!!!! cmon people of AF unit, take the challenge. Join the contest whatever it is we all decide on

i want the topic to be open to everyone that why we are discussing it now! LOL

i just dont want a contest with tons of box stock builds

Keep in mind a true to life model contest doesnt necessarely means a box stock build ... many of the modelers here do magic on crappy kits.

Although there can be made very nice cars too if you just build box stock.

it s all about talent and experience, for me a well built box stock model is way better then a huge pile of putty badly sanded build up.

Olivier

Why do we have to be forced to build customs?
Because of this:
i just dont want a contest with tons of box stock builds



dont you see enough of those on the boards?


No. Thats why we want a custom contest.

from what i see on this board is alot of (IMO) stock style race street cars! IMO thats not custom< but the board is very world wide and custom in the UK might be very different from custom in the US. That is why iwas suggesting a SEMA type based contest! SEMA is what every car custom car builder would like to see there creation end up!

So all in all oi suppose a general contest would be a way to go! Seeing that every country in the world gives a different spin to the word custom!


Lets keep floating around some more ideas. I think we might be getting close to something! We do need something that will accept everything from regular cars to the ultimate custom! This does need to be very wide ranged to get as many entries as possible! I would like to see this end up being one of the biggest contests AF have ever seen!

i think the idea of everyone building the same kit would be fun, then you can really see the difference in styles and builds

i think the idea of everyone building the same kit would be fun, then you can really see the difference in styles and builds

Me and my tow friends was supose to dis last year... ut wo tok wrong car and the contest did not take place.

from what i see on this board is alot of (IMO) stock style race street cars! IMO thats not custom< but the board is very world wide and custom in the UK might be very different from custom in the US. That is why iwas suggesting a SEMA type based contest! SEMA is what every car custom car builder would like to see there creation end up!

So all in all oi suppose a general contest would be a way to go! Seeing that every country in the world gives a different spin to the word custom!


Lets keep floating around some more ideas. I think we might be getting close to something! We do need something that will accept everything from regular cars to the ultimate custom! This does need to be very wide ranged to get as many entries as possible! I would like to see this end up being one of the biggest contests AF have ever seen!

:iagree: I think Matt's idea with SEMA is probably the best bet for a turnout. So we can have multiple categories:
Audio
Engine
Import Show
Hot Rod Show

I just dont really want to see a bunch of box stock stuff, or just a load of tuners with one or two Hot Rods. I know AF is primarily imports, but cant we have a little room for us Hot Rodders?

Ok ok ok ok....

I've been thinking about a Race Winner Contest, just to see good kits well weathered, and some driver figures...

But you seem to prefer something more shinny!

... So can I propose you a "Nothing Aerodynamic Contest" where hot rods would be kings, and where european modelers and others could put their <1950 kits... (Heller Buggatti Royale, where are you all?...)... Even japanese modelers could show there their microcars, for example!... That would mean no Skyline, no sportcars, no drifting... Something really different for once!

Labandabonnot has some good ideas. The one-kit contest one is probably the best.

Ya'll have to realize, however, that besides AFMOTY you're probably going to have a low turn out. A contest that takes such specific entries is going to be, by the nature of the thing, closed to many modellers. I imagine most builders entering a contest enter with a model they were going to build anyway, that few people actually go out of their way to build a model specifically for the contest.

Labandabonnot has some good ideas. The one-kit contest one is probably the best.

Ya'll have to realize, however, that besides AFMOTY you're probably going to have a low turn out. A contest that takes such specific entries is going to be, by the nature of the thing, closed to many modellers. I imagine most builders entering a contest enter with a model they were going to build anyway, that few people actually go out of their way to build a model specifically for the contest.

Thats why Matt and I discussed it and created more categories for a SEMA like contest.

Here is the thread with the details for the SEMA like contest. (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=232471)

I like the same kit contest idea. we could vote on the kit

We should have a shitty car contest. See who can build the most beat up looking car. :iceslolan

We should have a shitty car contest. See who can build the most beat up looking car. :iceslolan

I think willimo is doing that.

I agree with willimo that the only way you are going to have a large turn out is without limiting the contest types of cars and things like that. There are too diffrent types of people with diffrent taste in cars. The reason why AFMOTY is so popular is because it is just a "model" contest with no limits on types of builds.
There have been several contests in the past that started out well but ended up sizzling out in the end. I personally like the Supercar contest, or even a Truck contest or a Bike contest. Something like that won't conflict with AFMOTY, but your entries won't be everyone just the ones who like that particular build.
You should think of a few good "themes" for contests like SEMA, Trucks, bikes, custom hotrods, super cars, muscle cars, or any of the ones mentioned in this thread. Then make a poll and leave it up for a good bit to let everyone vote for the most popular one, my vote goes for the Truck contest.

But for the time being i think we are overlooking willimo's Poser contest. I'm very excited about this contest b/c i've got a ugly P.O.S. waiting for this one.

well then what about a truck contest? there arent many trucks on this site!

I suggested that idea b/c there have been a few more trucks around here, and i like that. I think there would be a good turn out b/c there are more truck fans than you would think. Plus it can be any truck, how ever you want to build it; custom, hotrod, 4x4, bodydroped, or whatever you can think up (like the blazerado). It leaves the field open while making a unique contest.

well then what about a truck contest? there arent many trucks on this site!

I thought you wanted a large turnout. :screwy:

i think you should list all the ideas so far, and do a poll see what gets most votes

im up for a sema contest or just trucks in general :d good idea

yea, trucks ,any year any make or model! suv's?

Thought i'd give my 2 cents worth here.

IMO there are to many contest's and people just start to loose interest after a while.
If you do go ahead i'd like to see everybody build the same kit but come up with there own different style of building it

:iagree:

With so many contest going there will be no interest after a little while. All building the same kit and check out the different styles would really do it IMO. And as customminiatures said: Take some time for it, I can't build a custom car within 1 or 2 months.

I say, we all choose 1 car (Will by quiet, I'm hearing a poll coming :lol: ) and take 4 months for building it.

Really like this idea, same car-personnal style.

:1:

I m with LM2 , imagine having supermany entries all with the same car

ALthought it will have to be a car everybody more or less can relate to.

Olivier

any ideas on cars
i dont want to interfere with the AFMOTY! welcome back pman!

skylines :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: j/k.

but that is like the most popular car here on af, just if some one makes a poll dont put skyline in it, :lol: . as if you do you know what the result will be :lol:. i personaly love skylines but get a little tired of seeing them. anyway, i think it whould have to be an affordable model, it whould also have to be a model that no one is afriad to slap some putty on. if its a $30-$40 model there is now way in hell im touching it with putty :lol2: :lol:

chicken

if its a $30-$40 model there is now way in hell im touching it with putty :lol2: :lol:

So we should all do Tamiya Enzo's then. :lol:

Why not go for a run of the mill road car like a ford focus or the like, that way there are not to many 1:1 modded ones about so will lead to some origional thinking not copying movie or real life cars.
just a thought

Why not go for a run of the mill road car like a ford focus or the like, that way there are not to many 1:1 modded ones about so will lead to some origional thinking not copying movie or real life cars.
just a thought

I think that's quiet a relative thing. There are quiet a few tuners from Ford. It doesn't matter which car you take. There's always a change of copying something. But I agree it's a nice idea to take a Ford Focus. I've never seen a tuned Ford Focus on AF. So for that, I agree with you.

http://www.streetsourcemag.com/Chatroom/images/smile25.gif CARS....i say we go with the sema contest that way ricers, mini truckers, and hot rodders can do it.. the same car one is stupid because not everyone likes enzo's or civics which i know half of af is people building those.. be different for once and buy a truck kit.. just my 2c

Bill, i dont care if you post in everyone elses thread but stay out of mine!!! All you have to say is negative things about the people of af! If they like cars and not truck, so be it! You like trucks and not a whole lot of cars! So basically what you are saying is people should do exactly what you want and not have there own taste in vehicles! This is a "CAR" based forum, havent you figured that out? yet? People im sure are tired of hearing you say how imports suck and trucks are the shit! I know i am! If you cant accept that people here are into a different style of vehicle than you, then leave af! PLEASE!

Bill, i dont care if you post in everyone elses thread but stay out of mine!!! All you have to say is negative things about the people of af! If they like cars and not truck, so be it! You like trucks and not a whole lot of cars! So basically what you are saying is people should do exactly what you want and not have there own taste in vehicles! This is a "CAR" based forum, havent you figured that out? yet? People im sure are tired of hearing you say how imports suck and trucks are the shit! I know i am! If you cant accept that people here are into a different style of vehicle than you, then leave af! PLEASE!

It's supposed to be all about model building, how much effort you put forth and the skill that shows through in the finished product. I don't know anything about Le mans, F1 racing, or rally cars, but i love to see how much effort our members who build these types of cars put in to them. The same applies to mini trucks and imports, If someone builds an exact replica of a car i hate then i will appreciate the build more than the subject. You do need to lay off the smart ass comments and negative replies, It seems that you are becoming known for things like that.

werd...................

you think it pisses people off when he says model cars suck!!!! wait till he tells you you are gay cuz you drive a car. i almost hear it everyday.