Any IPMS pics yet?

[pawlie]

Havent' seen any in the usual places

[flhansen]

Hi

There are the usual shitty ones on IPMSUSA.org:

http://www.ipmsusa2.org/EventsGaller...tive/page.html

I'm completely underwhelmed by the quality. Why on earth do one place a picture like this on the web:



One thing is that it is out of focus - but the size of the thing for gods sake!? In these days that most of us browse the web on 19 inch flats and larger it will just about fill out the top left corner of the screen...

Have they been captured with a mobile phone? Come on and do better!



And no I'm not there so I can't rectify the situation, but hoping that someone somewhere takes some decent shots with a proper camera.

Flemming

[pawlie]

Thanks for the photos.

You'd think with that many nerds in one place someone would have a decent camera

[jmesawitz]

The quality of the photot's very dissapointing. I do not think that you can blame the camera or photographer. No matter how good the equipment or resolution of the pic, all submissions are scaled down to 640 x 480. At our last IPMS event we set up a photo booth with a clean background and as good a camera/lighting as you would want. Our pics were beautiful, hi-res, 4280x2840. After posting to the IPMS Usa site they were reduced to crap.

[flhansen]

Hi

Finally some proper pictures. Enjoy:
http://www.scaleautosport.com/tx/ipms08/

Best regards

Flemming

[lumpulus]

Here's a link to who won what.

Wait till you see what won Best Auto....


http://svsm.org/gallery/IPMSNats2008-Winners

[flhansen]

Originally Posted by lumpulus

Wait till you see what won Best Auto....

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OMG... :-(

I guess the judges were military biased... Weren't there a decent finished paintwork in sight??? It has a nice finish - but BEST auto?

Flemming

[Big Kahuna]

Originally Posted by lumpulus

Here's a link to who won what.

Wait till you see what won Best Auto....


http://svsm.org/gallery/IPMSNats2008-Winners

I like the X-15

[Big Kahuna]

Originally Posted by flhansen

OMG... :-(

I guess the judges were military biased... Weren't there a decent finished paintwork in sight??? It has a nice finish - but BEST auto?

Flemming

Flemming.
I am blind. Can you copy the link for the Best Auto Model so I can laugh too?...

I have heard that IPMS is primarily Military Modelling based.

[flhansen]

Originally Posted by Big Kahuna

Flemming.
I am blind. Can you copy the link for the Best Auto Model so I can laugh too?...

I have heard that IPMS is primarily Military Modelling based.

It is on page 27 top left corner. It is a great model, but a decent gloss finish is always in my eyes a much harder acomplishment than this. I wasn't there so I can't comment on other entries. But I wonder why a model can be judged 'Best auto' when it only placed third in its class ( 539 )?

This one:



Flemming

[lumpulus]

No Flemming, it won 1st in it's class....they do it backwards in that slideshow...

As you said, it's a great model of the truck from the old "Beverley Hillbillies" tv show, but there were so many more deserving(IMHO) models there.

[Big Kahuna]

Blech.

I liked the X-15 the best!

[flhansen]

Originally Posted by lumpulus

No Flemming, it won 1st in it's class....they do it backwards in that slideshow...

Ehhh what??? You mean that the model that wins get a 3 in the file name - no. 2 gets a 2 (hoooray!) and no. 3 gets 1..? I doubt that - sorry. Look at category 600. The "winner" (picture no.3) should then be a 1:144 tiny rocket and no. 3 (picture no. 1) should be a fully detailed big 1:12 Mercury capsule with a lavish presentation. Even with blind judges that can't be correct!

Flemming

[jano11]

Nice models, but poor judges.

[pawlie]

That's really poor judging, so many more deserving models out there.