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MikeC
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 Posted - 05/15/2003 : 10:44:45 AM
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Since there is apparently no clear-cut consensus on the next group project, here is a "finescale" challenge that might interest some as an alternative.
1. Choose any kit, in any scale and/or gauge, which is not normally considered to be "finescale" (i.e., DPM, Model Power, GGG, Dyna-Model, etc.). Or, working from plans for a model not normally considered to be "finescale" , scratchbuild your own.
2. Turn your chosen kit into a "finescale" model or diorama by using any means available to you. Let your imagination roam. Scratchbuild additions for it, kitbash it, superdetail it, weather it. Whatever it takes! Just create something that shows more than routine painting and detailing!
3. Post photos and periodic progress reports to this thread on how/what you're doing.
If you build a diorama, your "chosen" model should be the main element or focal point of the diorama.
The deadline for completion and submission of final photos is Wednesday, December 31, 2003. (That's a little over 6 months from now. Those of us who have been involved with the Foss' Landing project have been working on it for nearly 4 months, so the above deadline seems reasonable.)
Prizes and awards will be up to the discretion of those who think they have won. 
Any takers?     
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Edited by - MikeC on 05/15/2003 11:23:55 AM
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Rusty Stumps
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 10:54:05 AM
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Sounds interesting.
I feel we need to form a committee. The committee should be limited to any one that wants to be on it. The chairman should be the newest member of the RR-L Forums and he would have to relinquish his chair to whoever is the next newest member.
We need to hold a convention, any city will do and all committee members will receive total reimbursement for attending the meeting to be paid directly from each attending members own check book. This meeting should be held sometime around the conclusion of the contest at which time there will be a vote taken. What we are to vote on will be decided after all members in attendance have drunk at least six mixed drinks.
How's this sound?
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cooldavion
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 11:00:25 AM
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Originally posted by MikeC
The deadline for completion and submission of final photos is Wednesday, December 31, 2003. (That's a little over 6 months from now. Those of us who have been involved with the Foss' Landing project have been working on it for nearly 4 months, so the above deadline seems reasonable.)
Additionaly, alot of us have other things to do that take us away from this hobby (like yard work and stuff).
Personaly I'm contemplating changing scales. I was going to model HO ( I've bought a few vehicals and a couple of building kits, but have not put them together yet), but now I might be going with N scale to fit the space I will have advailable (shelf layout) and get what I want (long trains running around and around). Maybe "baptism by fire" in a new scale will help motivate me.
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Bbags
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 11:15:38 AM
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Hi Mike
I think that you have hit on a great idea. 
Here in Clinton there is a warehouse which is probably about 100 years old and sits right next to the railroad track.
It it now being used as a swimming pool distributor but I drive past it almost every day and keep saying to myself that with a few pictures and some measurements I would love to scratch build it.
I figure that if I said I was interested in having them install an in ground pool that they would let me take some pictures.
Maybe this contest will get me off my butt to get started.
I assume this would qualify since I will be drawing my own plans and will have to kitbash out some of the newer additions to the building.
Rusty I am lost would you please form a committee to go over what you just proposed. 
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Rusty Stumps
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 11:48:16 AM
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Originally posted by Bbags
[Rusty I am lost would you please form a committee to go over what you just proposed.
John, One of the great things about RR-L is it's lack of organization. Oh I reallize there needs to be ground rules but I don't like upper management and the politics that goes with it. SO this was my tounge in cheek approach to that attitude.
Form a disorganized committee to oversee a good project! See a well orgainze committee could actually screwup a good idea. This way before they get orgainzed the project is complete! RIGHT?
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Hangem Harry
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 11:55:14 AM
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I'm in, but I don't want to be on any stinking committees, I'm on enough of them at work now!!!
Harry
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Bbags
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 11:55:18 AM
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Form a disorganized committee to oversee a good project! See a well orgainze committee could actually screwup a good idea. This way before they get orgainzed the project is complete! RIGHT?
Sounds like my place of employment.
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Rusty Stumps
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 12:14:10 PM
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Originally posted by Hangem Harry
I'm in, but I don't want to be on any stinking committees, I'm on enough of them at work now!!!
Harry
But Harry, our committee will only be organized to have parties and drinking. We won't get involved in directing anything or anyone, except the waitress on where to set the drinks!    
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Hangem Harry
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 12:55:43 PM
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Originally posted by Rusty Stumps
But Harry, our committee will only be organized to have parties and drinking. We won't get involved in directing anything or anyone, except the waitress on where to set the drinks!
Sounds just like work too
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MikeB
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 12:59:39 PM
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well orgainze(d) committee
Isn't this an oxymoron?
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Rusty Stumps
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 1:25:02 PM
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Maybe the COMMITTEE should vote to get back to MikeC's original post? This is heading way down the wrong track.
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MikeC
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 1:36:14 PM
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Originally posted by Rusty Stumps
Maybe the COMMITTEE should vote to get back to MikeC's original post? This is heading way down the wrong track.
I agree! Let's save this thread for actual model building discussions, please. Thanks 
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paulbrockatsf
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 2:21:17 PM
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Mike,
I’ll have to think about your challenge. Off the top of my head, I don’t think it is something I would want to participate in at this time. It is a good idea & I’m sure it will be a lot of fun, but for now I need to build some kits that I have already bought or ordered. I would rather build one of the kits in the poll.
I will be gone overseas for a couple of months, which will cut into my modeling time. That would only leave me about 4 months for the challenge. I may use the time you guys are doing the challenge to finish my Foss’ Landing. I can also build the SW Woodcutters Shack during that time. It is a smaller kit & shouldn’t take that long. I also want to finish the Backwoods Work Train & a SRMW kit I am working on. In other words, I’ll have plenty to do. I should be caught up by the end of the year when you want to start something new.
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NickO
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 5:08:28 PM
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Hi All,
If I might add my two pence worth(we don't have any sense,or is that cents,in the UK),as a contestant to a previous forum competition.
Firstly,no committee;make it a dictatorship with one person running the show.If we don't like his rules just topple him and chose another dictator.
Secondly,don't make it a competition.Carry on as you are,an informal discussion group.No prizes.
Actually,I've thinking for some time that a true test of a modeller's ability is what he/she can do with a run of the mill plastic kit.Most people can make a reasonable job on a craftsman kit if they just follow the instructions,but to make something worthwhile out of a plastic kit takes a bit extra.To see if I have got it,I have a couple of DPM kits sitting in the cupboard waiting for such an occasion.
You can expect a reasonable initial response,but interest will probably tail off.
And finally,you can set the deadline for 6 days,6 weeks,6 months or 6 years but I know I will be up half the night before the last day trying to get it finished!
I'd still prefer to have a go at one of the SW kits,if it has arrived before the deadline expires,or me.
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MikeC
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 8:17:15 PM
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Paul and Nick,
I'll reply to each of you in this one post.
Paul, I'm not sure that I'm going to participate in the challenge either and for many of the same reasons as you've outlined. I have several partially completed projects - including my SW Tractor Repair Shed and two SRMW structures - sitting on the shelves in my basement. I need to get at least a couple of them completed. I also want to get started on my module and get the Foss' diorama "planted."
However, I put the challenge out there as an alternative to another group project. My thinking was that it might appeal to those who can't (or do not want to) participate in a group project. At the same time, there is nothing to stop 2 or 3 or 4 of us from going ahead with RRC or one of the other models, if we choose.
Nick, there will be no committee, and I can promise you that as of right now there will be no competition. As His Most August Benevolency, I won't allow it. Of course, I may purchase a large quantity of Rusty's casting rejects and bestow them upon those modelers whose efforts I deem most worthy of such a grandiose prize....
The "challenge" is something that has been on my mind for several years now. Except I never saw it in the context of a forum or group before now. It was just something I saw myself trying - if I could stop buying kits long enough to give the concept a try.
So, whether we take up the challenge, work on a group project, or go it alone for a few months, the important thing is that we have fun with whatever we're doing and know that we have the support of the whole group here.
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Tyson Rayles
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Posted - 05/15/2003 : 9:25:34 PM
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Mike I am just starting a project. I'm going to try to turn a n-scale Life-Like SW9/1200 into a standard gauge Climax. Would that qualify for this???
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