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| Subject: | My US$0.02, before inflation.. |  |
| Date: | Jul 20, 2002 |
| From: | Mike D | |
Ok so I've gotten over it,
mostly..
I'll admit I am an AMS-er on certain subjects and an OOTB slammer on others. This year, I had a goal, AMPS Intermediate Gold on the first try.
I missed by one point.
At the time I was quite disappointed, and still feel a bit perturbed at the 'artistic weathering vs accurization' leanings of the AMPS scoring.
I went to town on a Tamiya Panther G, aftermarket dodads and sytrene add-ons, I poured over references, I looked at Aberdeen pics, I built cleanly, I painted well, I documented the work in progress with an illustrated 'brag-page', and I displayed my kit on a plain base intending to highlight the work on the kit, not the muddy countryside it drove through to get there.
My judges comments were almost universally "more weathering".
I know that they were busy, I know that I can/should volunteer to judge to see from the inside (travel and lodging this trip got in the way of that. Next year.), I agree a tough job was overall well done by a small group of people, and I appreciate the AMPS system of judging much more than 'the 1,2,3 and the rest of you are losers' style.
BUT, from my standpoint this year, the scoring leaned heavily toward muddy=good and not muddy=less good
A friend from Canada attended his first AMPS and brought some converted/scratchbuit engineering vehicles that he had in-operations pictures of from his tour in Kosovo and was also dinged for innaccurate weathering.
I wont go in any farther, he can tell his own story.
Back to the orig. post and missing return rollers, a 'superdetailed Panther with scratchbuilt interior' diorama was about to win first place diorama in a local IPMS show. Until I commented to a friend, and was overheard by a judge ( NOT my intention by the way) that is was a beautiful job on the Panther, too bad he forgot to add the transmission.
Judges cannot intimately know every subject, but the artistic finish/muddy=good bias pendulumn has swung too far.
Don't get me started on rusty, scratched-up, faded-paint late war German armor..
Vent mode off..
Mike |
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 | Where is the Good? - Pete Gay - Jul 19, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Where is the Good? - Ed Kusiak - Jul 18, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Where is the Good? - Steve Frost - Jul 18, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Where is the Good? - Kurt Laughlin - Jul 19, 2002 |
| . . . . . . My US$0.02, before inflation.. - Mike D - Jul 20, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: My US$0.02, before inflation.. - Paul Roberts - Jul 20, 2002 |
| . . . Perspective and Equilibrium - Tim Streeter - Jul 19, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Perspective and Equilibrium - Warrink - Jul 19, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Perspective and Equilibrium - Ken Schofield - Jul 21, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Perspective and Equilibrium - Saul Garcia - Jul 21, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Perspective and Equilibrium - Andy Herbert - Jul 21, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Perspective and Equilibrium - Andy Herbert - Jul 21, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Perspective and Equilibrium - Paul Roberts - Jul 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Perspective and Equilibrium - Andy Herbert - Jul 22, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Perspective and Equilibrium - Paul Roberts - Jul 22, 2002 |
| . . . Sorry - Peter Gay - Jul 19, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Sorry - Andy Herbert - Jul 19, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Sorry - Tim Streeter - Jul 19, 2002 |
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