Braille Scale Monthly Competition Rules and Systems
Updated 9th of November, 2008Rules
1. The contest is open to all military vehicles in 1/72nd scale or smaller with tracks and/or wheels with or without figures.
2. Entries for a given month are open from the 1st and close on the 15th of that month.
3. Each model may only be entered once and cannot be re-entered in subsequent monthly competitions.
4. Models must have been completed in the 2 months prior to the competition.
5. Each modeller can only enter 1 model in any one month.
6. A minimum of 5 entrants each month are required - less than this and the competition will not be held that month and the entries carried over to the next month.
7. 5 or more photos must be submitted, one of which must be before painting (some parts can have been pre-painted). The photos must contain views of all sides of the model.
8. No 'photoshoping' is allowed with the following exceptions: brightness & contrast, cropping, minor colour correction and sharpening.
9. Photos must be in the jpeg format and between 700-800 pixels on their longest side, images smaller than this will be rejected. Larger images will be resized.
10. Photos must be greater than 65kb in size, images smaller than this will be rejected. Images larger than 110Kb will be resized.
11. The main subject (not including ground work) must occupy 40% or more of the image.
12. Backgrounds should be kept as plain as possible. No elaborate/confusing/complex backgrounds or additional text such as entrant names will be accepted. (no models on workbenches)
13. All texts on a submitted gallery must be in English, the title excluded. If the title is not in English, it is advisable to write a short explanation/translation in English in the description.
14. A brief description of the, vehicle, the year and season (winter, summer), it's theatre of operations, kit manufacturer, paints used, and any extras added/changes made must be included.
15. Models must represent an authentic vehicle for the appropriate time period. A model painted in appropriate colours and markings for the vehicle's details and time period may be authentic but not 100% accurate and this is acceptable. Therefore a tiger II depicted in Deutsch Africa Corp colours is not acceptable.
16. Models will be judged on the quality of the work the modeler has done against the maximum potential of that model (after any modifications the model has received).
17. Figures and bases can be included but are not judged and do not add/subtract from the models final score unless that months competition has theme requiring these components ie. figures, dioramas or vignette's etc.
18. Judges will make constructive comments on all models entered and these comments will be available for all contestants and the general public to view.
19. Entries will be kept anonymous until after judging when at that time the builders name, judges comments and any prizes awarded will become viewable.
20. All award winning models will be placed in the public gallery.
21. All prize winners will be notified by email, it is not the organizers responsibility if notification emails are sent to the wrong address, lost, deleted or filtered out by junk mail filters.
22. All judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
23. If any modeller is deemed to have broken the rules in any way then the model will be withdrawn from competition and the modeller will be notified via email.
24. The competition organizer reserve the right to withdraw any entry or delete any photo deemed inappropriate.
25. A judge cannot judge his own models
26. By entering the competition the entrant has agreed to the rules governing the competition.
27. The committee governing the competition has the right to change, delete or add to the rules of the competition from time to time and notification of these and any other changes will only be made via the competition website. It is up to the entrant to read and understand the rules before entering the competition.
28. By participating in the competition, the user permits their photos to be used by the BSMC team for promotional and training purposes. Their use will be strictly limited to the BSMC website.
Definitions.
Out Of The Box (OOTB): For the rules of this competition OOTB will be deemed to mean the model will have been constructed with and only with the parts contained within one single model kit box with the following exceptions: paint scheme and markings of the builders choice, drilling holes (hollowing out gun barrels, drilling DML T-34 wheels, opening exhausts etc.), cutting grooves, thinning parts, replacement of lost/broken parts, placing kit parts in alternate positions, stowage and figures.
