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Originally Posted by modelperry
2. Continue to take things to work on and new acquisitions to my IPMS club meetings...
4. (This is the most important one) Continue to participate in IPMS contests and conventions. This past year I have entered three IPMS contests in my area and have first and second place awards to prove it. Right now the contests I've entered have me place my entries in the miscellaneous categories because of the medium used. I would love to have some competition with other paper modelers at these events, even though it's nice to beat the plastic builders!  I am always well received and get at least one or two people coming up to me to make positive comments on the items I've entered.
Greg
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Greg, I for one will take your advices. I will definitively make an article of Paper Modeling at my
local chapter newsletter (El Paso, Texas). Right now almost each month a paper model of mine appears on it. But now an article on how I did it is needed. Because the thing is that - my impression here - plastic modelers get the final picture and they judge that... not the process. Don't get me wrong, I admire what a good modeler can do to a piece of plastic. In the local contest, they told me that judges will see that I didn't picked the camo, I didn't close the gaps on each section with putty or other, I didn't use such and such paint, I didn't give the extra metal shinning, or weathering, and the like. So being the sole paper modeler in the club, is not easy to enter in a contest. So the effort will be on how I made the model.
03-05-2009, 05:53 PM
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