My club, here in the states, is putting on their first show next October. We already started practice judging groups to be better prepared. I’m new to the hobby (3 years) and judging terrifies me. We are doing gold, silver, bronze. I like your art show vs. sporting event comparison. I know you don’t build models for medals but congratulations none the less. Love the channel and the great content. Cheers from Maryland, Paul.
Congrats on the hardware. I can certainly see the value in being part of the judging for sure. It can really help you understand what judges are looking for. Glad you had a good show and experience with it all.
Thanks Jim, yeah it opened my eyes on how to really push a model to a better level, was very liberating, not a bad experience at all in pointing out flaws, but also how well things were done!
I look forward to going to QMHE next year. At this stage I'm not rostered to work like I was this year. But a year is a long time. Eric is truly an awesome modeller. I always look forward to picking up orders from his shop
Chris I'm really enjoying this extra curricular approach you are taking here, looking beyond the build story and reveal thang, refreshing, totally refreshing. Well done on the medals and the invitation to judge, slainte - accompanied by a Laphroaig 10'year at this end of the planet. Dave.
Congrats on the awards! Very well-deserved! With the accessibility of technology today it seems obvious that larger regional/national shows should empower their judging teams with devices to allow them to enter scores and comments for the models they’re judging… assigning a numeric score and a quick comment to each of the criteria on which models are being judged would allow for feedback to entrants, provide consistency across a category, and speed up the tabulation of competition results. I judged at the Nats in Omaha (as an OJT judge) and learned a lot, but the sheer number of kits to be judged in some categories forced us to triage entrants based on obvious flaws just to get the numbers down to a manageable level.
Chris, we've all been anxiously waiting for this video, congratulations on 5 gold, have yourself a bit of Drambuie to celebrate. Tremendous creativity and variety. The figures were amazing. You're turret girl looked great as well. That's quite a lot of detail to judge over that many entries, I can see it would take several sets of eyes to examine each build. Everything was so well detail , were there any kits just built out of the box, clean with just color and decals, no weathering, etc? I could never approach that level of skill unless they had a newbie category for retired blokes. Thanks for capturing all that you did, truly amazing talent there. Oh, the AIRFUX shirt was epic, ya had to look twice :-)
Thank you for the insight and your enthusiam for the matter is showing through a lot, i love that! I have no previous experience as a judge, but i might gather some later this year if all goes well. The best system i have encountered so far was in France, after the award ceremony they handed out the spreadsheets with all the notes of the judges on there, so it was transparent and you could see what impressed the judges and what did not impress them. This way you can actually improve yourself, other than just guessing why your model placed as it did. I wonder why this is not common practise?!
Thanks Michael, great idea on spreadsheet I'd like to incorporate that because it wouldn't take much time to add notes, even just one or two points, and all competitors could see what was faulted and admired...
Yes I'd like to hear about armour too, slightly different things to pick up. For example we didn't count rivets in the aircraft category so not sure how deep they go on accuracy?
Thanks for this and oddly the European way is how the American Cub Scouts treated the Pine Wood Derby which I won Creativity every year when I was a cub Scot in the late '90s and '00s. Till they spilt the category and did not tell anyone and that resulted in me getting a participation trophy which I have never felt good about. Also I would love a video going over your entrees and how they did(Or why you think they did the way they did)!
Less categories, open medal chances is far superior in awarding talent than lots of little categories and only 1/2/3 placings. The latter is participation trophies and allows for gaming entries to hunt for medals...
That was interesting…………feedback is essential I wouldn’t enter a competition that didn’t offer feedback as if I don’t learn from the judging well what’s the point? How do I prepare for next year if I don’t know why I failed to medal this year? So congrats on the feedback you gave the teens. Of course B I G congratulations on your medals it must have been a real buzz!! One question: how could a model you completed three years ago medal? Is there no growth in either the show or your modelling? Bob England
Thanks for sharing such valuable info mate. You have helped me to understand how the judging process works, however I agree with you, on how they should be judged like EU. By, the way, ya models look stunning mate.
I don't enter modelling shows for 1 reason, that being I don't really care what another person thinks of my work, so long as I'm happy with the end result then all is good.
We're all different, I have a modelling friend who could win Gold in the ship categories everytime if he entered, but he doesnt care what others think of his work....
Congratulations on winning. I can really see how judging a contest would improve your quality as a builder. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Michael!
My club, here in the states, is putting on their first show next October. We already started practice judging groups to be better prepared. I’m new to the hobby (3 years) and judging terrifies me. We are doing gold, silver, bronze. I like your art show vs. sporting event comparison. I know you don’t build models for medals but congratulations none the less. Love the channel and the great content. Cheers from Maryland, Paul.
Thanks Paul and good luck with judging, sounds like you're on the right track
great to hear the young ones getting encouragement for their work...great hobby to get involved in....congrats on the awards
Thanks Lappin, yep the young chaps were very keen and creative!
Congrats on the hardware. I can certainly see the value in being part of the judging for sure. It can really help you understand what judges are looking for. Glad you had a good show and experience with it all.
Thanks Jim, yeah it opened my eyes on how to really push a model to a better level, was very liberating, not a bad experience at all in pointing out flaws, but also how well things were done!
Congrats on the awards! Thanks for sharing. It was interesting seeing how you judge and that you took the time to talk to young modellers! 😎🇨🇦
Gotta keep them enthused! The gold entry in intermediate would have placed in the open category, it was that good!
I look forward to going to QMHE next year. At this stage I'm not rostered to work like I was this year. But a year is a long time. Eric is truly an awesome modeller. I always look forward to picking up orders from his shop
Hope to see you there Brodie! Eric's shop was bursting, I bought a few things, he's doing quite well.
Chris I'm really enjoying this extra curricular approach you are taking here, looking beyond the build story and reveal thang, refreshing, totally refreshing. Well done on the medals and the invitation to judge, slainte - accompanied by a Laphroaig 10'year at this end of the planet. Dave.
Thanks Dave, I'm hoping I'm on the right track with these talkfests...
@@beckersmodels absolutely, keep em coming Mr Becker. By the way well done for getting Harry interested in Tangerines!
Congrats on the awards! Very well-deserved!
With the accessibility of technology today it seems obvious that larger regional/national shows should empower their judging teams with devices to allow them to enter scores and comments for the models they’re judging… assigning a numeric score and a quick comment to each of the criteria on which models are being judged would allow for feedback to entrants, provide consistency across a category, and speed up the tabulation of competition results.
I judged at the Nats in Omaha (as an OJT judge) and learned a lot, but the sheer number of kits to be judged in some categories forced us to triage entrants based on obvious flaws just to get the numbers down to a manageable level.
Thanks Bruce and I totally agree, technology can help tremendous here, and making fewer categories too. Cheers Chris
Great video Chris very interesting and well done - amazing result for your entries
Thanks Liam!
Chris, we've all been anxiously waiting for this video, congratulations on 5 gold, have yourself a bit of Drambuie to celebrate. Tremendous creativity and variety. The figures were amazing. You're turret girl looked great as well. That's quite a lot of detail to judge over that many entries, I can see it would take several sets of eyes to examine each build. Everything was so well detail , were there any kits just built out of the box, clean with just color and decals, no weathering, etc? I could never approach that level of skill unless they had a newbie category for retired blokes. Thanks for capturing all that you did, truly amazing talent there. Oh, the AIRFUX shirt was epic, ya had to look twice :-)
Thank you for the insight and your enthusiam for the matter is showing through a lot, i love that!
I have no previous experience as a judge, but i might gather some later this year if all goes well.
The best system i have encountered so far was in France, after the award ceremony they handed out the spreadsheets with all the notes of the judges on there, so it was transparent and you could see what impressed the judges and what did not impress them. This way you can actually improve yourself, other than just guessing why your model placed as it did. I wonder why this is not common practise?!
Thanks Michael, great idea on spreadsheet I'd like to incorporate that because it wouldn't take much time to add notes, even just one or two points, and all competitors could see what was faulted and admired...
Great insight hopefully someone will do the same for amour. It’s good to understand what judges are looking for, even just to improve my skills level.
Yes I'd like to hear about armour too, slightly different things to pick up. For example we didn't count rivets in the aircraft category so not sure how deep they go on accuracy?
Thanks for this and oddly the European way is how the American Cub Scouts treated the Pine Wood Derby which I won Creativity every year when I was a cub Scot in the late '90s and '00s. Till they spilt the category and did not tell anyone and that resulted in me getting a participation trophy which I have never felt good about. Also I would love a video going over your entrees and how they did(Or why you think they did the way they did)!
Great idea on follow up, I might film that shortly before I put these things on their new display cabinets cheers Chris
Less categories, open medal chances is far superior in awarding talent than lots of little categories and only 1/2/3 placings. The latter is participation trophies and allows for gaming entries to hunt for medals...
That was interesting…………feedback is essential I wouldn’t enter a competition that didn’t offer feedback as if I don’t learn from the judging well what’s the point? How do I prepare for next year if I don’t know why I failed to medal this year? So congrats on the feedback you gave the teens.
Of course B I G congratulations on your medals it must have been a real buzz!! One question: how could a model you completed three years ago medal? Is there no growth in either the show or your modelling?
Bob
England
Theres not the much growth in the hobby over the COVID period, more quantity really!
Thanks for sharing such valuable info mate. You have helped me to understand how the judging process works, however I agree with you, on how they should be judged like EU. By, the way, ya models look stunning mate.
Thanks Steve, appreciate it.
I don't enter modelling shows for 1 reason, that being I don't really care what another person thinks of my work, so long as I'm happy with the end result then all is good.
We're all different, I have a modelling friend who could win Gold in the ship categories everytime if he entered, but he doesnt care what others think of his work....