I've been following the poll thread on the Atlas depot with interest, and had a (crazy?) idea. Would anyone be interested in joining a kitbashing challenge based on the Atlas Signal Tower? The rules would be something like the following:
-all participants start with the same kit (and the selling points for the Atlas signal tower are that it's cheap, readily available, and more or less identical in N, HO and O scales).
-participants can apply any level of modelling skill to the kit -- from basic construction and landscaping up to and including extensive bashing and scratching until the kit is no longer recognizable. Major structural changes, the use of commercial or homemade augmentables, lpb, vehilce, detail parts and landscaping are all permitted but not required. The only restriction is that the majority of the original Atlas kit must be incorporated into the final model.
-participants should post regular updates (hopefully with pictures) and descriptions of their progress. We could start a separate thread for the challenge.
-participants should try to get finished by the end of December and post a final picture of their structure on their layout or diorama.
I can't claim this as a new idea, and I have to acknowledge that this is inspired by challenges on other boards. To my knowledge an Atlas Signal Tower challenge hasn't been done before, although there are of course lots of articles out there on bashing this ubiquitous structure.
The challenge is non-competitive, except to the extent that hopefully participants will be inspiring each other with good feedback and encouragement to complete the project. This could also be a good chance for people to experiment with a different scale or try out a new building technique. The Atlas kit also just went on sale through Walthers (under $7) so the start up costs should be workable for most.
Does this sound interesting to anyone? I'm between projects and sort of uninsipired right now, so I thought it might be a cool idea....
-all participants start with the same kit (and the selling points for the Atlas signal tower are that it's cheap, readily available, and more or less identical in N, HO and O scales).
-participants can apply any level of modelling skill to the kit -- from basic construction and landscaping up to and including extensive bashing and scratching until the kit is no longer recognizable. Major structural changes, the use of commercial or homemade augmentables, lpb, vehilce, detail parts and landscaping are all permitted but not required. The only restriction is that the majority of the original Atlas kit must be incorporated into the final model.
-participants should post regular updates (hopefully with pictures) and descriptions of their progress. We could start a separate thread for the challenge.
-participants should try to get finished by the end of December and post a final picture of their structure on their layout or diorama.
I can't claim this as a new idea, and I have to acknowledge that this is inspired by challenges on other boards. To my knowledge an Atlas Signal Tower challenge hasn't been done before, although there are of course lots of articles out there on bashing this ubiquitous structure.
The challenge is non-competitive, except to the extent that hopefully participants will be inspiring each other with good feedback and encouragement to complete the project. This could also be a good chance for people to experiment with a different scale or try out a new building technique. The Atlas kit also just went on sale through Walthers (under $7) so the start up costs should be workable for most.
Does this sound interesting to anyone? I'm between projects and sort of uninsipired right now, so I thought it might be a cool idea....
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