Australian Model Expo 2024: Part 7
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The Australian Model Expo 2024 was held over the long weekend holiday of 8-10 June.
This year was my fourth time judging and my first time judging cars - these are the Kurbside Cars, Open.
These first three pics are of the same model but from different angles to show the colour shifting properties of the paint. (Had the windscreen been cleaned and polished it would have been a strong contender.)
I also judged the Gundam and Mecha, again for the first time.
And that's all, folks.
Some nice looking cars there, thanks for posting.
What an impressive expo, Michael @michaelt
So many fantastic builds in the topics you posted.
Definitely not an easy task to judge all those builds.
Is there a sort of procedure you have to follow while judging those builds?
G'day John (@johnb),
Judging is a two stage process.
The first is a quick look with four categories worth 3 points each (from memory: References, Construction, Finish and Attention to Detail)
You hope to have 4-5 contenders from that.
Then there is a detailed look for a total of 100 points (I think I have these right):
References (10 points)
Construction (30 points)
Finish (30 points)
Attention to Detail (20 points)
Realism (10 points)
Funnily enough, a lot of people fail the References section. Either they don't provide any (0 points) or they tell you what they have done and not why and what they were trying to achieve.
For instance, for a couple of the car builds, they splayed the wheels out and in the references stated that this is what is popular in Japan. What they didn't do is provide any photographs of real cars (not necessarily the one that they modelled) that have that done so we could see what they were trying to achieve. So, we couldn't tell if what they had done was realistic or not.
The final judging often comes down to finding small flaws to separate 1st from 2nd and 3rd.
Michael, thank you for posting all the great photos from the Expo. There are many spectacular builds across all the categories.
Wow!
Great series Michael - thanks for sharing this. It's very inspiring 😀