Yes... you get to know about it here 1st! Another painting contest to get you up to speed... but with an added twist this time! You cant enter a kit that costs more than a recommended retail price of 700 Japanese yen.
Complicated? maybe.... I need your feedback. The idea is that you take an inexpensive kit and make it awesome. Inexpensive kits being mandatory levels the playing field so we have no Master Grades that may put the cheaper kit entries at an unfair disadvantage. You dont have to use a brand new kit purchase either... If you have an old First or No grade kit lying around unloved at home, that's perfectly fine for us that you make good use of them here. The theme we will adopt is an adaptation of a suggestion from www.youtube/user/GundamGuns where you take any one country as the theme for your paintjob. ie, if you decide to use the United Kingdom as you country of choice... you could use the colours of the Union Jack flag for the colours. BUT of course red white and blue are bog standard typical Gundam colours so that is no way enough to win by just entering a normal RX-78-2 in normal colour scheme! You'd have to add your own design paterns so that at a glance I can see that your robot represents the UK... Let your imagination run wild! It should be a blast to make entries for this and will be brilliant for us to judge too. Kinda like G-Gundam battle of nations or a Soccer World Cup event. Get the idea? I will allow also photo entries this time but you can do both YouTube and Photo entries if you want. The photos helps us get a better look at your work's end results whilst video is great... not everyone has a video camera and webcam vids can be a little hard to see details. Start your own Entry Thread and post your photo links here http://gundam-hub.techno-zone.net/gundam-world-contest-f4/2old4toys-ishop2go-gundam-contest-colours-of-all-nations-of-the-earth-t5.htm#6
No crazy physical kitbash projects! The main focus here is the paint-job design and execution
The prize will be yet again generously sponsored by the great folks at ishop2go.com and helping us with the adjudication will be the return of the awesome Mokanaman!
The deadline is Nov 1st. If you want to enter just for fun and not for the prize, just let us know too!
FAQ:
Q. Can I use an SD kit? A. If it retailed for 800 Yen or less then yes.
Q. Can I use decals? A. Yes. Use of decals is allowed.
Q. I picked up this kit on-the-cheap for less than 800Yen but it's original retail is more. Is it valid for winning the contest? A. No but you can enter just for fun if you like (state this in the video!)
Sunday, 25 July 2010
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So far no complaints from my side - but a question:
ReplyDeleteare Mobile Armor / Mobile Pods / Vehicles okay too? Examples: Old Grade 1/550 Bigro, 1/1200 Magellan or the Ball
@Ghostychan I think those are real old kits that have a retail cost around 300yen a piece right? If so then they's be PERFECT!
ReplyDeletehey! um do you know when you qould have to enter by cause i might have to get a new model if its going to be around lowish/ no grade price! so if mabye you could give me an idea of a date
ReplyDeleteI can't find a steady price on the kit, but would the old HG Mobile Turn X kit be acceptable?
ReplyDeleteFor prices, I suggest checking sites like HLJ.com, which show the retail price in yen
ReplyDelete@Baby TheEnd:
there's a way to check the retail price in yen on Gunpla boxes - on one side of the box, theres the bar code, and right above the bar code is a number - in case of the 1/144 Turn X '645075-0071695-600'
don't bother for the first 2 numbers, just check the number after the second '-' - it's the Japanese retail price, and in case of the Turn X, 600 yen
Do you have any idea of a deadline?
ReplyDeleteAbout the content for the video, is it the work in progress or the finishing kit?
ReplyDeleteSince we all working on a simple NG or FG 1/144 I hope You dont make the deadline something ridiculous like 2 months but maybe 4 weeks I just work better on under pressure.
ReplyDeletehow about an action figure
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to up the base price. The cheapest ones my local hobby shop carries are 1200srp. I would rather not got shopping online if I can avoid it. Every model I've ordered online comes messed up or missing something.
ReplyDeleteis this contest still happening? i would love to enter.
ReplyDeletehow do wesubmit our entries
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