Welcome to the Airfix Quarterly Competition

Welcome to the Airfix quarterly competition. This site is run entirely by volunteers and dedicated to hosting a quarterly competition for 1/76 scale military vehicles, their crew and equipment. We use a Public Voting system for  each quarterly competition to decide the most favored. Although prizes will be offered (these may vary each quarter depending on the sponsors, etc. and will be announced the month prior to the contest), the goal of this website is to encourage modellers to finish more models,and improve their skills,. And along the way we hope to provide some inspiration, enthusiasm & support for 1/76 scale modellers everywhere.

If you would like to be a sponsor or translate the site into your language, please contact us. We hope with your help our project can develop for the benefit of all 1/76 scale modellers.

Competition Rules

Updated: 06 January, 2011

Rules

• Kit: any Airfix labelled kit can be entered. If you decide to build an Airfix reboxing of another companies kit you can use the original companies release, so long as it has not been altered since being reboxed by Airfix. Itw is also helpful if the model can be accompanied by the Airfix box/packaging or at least a photograph of it (IE: Amt cars etc.)
• Figures: may also be included, but if they are not part of the Airfix kit (IE: RAF Emergency set), the figures  can not be counted towards the judging
• Basing: the model can be displayed on a base with or without groundwork or man-made objects (IE: a wall or road surface), but if they are not part of the Airfix kit (IE: WW1 - The Western Front gift set), the basing can not be counted towards the judging
• Categories: there are 3 possible categories to place your model in. The 1st category is Out Of The Box. OOTB is using only the kit parts and kit decals as supplied. The 2nd category is Detailed.  Detailed can be anything from a decal change to a major reworking of the kit. The 3rd category is Conversion. Conversions mus use at least 25% of the Airfix kit
• Builds: the model can be started before the comp, but this has to be mentioned (and may be subject to a docking of points)
• Painting: you can use any paints you want to, not just the Airfix paints
• Entries: entries for any given quarter are open from the 1st and close on the 20th. (IE: 01 January - 20 March,  01 April - 20 June, 01 July - 20 September, 01 October - 20 December)
• Entries: each model may only be entered once and cannot be re-entered in subsequent quarterly competitions
• Participation: a minimum of 5 entrants each quarter are required - less than this and the competition will not be held for that quarter and the entries carried over to the next quarter
• Photos: 5 or more photos must be submitted, 1 of which must be before painting (some parts can have been pre-painted). The photos must contain views of all sides of the model
• Photos: no 'photoshoping' is allowed with the following exceptions: brightness & contrast, cropping, minor color correction and sharpening
• Photos: photos must be in the jpeg format and between 700-800 pixels on their longest side. Images smaller than this will be rejected. Larger images will be resized
• Photos: photos must be greater than 65kb in size, images smaller than this will be rejected. Images larger than 110Kb will be resized
• Photos: the main subject (not including ground work) must occupy 40% or more of the image
• Voting: this is a 'people's favorite' voting system. Anyone can vote for a model, but you may only vote once for each category (OOTB, Detailed and Conversions)
• Backgrounds: backgrounds should be kept as plain as possible. No elaborate/confusing/complex backgrounds or additional text such as entrant names will be accepted (no models on workbenches)
• Texts: all texts on a submitted entry must be in English, the title excluded. If the title is not in English, it is advisable to write a short explanation/translation in English in the description
• Description: a brief description of the entry, the year and season (winter, summer, etc.), it's theatre of operations, Airfix kit number, paints used, and any extras added/changes made must be included
• Voting: voting begins on the 21st and ends on the last day of the month for each quarter (IE: 21 March, 21 June, 21 September and 21 December)
• Voting: a Voter cannot vote for his own models
  
• Voting: Models will be judged on the quality of the work the modeller has done against the maximum potential of that model (after any modifications the model has received)
• CMS Staff: CMS Staff may enter the comp and vote, but will not be able to win. If this happens, then the award will go to the next one in line
• Winners: all prize winners will be notified by email. It is not the organizers responsibility if notification emails are sent to the wrong address, lost, deleted or filtered out by junk email filters
• If any modeller is deemed to have broken the rules in any way, then the model will be withdrawn from the competition and the modeller will be notified via email
• By entering the competition the entrant has agreed to the rules governing the competition
• The CMS Staff has the right to change, delete or add to the rules of the competition from time to time and notification of these and any other changes will only be made via the competition website. It is up to the entrant to read and understand the rules before entering the competition
• By participating in the competition, the user permits their photos to be used by the CMS Staff for promotional and training purposes. Their use will be strictly limited to the CMS website
• The CMS Staff reserve the right to withdraw any entry or delete any photo deemed inappropriate
• Have fun