I have been reading the rules and requirements on the Walthers website. Four classes of entry: youth, youth group, adult, adult group. You purchase a prepackaged selection of kits from Walthers (they give choices for each class of entry but not much detail about what is in each package) and then use all of it in a module. Different sizes of module compared to category of entry. There are cash prizes, fairly generous. Judging is based on photos (they post what they will require) but there is also a people’s choice award based I gather on social media reaction.
On the one hand some of the rules seem too fussy and the time line for completion (May 15) seems tight. But a friend who works at Walthers says that the discount being given on what is in the package is considerable so even if you buy the package and then forego the contest you might come out ahead IF the package has stuff you want and need. That is what makes the ambiguity about what is in them somewhat frustrating. They show photos but too grainy to make out what all the kits are; no list.
I have not yet made up my mind but time is running out to order and have any hope of having a 2’ x 4’ module (adult individual) done and photographed by mid May.
Thanks a lot for posting this, I wouldn’t know about this for a while (until I got my next Flyer). I’m probably going to enter with my friend (a very talented and creative modeler) in the 14 and under catigory (just barely made the cut).
Hi everyone, if you check out the contest via the home page, just click on any of the photos and you can get a larger image, plus a list of what kits are included.
Interesting, but, not for me. I really don’t need any of the kits in the Adult Individiual, time line isn’t too bad, I could get it done before the outside hobby and construction “season” begins.
I have no use for the module, once finished, and wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Now the MRVP sounds interesting, but I suppose you have to subscribe to MRVP to enter, or see what it’s all about.
My “extra curricular activities” on MR is the Digital Archives. That’s all I need.
They took the Walthers State Line Farm Supply kit as a basis for a kitbash. Everyone from MR and MRVP including Kathy Millat and Jenny turned it into something else a brew pub, a 2 story structure, a car dealer, an orange processor. a few readers sent in pictures of their creations. It was interesting to see everyone’s take on the project. It wasn’t really a contest.
Masonite makes doors now, maybe it’s like IBM selling off the computer business. Neither Lowes nor Home Depot show a Masonite brand hardboard.
The term is like kleenex. No one asks you to hand them a facial tissue, or to quote a Supreme Court justice; “I know it when I see it” although I think he was talking about movies.[}:)]
it is technically call MDF. Medium density fiberboard. Masonite and hard board (they are brand names) are recognized because most are familiar with the brand name.
Masonite is a registered trademark of the Masonite Corp., a “wet process” board product, invented in 1924. ( I’ve been reading up. [(-D]) and much more dense that HDF or MDF, which are “dry processed”.
The Masonit Corp. now uses the name DURON for it’s hard board products, which I also found out is typically what the lumber stores sell.
For whatever all this is worth. [%-)]
Moving on!
Excuse me, I need to grap some kleenex, I just sneezed all over my masonite. [*-)]