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Thanks for all the help. Everything went off without a hitch and it looks like this may become an annual thing

some pictures from the parade

White glue or wood glue should work fine. Epoxy will also work. Superglue ( cyanoacrelate ) will melt the stuff, as will regular styrene cement. If time permits, I'd use the insul-foam as a base, and build the 'book' out of paper mache'. Poster paints would probably be the way to go for the finish....

I have a project at work (parade float) that was sort of thrown in my lap to complete) we have to be ready my Memorial day. The main structure of the float is two open books the body of the books is apprently to be made out of DOW Blue insulating Styrofoam. My job is to some how make this all work. ...

In Kitbuilders #53 there is an article on using one of those huge wooden spools for roto-casting that you may want to look at.

I may play around with a few mixtures to see what I get. The Dio I was doing however may not need it. once the basic land forms were in place the road just seems to be too much. But who knows....

Ok this place looked like the best place to put this. I need to model a stretch of two lane blacktop that has been chewed up by a crashing U.F.O. . The scale I am using is /72 (The aliens are freakin' huge GAME OVER MAN!) . The ship is crashed into the side of a hill and has pushed up under the edge...

What you need is one of these.... http://www.rolanddga.com/products/3D/combo/mdx15/default.asp They used one of these to make the new Darth Vader helmet... its on the special features dvd... its a bit out of my price range right now... although my girlfriend has her own jewelry business so maybe I ...

That sounds like a good idea to me, count me in.

I wanted to go, I was shooting for this year but the cost of fixing up the house has got me by the short ones.

I have a 50/50 chance of going next year.

I'll hammer everything out this weekend and get the ball rolling Monday. Home buying has sapped all my avaiable energy this month.

I like your suggestions for the 'rules' I'd say add that the design has to be new and not one mentioned in a book, comic, game, or other published source. The reason I suggested switching the contest was I am unaware of enough corellian frieghter designs to establish what MAKES them a corellian desi...

Well I was going to wait and let the poll decide for me right now Frieghters are ahead by 3. I'm thinking frieghters is more open than TIES were and NEW Republic ships are REALLY way open. The reason the TIE contest was so cool was we were forcing our designs to fit the TIE basics (Solar panels etc....

I like the idea of it being a Corellian Ship,here's a link to a CG ship I made I'd love to have a go at building something like this from my CG version back into an actual model !! http://www.3dcommune.com/3d/galview.mv?3D_Studio_Max+HsEv015NM+1044303556 That nose/cockpit in the front reminds me of...

Well it wouldn't be official..... but I think near then end of the "what if" contest will give people more time and have a end date in the fall or winter.

I'm thinking Corellians would be the subject to choose, but it's so close right now I'm thinking maybe we should wait until the "What if's" contest deadline draws closer.

I think I agree prizes will muddy the water and frankly I can't think of a reliable way to collect and distribute money or gifts etc. So i think we should just keep prizes out of it.

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I would say it's the TIE-Obliterator by a very narrow lead.

Congrats Alfred!

Well a good 20 is probably me editing my poor spelling and adding the link to the contest page and checking to see how the voteing was going.

That may be the best idea (as opposed to no prize at all) that way we don't have to hunt down sponsors. I could maybe donate $25 myself.

I'd rather work within the established limits, but that is good idea for another contest, the focus of the TIE contest was to work within the basic TIE design, and making that concept 'fit in' with the rest of the SW universe bt being a totally new design. We'd do the same for the above sugested the...

Our two lucky finalists are.......Drum roll please........... The TIE/Infiltrator with 54% of the popular vote from contest 2. and The TIE/Obliterator with 63% of the popular vote from contest 1. Now the tough decision, which of these two fine models gets to take home the gold... umm well actually t...

That's an option too. We'll have to see how many people we can get involved and see about what type of sponsor if any we can find or however else we can work it.

Heck Maybe if nothing else we could throw together a nice sized bits box to offer as a prize. Make each person donate a sandwhich baggie (or bigger) full of spare parts or maybe I can score a few odd ball kits at the outlet store. But I think with offering prizes we would want to make it extra clear...

7 out of 35 isn't bad considering there was no prize involved and we ran head long into another contest. The lack of communication was a bit of a let down. The major factor in that on my end was I didn't have a camera to show updates, but that will soon change (I hope). Plus people have a habit of h...

I myself would like to see this sort of thing continue (With 1-0 blessing of course) it promoted some great designs and actually got me working during a slump. So should we call it quits or what should our next theme be? Using the same guidelines as the original TIE contest naturally.

Woozle wrote:Shrug. it comes down to popular vote anyway, not a semi-professional judging on technical merit.

Hey now I can name 9 or 10 people on here who are at the least Semi Proffessional.

Now I'm just semi-retarded but there are Proffessional people on this board.

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Vote! This poll only runs 7 days. Then we can make a new poll with the winners from these two polls.

Moderator's Note:
CONTEST ENTRIES CAN BE VIEWED HERE:
http://starshipmodeler.com/starwars/tie_challenge.htm

The no Dioramas thing kills my one REALLY good idea. It's not something like a what if based on technology but more on events, and how they play out combining a fiction creation with an Historical event. To make it work theres no way to do it as a stand alone model because it's like a snapshot of th...