And Another Thing About The Model Show...
Mar. 17th, 2007 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
After helping set up overnight and doing more this morning, and then over an hour working the registration table, I took a quick circuit of the vendors and decided to go back to the house.
1) I was too tired, stressed and worn to have much fun.
2) I didn't have much money on me, so I couldn't justify buying anything. Even though a few places had things I'd lusted after for years. With my luck, they'll get reissued by Christmas.
3) I didn't have any models to enter or display, so there was no point in me hanging around.
4) After the disaster of 2006, I could not, in good conscience, judge. Judging is a tougher gig than it looks. First couple times I did it, it worked. Last couple...don't wanna talk about it.
I don't bother to travel to (or enter in) other clubs' model competitions mostly because I don't build scale models to replicate real-life objects but to explore concepts. And partly because I haven't thought much of my technique. And partly because I don't care for trophies per se. (Pay a $10 entry fee for a chance to take home a marble brick or two? The thrill of victory?--In this business, nobody really cares! As for odds...projecting the number of entries versus the number of prize catagories, the odds would be about one in ten for winning a trophy in our show. Hardly worth it IMHO.) For me, the club is mainly about socializing and trading information. I don't need the show; it's just something the club does.
I just want to get back to the workbench and finish what I already have in progress.
FP
1) I was too tired, stressed and worn to have much fun.
2) I didn't have much money on me, so I couldn't justify buying anything. Even though a few places had things I'd lusted after for years. With my luck, they'll get reissued by Christmas.
3) I didn't have any models to enter or display, so there was no point in me hanging around.
4) After the disaster of 2006, I could not, in good conscience, judge. Judging is a tougher gig than it looks. First couple times I did it, it worked. Last couple...don't wanna talk about it.
I don't bother to travel to (or enter in) other clubs' model competitions mostly because I don't build scale models to replicate real-life objects but to explore concepts. And partly because I haven't thought much of my technique. And partly because I don't care for trophies per se. (Pay a $10 entry fee for a chance to take home a marble brick or two? The thrill of victory?--In this business, nobody really cares! As for odds...projecting the number of entries versus the number of prize catagories, the odds would be about one in ten for winning a trophy in our show. Hardly worth it IMHO.) For me, the club is mainly about socializing and trading information. I don't need the show; it's just something the club does.
I just want to get back to the workbench and finish what I already have in progress.
FP