Post by wardster on Dec 14, 2015 0:01:48 GMT -5
Dumb question: how "box stock" is "box stock"?
Would it be okay if all of the kit's parts were used, and there were no additions made from other kits (or other sources) ... BUT ... some of the kits' parts got cut up and moved? Or does that make it a "one kit kit-bash"?
What I'm thinking of would be all of the kit's parts used ... just not used literally as the instructions spell out.
I ask because I have the first Von Franco kit (the "Eye Gone Wild" release) but I want to make some cut-and-paste type body mods. (Actually, already did make the majority of them, when the kit first got released. Just never completed that build.) But I hadn't posted pics of what I'd done, either -- so as far as these boards are concerned, it would appear to be a new build -- so I suppose that's the next "would it be invalid?" question ... since it's not a "tore off the shrink-wrap, after the contest itself had been announced, and got started" kind of build. Basically what happened was that I just wanted to test some theories, back then, "between other projects" ... as far as "slanting" a few things, body-wise ... and once the theories were proven to my satisfaction, I put it aside to get back to whatever builds I was supposed to be working on, at that time. I guess I was thinking that yes, the knee-jerk reaction is to replace some of the kit's parts ... but I was wondering at that time how far a creative person could go, without doing that, to better match the box art. To do so without any additions made to the kit, from "foreign sources". So I had done some cuts and such, back then ... liked how it was turning out ... and ran out of time to play with it; and had to get back to "deadline models" or whatever was going on at that time. Where it's gathered dust, ever since.
But seeing it's an eligible kit makes me want to finish it, so ... ??
Worst case deal, it'd presumably still be eligible ... just not in the "box stock" category.
Would it be okay if all of the kit's parts were used, and there were no additions made from other kits (or other sources) ... BUT ... some of the kits' parts got cut up and moved? Or does that make it a "one kit kit-bash"?
What I'm thinking of would be all of the kit's parts used ... just not used literally as the instructions spell out.
I ask because I have the first Von Franco kit (the "Eye Gone Wild" release) but I want to make some cut-and-paste type body mods. (Actually, already did make the majority of them, when the kit first got released. Just never completed that build.) But I hadn't posted pics of what I'd done, either -- so as far as these boards are concerned, it would appear to be a new build -- so I suppose that's the next "would it be invalid?" question ... since it's not a "tore off the shrink-wrap, after the contest itself had been announced, and got started" kind of build. Basically what happened was that I just wanted to test some theories, back then, "between other projects" ... as far as "slanting" a few things, body-wise ... and once the theories were proven to my satisfaction, I put it aside to get back to whatever builds I was supposed to be working on, at that time. I guess I was thinking that yes, the knee-jerk reaction is to replace some of the kit's parts ... but I was wondering at that time how far a creative person could go, without doing that, to better match the box art. To do so without any additions made to the kit, from "foreign sources". So I had done some cuts and such, back then ... liked how it was turning out ... and ran out of time to play with it; and had to get back to "deadline models" or whatever was going on at that time. Where it's gathered dust, ever since.
But seeing it's an eligible kit makes me want to finish it, so ... ??
Worst case deal, it'd presumably still be eligible ... just not in the "box stock" category.
I finally posted a picture from a hosting site (Fotki). Now I have to get the size figured out...I didn't get very far...I got off track when I started messing around with casting parts...The weather got good and I spent a lot of time kayaking... 