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Rank Names
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 2:56 PM
David mentioned that they may be inclined to change the rank names if we can come up with something a little more interesting. I am not that creative(in my opinion) but I did come up with a couple of ideas to try and get things started. Let's see what you think.

First list:
1. Snap-Together/Snap-Tite (not sure about copyrights etc. on that one)
2. Box-Stock
3. After-Market
4. Multi-Media
5. Scratch-Built

Second list:
1. Plastic
2. Resin
3. Photo-etched
4. Machined
5. Multi-media or maybe Scratch-built again

Just a couple of ideas I thought I'd toss out there. Let's get the creative juices flowing and make this community our own.

Ray
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 5:58 PM
I like that first list. Some how I missed Davids post though. Oh-well, such is life.
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Posted by David Voss on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 6:33 PM
Interesting lists. Smile [:)]

BTW, the comment that Ray is referring to was made in the What do the stars mean??? thread.

I would invite everyone to give some feedback on this and/or post suggestions.
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Posted by berny13 on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 7:24 PM
1. Begining Member

2. Junior Member

3. Advanced Member

4. Master Member

5. Senior Member

6. Expert Member



Berny

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Posted by djmodels1999 on Thursday, April 3, 2003 1:11 AM
What about:

no star: Novice
one star: Beginner
two stars: Beginner getting there
three stars: Master Wink [;)]
four stars: Beginner nearly there
five stars: Just about master

Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 3, 2003 11:23 AM
Or we could go:

1. stops in once in a blue moon

all the way up to

5. second home

Although I'm sure this feels like a second home to a lot of us already (and I only have 1 star) :-)

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Posted by Kolja94 on Thursday, April 3, 2003 4:27 PM
I like heylonghair's first list!!!

Karl

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Posted by David Voss on Sunday, April 6, 2003 11:26 PM
Anymore suggestions?

So far I like the following two lists.

heylonghair's list
1. Snap-Together/Snap-Tite (not sure about copyrights etc. on that one)
2. Box-Stock
3. After-Market
4. Multi-Media
5. Scratch-Built

berny13's list
1. Begining Member
2. Junior Member
3. Advanced Member
4. Master Member
5. Senior Member
6. Expert Member
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Posted by djmodels1999 on Monday, April 7, 2003 2:11 AM
I like Heylonghair's better. It's not as 'serious' as the other one!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 7, 2003 11:45 AM
I also prefer heylonghair's list for the same reason.
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Posted by David Voss on Monday, April 7, 2003 12:06 PM
Okay, the only (really minor) problem with the first list is that there are rank names for only 5 levels, when there is actually 6. So if we were to go with this list, we need either one more rank name at the beginning or one at the end.

Level 0
Rank Name: ???
Post Count: 0-9

Level 1
Rank Name: Snap-Together/Snap-Tite
Post Count: 10-99

Level 2
Rank Name: Box-Stock
Post Count: 100-499

Level 3
Rank Name: After-Market
Post Count: 500-999

Level 4
Rank Name: Multi-Media
Post Count: 1000-1999

Level 5
Rank Name: Scratch-Built
Post Count: 2000+


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Would level 0 be "Diecast" or "Pre-Assembled"? Tongue [:P]Wink [;)]
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Did I ever mention that my views do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the magazine? Wink [;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 7, 2003 1:31 PM
How move levels 1-4 down 1 and make level 4 Kit-Bash?
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Posted by Buddho on Monday, April 7, 2003 3:55 PM
I like Heylonghair's first list and berny13's list too.

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Posted by berny13 on Monday, April 7, 2003 6:17 PM
Well, the first level you can go with "Lego".

Berny

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TF-102A Delta Dagger, 32nd FIS, 54-1370, 1/48 scale. Monogram Pro Modeler with C&H conversion.  

Revell F-4E Phantom II 33rd TFW, 58th TFS, 69-260, 1/32 scale. 

Tamiya F-4D Phantom II, 13th TFS, 66-8711, 1/32 scale.  F-4 Phantom Group Build. 

 

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Posted by David Voss on Monday, April 7, 2003 8:55 PM
LEGO is a registered trademark. Speaking of which, they have a cool site! It's located at http://www.lego.com/ of course. Smile [:)]

Instead of LEGO, maybe we could use "Wood Block". Wink [;)]

Or, I could change Level 0 to be for only Post Count 0, adjusting Level 1 for Post Counts of 1-99. Then for Level 0, the rank name could be "Unwrapped", "Shrinkwrapped" or "Still In Box". Wink [;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 7, 2003 9:48 PM
Uh-oh, now you mentioned LEGO. Check out mlCAD (Mike,s LEGO CAD) Yes it,s a fullfeature CAD and you make things with LEGO. Sorry way OT.
I like "shrinkwrapped" BTW.
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Posted by David Voss on Monday, April 7, 2003 10:12 PM
Sweet!! Smile [:)] http://www.lm-software.com/mlcad/
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Posted by weebles on Monday, April 7, 2003 10:54 PM
For what it's worth I don't think that the ranking should have a relationship to the quality of an individuals work. It should be related to their contribution. That's why I suggested "contributing member" after "junior member". How about one called "Sage"? Smile [:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 8, 2003 11:46 PM
Now we're getting somewhere. There are some great suggestions here. I like both the shrink-wrapped and the kit-bashed suggestions. That's a tough call there.

davidwaples, please don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to suggest that the ranks are in relationship to the quality of someone's work. As a person gets involved in the hobby the length of time they have spent in the hobby tends to be proportional to the time, effort, and difficulty of the work attempted. I was merely trying to suggest that as a person spends more time in the hobby they will be more inclined to attempt more and more difficult kits and/or scenarios. Thus the relationship to the number of posts(spending more time in the forums and thus contributing more). If anyone is offended I sincerely apologize. These lists were presented in a light-hearted manner and are intended simply to be a fun and slightly irreverent reflection of our hobby in general. Something to make this community uniquely ours. As a couple of other members pointed out, these aren't "serious", we're here to have fun.


Having been mulling it over while typing this, I think I am starting to lean toward kit-bashed. IMHO, it seems to fit in a little better with the flow of the rest of the ranks.
So it would look like this:
1. Snap-Together/Snap-Tite (not sure about copyrights etc. on that one)
2. Box-Stock
3. After-Market
4. Multi-Media
5. Kit-Bashed
6. Scratch-Built


Ray
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Posted by David Voss on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 2:22 PM
Okay, it's official. Big Smile [:D]

I received an email this morning with the okay to change the rank names. So here is the new list. Cool [8D]

1. Snap-together
2. Box-stock
3. Aftermarket
4. Multi-media
5. Kitbashed
6. Scratchbuilt
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Posted by midnightprowler on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 4:08 PM
I like the new names.
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Posted by Woody on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:41 PM
Very nice! Woody like!

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Posted by BlackWolf3945 on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:56 PM
The new rank names are clever and very appropriate for a modeling forum. And besides, they're WAY-COOL!

Kudos to Longhair for the base idea!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 17, 2003 1:02 PM
well some how i TOYALLY missed this thread!!!!! I love the new names.... It REALLY xfeels like home here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave, PERMISSION!!!!!!!! From WHO??????? I thought we were the sanctioning body????? You know, for the people BY the people?????? You only need OUR (meaning everyone in this forum) PERMISSION!!!!!!!



LOL



Just kidding Dave !!!!!

Great job Dave!!!!!!!
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Posted by FreedomEagle1953 on Thursday, April 17, 2003 1:09 PM
Well guys ... for what it's worth ... here's my 2 cents ...

I like 'em!

Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 17, 2003 10:22 PM
Three words. Ex cell lentBig Smile [:D]
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Posted by Keyworth on Friday, April 18, 2003 8:02 PM
Way cool, Dave! Makes the ranking much more fun and certainly less serious! Nice going :) - Ed
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Posted by Buddho on Saturday, April 19, 2003 9:51 PM
I love the new rank names....very cool! Tongue [:P]

Regards, Dan

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 28, 2003 12:42 PM
Great names, keep up good work.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:04 PM
I am not going to write that all over again. See my oposting in "What do the stars mean???" 05/20/03, 20:56:44.
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