In Search of a Category

Tom,

I think they would forever be categorized as Miscellaneous.  I doubt the model firearms genre (at any scale) will ever have enough interest to ever get it's own category (or even sub-category).

If you have trouble at a show, bring a copy of the IPMS Categories list (http://www.ipmsusa.org/NCC/categories_2012.htm).  Even if the show isn't IPMS governed, it would give the judges the idea of where they go.

Paul

I've seen a few kits like that in shows over the many years I've been doing this.They have always been placed in Miscellaneous. If the rulers of the contest were so dumbfounded by where to put the model (assuming they even allowed for a misc. category where Visible V-8's, le Rhone engines, dinosaurs, a Shaekesperean theatre, all of which I've seen at shows), I'd accept their award and never again darken their door with my presence.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity can't be fixed.

If you were hosting a show, in what category would you place your firearm kits?

Lacking a category for "Scale model rifles, muskets, match/flint/firelocks, blunderbuss, pistols, revolvers, and other personal firearms, military issue or civilian" which would have been empty in every contest I've been to since Noreastcon 1999, where a half or third scale Kentucky Long Rifle was entered, these would go into miscellaneous. There was one year, sometime in the mid to late 80's where 2 or 3 model guns showed up at the long defunct Worcester MA show.

I have to admit that given the category make-up, I'd probably place it in Miscellaneous as well (although I still kinda like Armor).  However, in the local show, just as in the categories in this forum, there is no miscellaneous category--- it's Figures and Miscellaneous.  They really should be two separate categories.  I checked the IPMS contest categories and apparently my kits would fit under the Category: Miscellaneous, Sub-category: Miscellaneous.  Now that really hurts!

Tom