S judges are bright eyed folks. NMRA are mass media. (spent years there before hitting up S. Was a judge once in Cleveland. Lunch was 3:30
John Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: Willam Fraley To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:38 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Contests and Judging Folks .... Judging models is very tedious, the judge must know what the prototype is, or they can't accurately judge the model. I've witnessed NMRA judges wearing Binocular Magnifier Lens when appraising a model, however, I don't feel that our NASG judges are as stringent. Basically, it would be nice to have a "critique" after the contest. We do that at our photography contests. It's amazing the different concepts coming from the judges, many disagreeing with each other. But in model contests it is different and the winners are won on points, but it still would be nice to have critiques. Most likely this will never happen as after the judging's in our model contests, the room is locked up, later the models are taken home and that's it. I often wondered what was good and bad about my entry, but never had the opportunity to find the judges and ask so I accept the ruling and get on with my life. I don't even like to write about our contests, as I have caused some pretty heavy breathing because of my innocent remarks. Such is life, but I still like to enter my models regardless and I've been entering models since 1962 when I won my first Award for a pretty bad B&W image of my Jefferson Central Railroad Station at night. I was so proud! Frankly, I feel every entry should receive an award, boy, then would we have a lot of models entered! So, there! Bill FRaley
