This will be our new tradition. Every year, we will run several editions of donating prizes for scale modeling competitions. This is the first edition - a UK national one.
Not eligible for this one but I support the idea. A win win for all involved.
Campaigns builds here are not competitive but would they apply?
Hi Dorota,
I’m part of a group called MAFVA - the Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicles Association, which is based here in the UK with a few overseas branches too. Our annual show takes place on Father’s Day in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, and includes a model competition - I suspect they’d be more than happy to hand out some of your tracks as prizes! (I’m one of the judges, so not eligible for the competition myself…)
DN Studios graciously donated four sets of M4 Sherman tracks to Armorcon as prizes. We are very grateful to them. Thank you Dorota.
Very nice.
Im not eligible this time around, but at the very least you caused me to look at your site. If I’m seeing correctly, only one modern offering so far. But it shows you’re willing to do them. I’d be tickled to see a Bradley ammo hot box set.
Hello Ryan,
We will be announcing an international edition in August.
Campaign builds would be a great idea. However, there are two issues from our side.
First, how would the winners be selected, and how would it be decided who receives the prizes?
Second, the shipping costs would be quite high for us if we had to send track sets to each individual participant, especially if they are located in different countries.
We’re definitely interested in supporting the campaign, but we’d need to find a practical way to handle the prize distribution.
Indeed. The “Good Old Boy” method is hard to implement in this situation.
For the US, select a “Trusted Agent.” Send a goodly amount of tracks all at once, saving quite a bit on shipping. Once here, shipping for such small items is very reasonable. Throw him (or her) a bone for the trouble.
I would first select a ratio. Let say 1 set per 5 completed builds or some variation. The campaign manager could select the winners from a hat/random computer number generator or could set up a poll at the end and have the members pick.
We could state up front that shipping and any extra fees are the winners responsible. The winner would purchase the tracks and then be reimbursed for the track cost only. That way you have all the correct shipping information and necessary fees within your existing system.
I do like Robert’s idea if multiple winners from one country. Could also make the campaign county and/or region specific. Not sure about global rates from your location if that is worth while or not.
These are just some ways to possibly work around the legitimate concerns you bring up.
This would actually be a great idea. I just need to find the person who is wiling to do this.
I’m not sure about making the ammo boxes but we will be making track for modern AFVs fo sure. We actually made the tracks for Bradley (Magic Factory) but they require using a glue, so we haven’t released them.
I think that the the pool with number is the best option. Each finished project would get a random number and then randomly selected by the computer.