Those were great!
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Like Mark Twain told the people attending his lectures “Do not bring your dog.”
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I love these “Warnings”! If that doesn’t work I don’t know what else a club could do to get people to show some restraint and not touch the models.
@MR_TOM_SCHRY
If all else fails, this might help.
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Well Tom, it would appear that your question of what else a club could do has been conclusively answered.
I’d love to get that on a tee shirt and wear that shirt to the next contest that I go to.
I used to have this on my display shelves.
Rob
Iwata Padawan
Tomorrow, our club is doing a display table at a local mall for an Aviation STEM day. I find at these sorts of events, we have more issues of adults trying to handle the models more than kids even though the tables have multiple “Please do not touch the Models” signs.
Ill add one, " When placing models do not cover up your contestant number and entry numbers." Contest photographers and judges need to have that info available so awards can be given and models can be tied to entrants for publication and recognition.
Wifes a RN, she got a chuckle outa this!
It almost makes me want to touch the models, just so I can meet Ellie. 
And then like in a bad comedy movie, a big hairy guy that sounds like Dr. Girlfriend from Venture Bros says:
“Hey stoopid, I hear you touched a model and now need some medical attention! Yeah, well there’s a line right now! We’re still collecting pieces of some yokel who picked up somebody’s tank! So sit there and shappup! Here, put pressure on that. It’ll slow the bleeding.”
Don’t take offense if you hear something other than positive comments about your model!
Last weekend was our big local show and the was this beautiful RAF maintenance display diorama. All the figures were painted some sort of fluorescent blue and had a high gloss finish that I would be proud to manage to get on a show car. They REALLY took away from the rest of the work. I turned to my son and said “this would be a great piece if it weren’t for the figures”. Well of course the builder was standing right behind us and heard me. He starting almost screaming about how hard he worked and if I didn’t like it don’t look at it. I was not interested in a confrontation so just walked away and he just followed sputtering and snorting about how I probably never built a model in my life. I thought he was going to hit me at one point.
OH and he was not aware of Rule 5 here I am sure.
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Someome seems triggered by a recent show based on all these rules. HAHA
I agree with many of these rules. Especially the hygene rules. I have encountered some serious funk at model shows. I don’t understand it.
As for your model placement rule / ettiquette. It is hard to willingly place a model at the back of a table due to its size because judges can’t move the models. If you place your model at the back of the table you are increasing your chances of those judges missing something. So how does that work?
Another rule I would like to mention…
Do not bring your model to the same show multiple times. If you built a great award winning model, it should only be brough to one season or years worth of shows, and then retired.
Now if you attend a new show, you can bring that model, but don’t bring that model to the same show twice.
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I agree with the stink! I have never been to a model convention, but I have been to a gaming one…and yeah it was pretty bad.
If you think I am the one being “triggered” since I wrote most of these rules, then you are mistaken. They are just simple “observations” that I (or others) make when going to contests. Actually, I wouldn’t necessarily call them rules, but rather more like guidelines, or perhaps “helpful advice”.
And as for my original item # 13 about placing models, I did use the words “if possible”. Granted, I know that it may (or may not) be possible at every contest due to various variables.
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I’m not saying you are wrong. What I mean when I say you were triggered is you must have recently experienced these issues. People don’t just wake up in the morning and want to type out a set of rules for no reason.
I don’t understand where Rule #3 is derived from. Why is it important to suggest that attendees fulfill all three “requirements”? I think that’s odd.
It’s not unusual at multi-day conventions to get caught up in the social aspects and not take care of yourself. Lack of sleep and imbibing too much, plus the sheer number of people can lead to the ‘con crud’.
Rob
Iwata Padawan
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