week Two Class in contests.

[Darin Bastedo]

One thing I've fond that we truly need in Model contest is what I call a week two class. This is for people who tend to build only slightly modified cars. Take for instance you build a nearly factory stock model of the new 72 Oldsmobile 442 kit, but you just love the looks of a set of cragar five spokes on it. This model wont fit in a Factory Stock class because of the non-stock wheels, but is also likely to be overshadowed by the full on Pro-touring or Pro-street cars so often found in the street machine class. what do you guys think?

[Marc @ MPC Motorsports]

The MCMA in Dallas used to have a "Modified Out of Box" class for just that.

[puddingwrestler]

Model Expo here in Melbourne has three classes for every type of model - Out of Box, Enhanced OOB and Open. OOB must be built exaclty as per instructions, Enhanced can have minor modifications like non-stock wheels, aerials added to AFVs etc. Open has not restrictions and runs the gammut from mild custom work to completely scratch built pro-street hearses with jet-engines and warp nacelles...

[Jon Cole]

Classic Plastic (and I believe other contests as well) have a "Shelf" class that will work for that. Even the "Misc." class is OK.