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Monthly Model Contest

The BMRC holds a model competition at each monthly meeting. All members are encouraged to submit a model and all models are judged by the members and guests in attendance.  Winners receive ribbons and points toward a "Modeler of the Year" award.  Two categories are available for entry:  "kit-based" entries, and  "scratch-built" models.  Members may enter one or both tiers each month.  (For a complete listing of the rules and contest topics, click on Rules and Topics.)

This is a friendly competition, with the main purpose of encouraging model building and learning from the works of others.  It is also one of the eagerly anticipated parts of each meeting, as all members enjoy viewing the models created by their peers.

Here is one of the winning models from past contents:

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Contest topics for 2010

January: Freight rolling stock.

February: Track structures (bridges, trestles, over/under pass, etc.)

March: Painting of models.

April: Off-line structures (houses, stores, etc.)

May: Railroad owned structures.

June: Dioramas/modules (any size, scenery, mountains, modules, anything RR)

July: MOW equipment, including cabooses.

August: Locomotive servicing (water/coal/sand towers, etc.)

September: Open. Anything goes, even non-RR models.

October: Passenger rolling stock. Full train or individual car.  (Changed)

November: Industries served directly by railroad. (Changed)

December: Model of the Year Contest (Bring only models that have won blue ribbons in the past 11 months.

We invite models that are "in progress," models that were built many years ago, or models that just don't fit our two categories to be displayed at our Show and Tell Table.  These models are not judged and you are invited to describe what you have brought.