Writer's Guidelines

Interested in sharing your project with other modelers? We’d be happy to show you what we look for in article submissions.

General Guidelines:

1. We won’t bash a bad model and don’t bash a hobby company for the inevitable stinker that gets released. What we’re here to provide is a means to share with other modelers how you overcame one or more challenges in the project. We don’t publish bad reviews – we send our findings directly back to the manufacturer. Please orient your article toward helping other modelers learn what you’ve done to achieve a successful build.
2. Take 8 – 10 photos of your model from different angles and include close-ups of unique details. Please ensure that all photos are in focus prior to submission – preview them on your computer.
3. Write up your project. Start off with a few paragraphs about the full-scale subject and its relevance in history, whether it is about all versions of that subject or something interesting about that particular subject. Next, write up your build. The best way to achieve this is use the instructions as your outline and write up each step, any challenges you encountered and how you overcame those challenges.

Specific Guidelines:

1. Photos:

• We can use just about any digital image format, but JPEG (JPG) format is the most efficient to email.
• Ensure your photos are between 1200 and 1600 pixels wide.
• Ensure that your images are in focus. Using the camera’s LCD to determine the quality of your focus is misleading.
• Please do NOT crop your images. We’ll do the cropping and editing here.
• If your camera has a white balance option, please ensure the camera is calibrated to the lighting you’re using for your photo shoot or you may end up with some interesting color shifting in your images.

2. Write-up:

• Have fun and be entertaining in your presentation. Lord knows we read enough dry technical stuff at work…

3. Data Block

• Please ensure you provide the following with your submission:
• Your full name and email address
• The name of the project
• The manufacturer of the kit(s) used
• The scale of the project
• The kit number(s) used
• What was the kit’s primary media? Styrene, vacuform, resin, wood, unobtainium?
• What was media was used for the detail parts? Styrene, white metal, photo-etch, resin, whatever. List all that apply.
• What media was used for any windows/transparencies? Styrene, resin, vacuform. List all that apply.
• What was the suggested retail price of the kit? If it is out of production, simply indicate OOP.
• What did you like about the kit/build?
• What didn’t you like about the kit/build?

Conclusions

That’s it! Pull a write-up with the above along with your photos together and email them to tacair@earthlink.net, we’ll take care of the rest.

NOTE: Submission of an article to Cybermodeler Online constitutes permission to publish the materials submitted. While the author will retain copyright of the article and images, submission of those materials to Cybermodeler Online constitutes irrevocable permission to keep that article online indefinitely. Cybermodeler Online will not reprint your article in any other medium or forum outside of Cybermodeler Online without the author’s permission.

NOTE: Submission of an article to Cybermodeler Online does not guarantee publication. If there are any technical or other issues that cannot be resolved with the author, we reserve the right not to publish.