COMPETITION WINNERS

The end of August saw the closing date for our online competition, where we invited readers and fans of our Facebook page to send us some images of their models made from the kits of our sponsors Gecko Models, IBG Models and MiniArt. I’m pleased this month to announce our winners: Mateusz Szefer for his MiniArt SU-100, Bill O’Malley for his MiniArt AEC Mk. II Armoured Car, and Dustin Dias for his MiniArt Armoured Bulldozer (you can see this below, now in a diorama setting). We’ll be contacting the winners for their addresses …

Last month, we reminded potential contributors that a good article has three things: an interesting and well built model, a good story to tell about it, and some good photos. We also gave a few tips on photography, but I think the biggest hurdle that potential contributors face are the words. If you’re unused to writing or if English isn’t your first language then it can be quite a daunting prospect. Our traditional articles (six to eight pages of text and perhaps 25-30 step-by-step photos) usually have some 2,000-2,500 words. The step-by-step photos can either be captioned or merely numbered and called out in the text. Alternatively, you can simply provide captioned photos for a ‘photo essay’-type article. Don’t worry too much about your prose style: if you can write like a Booker-prize winner then fantastic, but if not our editorial team are there to make your musings readable. We don’t really have the facility to translate articles into English, but English is the second (or sometimes third or even fourth) language of the majority of our contributors so please don’t let that stop you giving it a go.

Our Facebook page now has over almost 63,000 followers, making it the biggest military modelling site on Facebook. If you are a manufacturer or retailer and would like to take advantage of the reach offered by our Facebook page to promote your products then please contact our Group PR & Marketing Director, Tom Foxon (tom@regallitho.co.uk).