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Late Breaking News for GSL XXIV
What's New!
January 2012:
The Trustees of the International Model Car Builders' Museum are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Fourth GSL Scale Vehicle Championship and
Convention will be held Thursday, May 2 through Sunday, May 5, 2013. This next international Championship will be held at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel – this is the same excellent facility where we've
presented GSL since 2007!
Be sure to reserve your room at the Salt Lake Sheraton at least thirty (30) days before the start of GSL-XXIV (May 2, 2013). You should call 1-800-325-3535, toll
-free, to make room reservations; room rates (single and double) are $107 per night (single or double-occupancy) plus room tax of 13.48 which equals $120.48 per night. Please stay at the Sheraton
because this helps us defray the cost of the Championship. Note that the Hotel does not guarantee this discounted room rate later than twenty-one days before the Championship start.
GSL Championship Goal:
The GSL International Scale Vehicle Championship and Convention was created to provide
serious scale vehicle modelers, of all ages, an opportunity to compete in an hospitable setting where basic and advanced craftsmanship, innovation, and risk-taking are rewarded, and
where the friendly exchange of modeling information, ideas and techniques are encouraged. Additionally, attendees can enjoy and learn from a wide range of seminars, evening discussions
, a day of tours of the International Model Car Builders' Museum, the Museum-benefit Auction, and our Trade Show.
Plans are well underway for the Twenty-Fourth GSL Championship. We will again present the
traditional range of competitive Classes, three days of seminars, a day of Museum tours, the Museum-benefit Auction, the famed Trade Show, four days of renewed and new friendships and shared
experiences, and the Awards Breakfast on Sunday morning, May 5. We will start the Championship and Convention on Thursday morning, May 2, 2013 with a general "welcome" opening session at
10:00 a.m. to hand out the Championship and Convention schedule, acquaint everyone with last-minute details and developments, and talk generally about the event. The Contest Hall will open for
registering models to be entered in competition at 11:00 a.m. Thursday morning. Seminars will start at Noon Thursday and extend through Saturday afternoon, May 4. Judging will start at 4:00 p.m.
occur on Saturday afternoon during which time the Museum-Benefit Auction will be held. The Awards Breakfast will be held on Sunday morning, May 5.
1. No Change in Adult Competitor Registration Fees. We've been able to keep the Adult
Competitor registration at $35. Contestants, or others attending GSL, who are entering a model in competition for another builder, by proxy, must pay the adult registration fee for that person. Please
note that this Registration Fee does notinclude the cost of the Sunday morning Awards Breakfast.
2. Adult Convention Attendees. There will be a $15 per person charge for individuals 17 and older
who: A) will not be competing but will be placing models on display-only models on the Display section and also wish to attend all Convention activities, or B) just wish to participate in all Convention
activities. Note that Convention-only participants are not eligible to receive the special premiums available to adult competitors, and the $15 fee does not cover the cost of the Sunday morning Awards
Breakfast. Adult attendees will not receive the Commemorative Kit, which is reserved for Adult and Junior competitors only. There is no early registration for adult attendees.
3. Registration: Junior Contestants and Attendees: Junior Contestants and Junior Attendees
(those 16 years of age and younger) may register early by downloading the form when it's available, and will not be required to pay any fee. Junior Contestants (but not Junior Convention Attendees)
will receive special premium packages containing tools and other items.
Note that no Junior-Class entrant will pay any entry fee, nor will any young person (who would
qualify as a Junior-Class entrant) who displays his or her models be charged any fee. However, if an entrant 16 years of age or younger wishes to compete in any Adult Class(es), he or she must pay the
$35 Adult Registration fee. Junior Class Contestants and attendees will be required to purchase a ticket if they wish to attend the Awards Breakfast held on Sunday morning, May 5, 2013.
Please remember that there are no more printed GSL documents! GSL no longer prints and
distributes "hard copy" documents because of the very significant costs of doing so. Rather, GSL will
present all information by PDF through this website. Please Participate in "GSL Online!" so you can receive GSL publications and regular updates via the Internet. Here's how it works: Whenever GSL
headquarters is ready to publish a document, you will be notified by an e-mail note to which will be attached a document in Acrobat PDF format. To view an Acrobat document, you need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader, which is a free application available from Adobe Systems. GSL Publication Schedule. Go here
to get your name on our e-mail distribution list.
Class Rules and definitions have changed for three Classes: Common Kit, and Group 13 are
based on new subjects, and we've renamed and redefined "If I Had Styled It" (previously, "If I had Designed It."). Please read these changes carefully:
COMMON KIT: The Common Kit for GSL-XXIV is any release of the Monogram 1958 Thunderbird
hardtop/convertible kit. The entrant may build this kit in any style (e.g., factory stock, custom, NASCAR etc.). Builders may modify the kit body shape, swap parts from any other kit(s), can use any
aftermarket parts (except for complete aftermarket resin bodies), and can use any building materials,
techniques or technologies, subject to the "single builder" rules of the Championship. The intent of this Class is for each entrant to start with the same kit, then display their widest array of individual
creativity, craftsmanship, building skills, and technical innovations.
GROUP 13: This Class is intended to revive and celebrate vintage kits and building styles, to create a
low-key, fun and challenging forum for creative and enthusiastic building, and to celebrate the way models were built in the "good old days."
For GSL-XXIV, the "Group" kit is any release of the AMT 1949 Ford coupe kit. Entries may be built
from any original or re-issue release of the AMT kit, in any style, with the skills and craftsmanship you have today, but using only parts, materials and supplies (except current putties, adhesives and
paints) available 35 years ago (1978 or earlier), including Bare Metal Foil. There are just three additional limitations: no one-off machined or photo-etched parts not fabricated entirely by the
entrant; no aftermarket products not available in 1978 or earlier; and no resin bodies or resin body parts (regardless of who made these resin parts).
Fourth through First Place Awards are selected by popular-vote ballot, and announced during the
Awards Presentation on Sunday morning. No entry in this Class is eligible for any Master Award. A model entered in this Class may not be entered in another Class. A builder may enter any number of
1949 Ford models in this Class.
"IF I HAD STYLED IT": Imagine that you are the styling chief for your favorite foreign or domestic
vehicle manufacturer for any specific model year that you desire. Assume that you alone will make the final decisions about how that vehicle will appear when it goes into production. How might it have
looked and what styling decisions would you have made that differed from the actual production vehicle? What design and mechanical features would your design have had? Models entered in this
Class must generally resemble vehicles produced by the designated manufacturer during the selected year or era. The model cannot replicate any actual concept car. The model must also reflect the
speculative styling, ergonomic, and production considerations and conditions that "might have been" made for the year of the vehicle modeled. Making ONLY mechanical changes (e.g., swapping one
engine for another, adding disc brakes and the like) does not satisfy the intent of this Class and will result in disqualification. Each competitor must present a brief written statement specifying the year
and manufacturer of the vehicle represented, and explaining the styling changes and why those changes were made. Please go here for examples of vehicles that could compete in this Class if the
depicted vehicles represented the original designs of GSL Championship competitors.
Additionally, we have made changes in order to improve the Championship and make participation easier and more convenient:
1. Uniform Research Material Presentation. In the last two Championships, a few competing
models suffered minor damage when research materials came in contact with adjacent models. To protect against this in the future, each contestant must limit his or her research and presentation
materials to a standardized size (what size?).
2. "No Pick-Up Declaration." The entry forms will be modified to make more clear a contestant's
right to declare that their model may NOT be picked up for either judging or photography. Of course, the contestant must be aware that if the judges can't pick up a model that model could be at a
disadvantage because the full work done to the undercarriage/frame cannot be evaluated. A model with this designation will not be photographed by any media.
3. Taller Tables. Table sizes will be standardized in size, and each table will be at a higher level to aid
in viewing the judging. GSL thanks the Town of Newburgh club for its financial and technical support of this much-needed improvement!
4. Standardized Seminar Schedule. Each seminar will start on the hour or the half-hour, and
there will be a standard 30-minute interval between seminars to streamline the presentations.
If you wish to sign up for e-mail notes about GSL-XXIV, please go here, fill out the form, and submit it.
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