Happy last days of OcTRAINber! We hope you are enjoying this month as much as we are. In the last couple of weeks we have seen a lot of great WIPs and even some amazing entries being posted in the Brick Model Railroader Flickr Group. We are again stunned by the amount of creativity that the community has to offer.
However, we also saw several not-yet-finished builds, that look very promising, but might get into trouble finishing before the end of the month. We know this challenge, due to the heavy involvement of Technic and moving parts, is a bit more out of the comfort zone for many builders than the previous two installments of OcTRAINber. In fact, some of us here at BMR (being me) try to ignore all of Technic when it’s possible, so kudos to you all for trying!
So, anyways, long story short: we have decided upon a grace period of two weeks, to make sure all of the current WIP builds will be posted in the respective entry threads. Even though this means OcTRAINber will now end in the middle of November, but hey, space already had their month with this years SHIPtember!
NEW DEADLINE FOR OCTRAINBER:
Novvember 14th, 23:59 PDT!
Please be sure to ONLY post entries in the appropriate thread on our Flickr group. This is the only place where we will look for entries – showing us an entry on social media or elsewhere does not count.
Good luck finishing up those builds!
Thanks! I kinda forgot about my build, I’m going to kick it into high gear!
Are we getting results any time soon?
Working on it as we speak. I communicated the following a couple of hours ago at EB and at our Flickr Page:
Hi all,
Short update from our side. Just like last year it has proven to be a quite busy number of months for me, which means the judging has taken some delays again since coordinating the judging is my ‘task’. We will try to get it done in max 2 weeks, so still before the end of the year. We will keep you updated on this proces as much as possible.
In the same time, I’d also like to ask you guys for some feedback. OcTRAINber has been a succes for three years in a row for us over at BMR, but we are wondering how you actually think about OcTRAINber. What do you guys like about the contest? What are the reasons to participate, or not to participate? What do you guys think could be done better next year? We look forward hearing from you, to make OcTRAINber 2020 even better!