| Space, Rocket and Missile Category Guidelines |
By Mike Mackowski, July 17, 1999
After much thought, review of prior experiences, and discussion amongst the space modeling community, several revisions were adopted by the Contest Committee for the 1999 National Contest. The following list attempts to summarize the new rules from the basis of subject placement.
Note that obvious items (Apollo, Mir, Mercury-Redstone, etc.) are not listed. This list is intended to help clarify borderline entries.
| Model | Category # | Category | Note | |
| Any Shuttle Orbiter or stack | 600 | Real Space | ||
| Orbiter on 747 | 157, 158 | Civil, Sport, Racing & Airships | ||
| Any real space launcher | 600 | Real Space | ||
| Winged military missiles (Snark, Regulus, Honest John. etc.) |
167 | UAV | New category for 1999 | |
| X-planes | 1. | |||
| X-1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -13, -14, -15, -24, -29, -31 | 127, 128 | Small Jet | ||
| X-18, -19, -22, 28 | 106, 107 | Small Prop | ||
| X-21 | 133, 134 | Medium Jet | ||
| X-25 | 151, 152 | Rotary Wing | ||
| X-7, -10 | 167 | UAV | ||
| X-8, -9, -17, -23, -34, -40 | 600 | Real Space | ||
| X-6, -11, -12, -16, -20, 27, -30, -32, -33, -43 | 1300 | Hypothetical | Clarified: "Other than Sci Fi" | |
| Sanger spaceplane | 1300 | Real Space | ||
| V-2 and military variants | 600 | Real Space | 2. | |
| Manned V-2 (A-9) | 1300 | Hypothetical | ||
| Research V-2 | 600 | Real Space | ||
| VentureStar RLV | 1300 | Hypothetical | ||
| Astronaut in space suit | 305, 306 | Figures | ||
| Lunar rover w/astronauts walking on a moonscape | 935 | Misc. dioramas | Diorama rule | |
| Lunar rover w/astronauts seated in rover on a moonscape | 600 | Real Space | Diorama rule | |
| Apollo LM w/astronauts walking on a moonscape | 935 | Misc. dioramas | Diorama rule | |
| Apollo LM on a moonscape | 600 | Real Space | Unless obviously a diorama | |
| Sounding rockets (Aerobee, etc.) |
600 | Real Space | ||
| Titan ICBM | 600 | Real Space | ||
| Science Fiction Armored Fighting Suits | ||||
| Closed top (no driver visible) | 605 | Sci Fi from Kits | ||
| Open top, human driver | 305, 306 | Figures, Dismounted | ||
| Open top, alien driver | 322 | Figures, Fantasy | ||
NOTES
1. If it never reached hardware (or hasn't yet), it goes in Hypothetical.
2. I proposed defining categories according to markings, but the Committee felt that modeling morphology was a better discriminator, thus V-2s go in Real Space, while a winged missile goes in the new UAV category.
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