I feel like this started when I put my entry and then went back due to the pill! Despite there were, eventually other cases, in similar situation as mine,
Well, I won’t probably add much to this discussion on the rules.
I will admit that I don’t have at my disposition some tools or spaces to work (living in an appartment…), and I also don’t have some types of materials, as local stores with specific stuff for our builds are sometimes hard to find.
Also, I don’t have many of the skills or know-how that many folks here have, and in this case I will refer to specifically to “hand made” contestants and modders all over the forum.
So, some items - such as pills, heatsinks or others, that imply metal work and more tools/conditions, or even big pieces of wood that need to be cut straight - are harder for me to build. This doesn’t mean, however, that rules should change for those categories.
I will need to adapt my ideas if that is the case, as I needed to do in my entry. I felt like it was a build, but it needed to become a modification instead.
Justin’s video, the work of CRX in som many mods and builds, and many other ideas and productions all over the forum show that things can be done, so maybe lowering expectations/requirements about one can do is not the best option.
Whenever I can’t get something done, I will change my building methods or my category.
Being in this contest was something I never thought I would do when I joined BLF. 4 years later, I am doing it, I’m having (stupid) ideas and opening my horizons, and it surely continue that way!
Thanks for all sharing your work! Even when it is a small mod, that opens new perspectives, so thanks!