Rules and Scoring

Rules 1. The Judge's decision is final. I am the Judge. I make the rules. If you send money by way of an inducement it may well change my decision or the rules. The likelihood of this happening will be proportional to the amount of money sent. 2. No purchase necessary to enter the competition. Although it will definately help you to win, or not win, your choice – see Rule 1. 3. Steamplates employees are not eligible to enter the competiton. Which is fine, because we don't have any….. 4. Entries must be genuinely ugly. Entries must not be staged or specially created like they are on some of those hideous video programmes on TV. The Judge will decide on this matter, see Rules 1 and 2. 5. There aren't really any rules, save this rule. We'll make them up as we go along, Rule 1 overriding. 6. In the event of a tie; You can fight it out amongst yourselves. 7. The lucky winner can choose to accept the value of the prize in cash The value if the prize is -£10, in which case the winner will owe me a tenner... Scoring Points will be awarded for; Ugliness (of the Driving Truck) Non-similar gauge to that of the Loco Driver Discomfort Undressed and unpainted welding, especially beginner's welding where the MIG has run out of gas Paintwork that does not match the loco or anything else on this planet. (No paint at all would score even more highly.) The inclusion of bits of wood, especially if it can be proven that they came out of a skip (Photographic evidence of skip plundering would help). The inclusion (or use of) Car parts, Baked Bean tins, Chicken Mesh, any kind of Plastic or Plasterboard The inclusion of bits of anything that has been liberated from a Kitchen Drawer without Head of Domestic Engineering Dept. (DED) noticing (Proof required, the Judge reserves the right to check your DED) Things that are clearly out of square Lack of storage space for Tools, Coal or Water Plastic wheels, or metal wheels with big lumps missing from the flanges Any other criteria that anyone else can think of To suggest any Rules or Scoring changes Click here