While these are very different from one another, they can effectively be mixed within a single project. Contest Quality Do not let the name fool you. Many modelers raise their standard to this level for every project and kit they build, regardless of whether or not it will ever be entered in a contest. A contest quality model is complete is every way . Every single visible detail is complete and done so to the highest possible level of detail.
Nothing is overlooked or left to chance.
A foreground model is visually complete . It is highly detailed, but the selective completion of the details suggest that any missing details are also present. The actual quality of modeling is identical to that of the contest model, it is in the smallest details that a compromise is made to save time. The background model lacks many important details making it suitable only where it will be obscured from view. Short cuts can be taken and construction is made up of a series of compromises.