Mar 10, 2009

Submit your reviews and choose your HG kit for a prize!

by oxandr General Announcements 0 Comment

Hi Everyone! It is absolutely clear (even to me now :) ) that I simply do not have enough time to regularly add new reviews to mechaCENTRAL.com, but I would really like to see this site growing in the number of posts and their quality – and that is why I have decided to ask my readers for help.

In short – I would like to invite your reviews for publishing on mechaCENTRAL.com in exchange for a High Grade kit – something to write a new post about :) !

Let us get to some specifics here.

If you check Google for mechaCENTRAL.com placement in this search query (opens in a new window), you will find this site at the very top. Suppose, you have got a blog, where you write for a number of topics including mecha kits, then an external link to your site form mechaCENTRAL.com would not hurt, right? The same goes for a new starters – get your review published along with a link to your site.

Now, about the High Grade 1/144 BANDAI kits. I think this will be a fair reward for your time and effort. Therefore, I have prepared 6 different boxes up for grabs.

So, what are the conditions?

  1. First and foremost - there will be no place for plagiarism on mechaCENTRAL.com. I will not accept someone else’s work submitted from a stranger and will do everything in my power to stop this from happening – I really do not need any troubles with other people’s resources. This applies to your own works published elsewhere except for your own blog/site. If your review has been already published on your own blog/site then please provide a link to the original.
  2. Please send your submissions written in English to reviews[at]mechacentral.com. I’ll do my best to respond to all your emails in 24 hours.
  3. In some cases I may decide to edit your review a little bit or ask you for some additions – please do not take it as a criticism – we both want the best possible article published here and linking to your site. In any case we will collaborate on every detail until we are all satisfied.
  4. The more pictures, the better – therefore, I would encourage you to send as many pictures as you like – just be mindful of the size. If your article is going over 4 MB with all illustrations then it would be better to upload your pictures somewhere else and let me know where I can get them.
    Yes, I would like to have copies of all your pictures hosted on mechaCENTRAL.com simply because it is more convenient and they will be available even in a situation when your site is down for maintenance.
  5. A link to your blog/site will be placed along with your (nick)name right after the title.
  6. As for the High Grade kits – at this stage there are 6 available up for grabs (all brand new original BANDAI boxes – no bootlegs or cheap fakes). Once you have got 2 of your reviews accepted for publishing on mechaCENTRAL.com (you will be notified by email) you get to choose any, which is still available from the left column (below -  RGM-79, RGM-79G or Gundam Ez8). Should you wish to get a bigger box :) , then submit 3 reviews and chose one from the right (MS-06FS ZAKU IIFS, MS-06S Char’s ZAKU II or RMS-106 HI-ZACK). All you will have to do then is to let me know your address :) :

First Round of Review Prises

I wish everyone good luck and look forward to your comments and emails. I will attempt to keep this going if people seem interested and contribute, so please do not hesitate to ask me questions and give suggestions.

My best regards,
Andrew