PlaStix

Hi James. If it's one of the very small, very cheap sets, that won't take the overall cost of the project above a tenner (or equivalent thereof in whichever currency ) then yes. As the GB title suggests, we're hopefully going to be building projects/kits that cost less than a tenner. Kind regards, Stix

Hi Thomas. Thank you for signing up. I have added you to the list in the first post. I agree about the cost of kits. Like everything these days, prices always seem to be going up! Sounds like a good range of kits to choose from. Hi Bill. Thank you for signing up. I have added you to our list. To go through your points - yes, second hand kits are more than acceptable and we know it's possible to sometimes get fantastic bargains. But, you are correct, preferably the cheaper end of the bargains for this GB if possible. - prizes and, likewise, gifts, are fine if they have cost Less Than A Tenner to purchase in the first place. Otherwise, as you suggest, they aren't really in the spirit of the GB. Great that you have some kits in mind to build. Now we just need to make sure this GB gets through the bunfight at the end of the year! Kind regards, Stix

Yup!! Afraid so!! I got well into the idea of some of those rather nice, newer, 1/35 AFV kits back in about 2015/6. Then read some reviews and said there were some issues with them and, if I wanted to make the versions I was interested in, certain companies were making suitable correction sets, improvement sets, etc. So I have a wide variety of resin parts, brass shells and photoetch aftermarket sets, some of which have hundreds of small parts! I discovered one of them a while back, when I was hunting through the stash and realized the box was incredibly heavy! On checking, I was horrified and realized I'd probably never pluck up the courage to make them!! Seemed such a good idea at the time!! Watch out in the "for sale" forum, at some point in the future!! Didn't make the same mistake again! Kind regards, Stix (who hasn't bought any aftermarket or even a new kit for a couple of years now...........got plenty in the stash!!) PS.........hence why I'm well in favor of getting this GB into the GB calendar next year!

Hi again Pappy, That's fair enough. I quite understand and I hope you enjoy your builds. Thanks for your reply. Kind regards, Stix

Hi @Pappy Thank you very much for your question. I'm going to refer you to the section of my first post in this GB thread, which I have included above. The whole purpose of this GB is to encourage modellers, of all abilities, to just make a cheap kit..... just for the fun of it. If aftermarket items are included, the overall results could be that modellers build something like a £7.99 kit and then add £50, £60 or more in aftermarket sets. This, in my opinion, goes against the spirit of this GB. I've got some kits with almost £100 worth of aftermarket sets that I purchased to go with them. (Don't ask!!) I suppose, if you can prove that the kit and the aftermarket items you'd like to use, were all purchased for less than £10, that may be okay. But, again, if I can, I would try to persuade you just to make something cheap, if you do want to take part. I know some modellers are including decals from others sets, etc. where it's obvious they'd cost a few pence. If we start allowing aftermarket, even like I mentioned above, some modellers will probably try to stretch the limits. As I said, the spirit of this GB is cheap and cheerful and hopefully to have fun. Kind regards, Stix

Wow! You did well with those! I have added you as number 61 on the list in my first post. Thank you for signing up. Now we just have to get this proposal through the Bunfight at the end of the year! Kind regards, Stix

Hi @Illusive. If it's the Kit roulette/mystery box GB you are after, you can find it via the link below. This Less Than A Tenner GB is about building a kit you own (or purchase) that cost you less then £10 or the equivalent thereof in the currency of the country it was purchased in. Kind regards, Stix

Hi @Pedro52. That's fantastic! And you've got us up to 60 signups!! Thank you. Kind regards. Stix

Hi @Rafwaffe I certainly will do! I count you in at number 59 on the list in my first post. Thank you very much for signing up. Kind regards, Stix

Hi @Scargsy Thank you very much for signing up via PM. With regards your question - with you now on the list at number 58, we almost have double the amount of modelers signed up to get this GB suggestion into the Bunfight twice!! Wonder if that's an option! Kind regards, Stix

Hi Bob. Oh, that's fantastic!! Just the kind of kit I'd hope would appear in this GB! Kind regards, Stix

Hi Richard. Yes, I've got quite a few old Revell kits in the stash, but the ones I've found so far haven't had price stickers on. But I'm pretty sure they'd be suitable. Thank you for signing up. You're on the list at number 57. Kind regards, Stix

Hi @MjwomackExcellent!! Definitely suitable for this proposed GB! Meant to say before, that I'm hoping to build something in your 200 Years of the Railway GB. I have a couple of ideas but I'll need to see what I have stored away already. Kind regards, Stix

Hi @Adam Poultney. I do agree, but the idea is to build something cheap (hopefully cheerful) and small from the stash, or to buy something cheap and small, specially for the GB. I remember when I was first properly getting back into making kits, I had a 'holy grail' kit that I was so impressed by, when I saw reviews of it online! It was Eduard's 1/48 Spitfire Mk.IXc late version Prof-Pack Edition. I think it cost me £27 and I thought that was incredibly expensive at that time. Because of the price, I decided I needed to up my skills before risking making, painting and possibly ruining, such an expensive kit! So before I started on my grail kit, I spent time working up to it on various cheap 1/72nd kits one of which cost me less than a fiver, I think. And I enjoyed building all of those too. Little did I know that I'd be spending much more on some kits, such as Meng's and Dragon's 1/35 AFVs in the future! Plus all the aftermarket goodies I got for other kits too! So it's good just to enjoy building something small and fun, once in a while. Anyway, hopefully you'll be able to find something suitable to build for this GB. Thank you for signing up and I have added you to the list in my first post. Hi @Keeff Hope you manage to find something suitable, either in that stash or when you go shopping! Thank you for signing up. Kind regards, Stix

Hi Bob. Thank you for signing up, You are on the list at number 54. And you've got plenty of time to decide on what kit(s) to make. Kind regards, Stix

As mentioned, I have been checking through a bit of the stash today and these are the ones I have discovered so far: Gravitating towards the two Meng Toon kits at the moment. I would enter them separately but may make a vignette with them. May try and do the Tornado too. Kind regards, Stix

Hi @hakkikt, you are indeed number 50 on the list. Thank you for signing up. Hi @Ravnos, @mike romeo and @Avereda. Thank you for signing up via PM. You are on the list at numbers 51, 52 and 53. I genuinely hope it does, but we’ll have to wait and see in the bunfight at the end of the year. There’s already great competition in the bunfight qualifiers section. I have been looking through the stash and think I have found two or three possible kit candidates for this GB, if it goes ahead. I’ll get some photos taken of them and any others I can find. Anyone else got some possible kits identified, for this GB, if it does go ahead? Kind regards, Stix

Hi Pete. I am hoping to see you still building models next year then!! Thank you for signing up. You are on the list at number 49. Kind regards, Stix

Hi @CanadaMoe. Great to have you here! I have added you to the list in my first post. We only need to get two more sign-ups to have 50!! Kind regards, Stix

Enzo has very kindly moved this thread into the Bunfight section! Thank you to everyone who signed up so quickly! 47 sign-ups in just under two days! Kind regards, Stix

Hi klr. Good to have you here. I have added you to the list. Kind regards, Stix

Hi Ian. It won’t be the same without you, but I won’t try to persuade you to purchase a cheap wheely thing! Others might, but not me! Kind regards, Stix

Yes, I didn’t understand, but if they are now available for less than a tenner, you can still use them. I don’t want you to have to buy more…….unless you really do want them! I’d say use the ones from the stash. Kind regards, Stix

Welcome Hockeyboy and Little H. And that sounds like an excellent plan!! Kind regards, Stix

You can definitely use the ones you already have! Kind regards, Stix