CliffB

I signed up back in November, but don't appear to be on the list. So we're actually one step closer to the Bunfight! Cheers

Thanks Jeff. I had a go at making another of these Micromodels last year, but failed miserably. Hopefully I'll have more success this time! Thanks so much for this Dave. I'm going to enjoy re-visiting this convoluted history over the next few weeks - it's a bit too much to absorb in one go ! Thanks for the welcome Mark. I think this should be a great Group Build 👍 Your comments in Enzo's thread actually prompted me to dig this one out, so thank you for that David Cheers

Hi all I'm just finishing this Airfix 'Mauretania'. It's 1/600 scale, but at 40cm long you couldn't really call it small . So cue this alternative - a reproduction 'Micro Models' paper kit. By my reckoning the Mauretania scales out at around 1/2000. For the record, my calculation came out at 1/2114 (just in case things get competitive and we end up comparing the sizes of our whatevers!) It'll be August before I can make a start, but in the meantime here's the background to these reproduction kits. Cheers

It's nice to see a 1/200 Hasegawa 'liner here (I'm a quite a fan), and in my experience the ballast always works OK. Having said that, I've never built a DC-10....

Yes, a stunning looking car!

This should be good. A nice choice!

I'm finding those decal sheets a bit much before breakfast! I'm looking forward to the build though

Complete with white wall tyres. I haven't seen that before in a kit

It looks like we're in for a colourful treat

What a fabulous project Enzo. Good luck and enjoy. Whilst I've never been to Fleetwood, many of your recollections chimed with the seaside holidays that I was having elsewhere Cheers

That's good to hear

A suggestion that I may have floated before, would be to allocate GB v STGB slots, pro-rata to the number of each in the bunfight. So, as an example, we currently have 16 GBs and 6 STGBs in the bunfight - so a split of 73% to 27%. Apportioning next year's 14 available slots using this same ratio would give the GBs 10 slots and the STGBs 4 slots. To my mind this would be much fairer that the existing 50:50 split which always results in most (if not all), of the STGBs sailing through the bunfight, while the GBs face fierce competition and many more disappointments. I think we should share the bunfight pain more equally . Also, what's the rationale behind STGBs being shorter than ordinary GBs? Surely it takes the same amount of time to build a kit, regardless of the type of Group Build that it's entered into? Cheers.

What are the chances? Glad to have you along Malc. Before we can start, I've got to remember where I left the keys......

I'm struggling to find time for Group Builds at the moment, but this is one that I really don't want to miss. My entry will be this (apologies for the small photo size) SMTS (which stands for Scale Model Technical Services), was formed in 1983 and this Elite was one of their early products. It was available as either a kit, or as a factory finished model. Although SMTS are still very active, the Elite has been discontinued. My box has a price label (£15.50), from St Martins Model Shop in London. It shows an 01 telephone number, indicating that the label (at least), pre-dates 1990 when the London STD code changed. I'm pretty confident therefore, that my Elite is old enough to participate . It will be August before I can make a start, but in the meantime here's what's in the box. There are optional parts and decals for road or race cars - I'll be going for the former. Cheers

Thanks Malc - much appreciated.