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.

I have to disagree Tim. There are plenty of electoral systems that are based on 'transferable votes'. For example, you have a first round of voting, the weakest candidates drop out, then you vote again etc. This is in effect what the current Bunfight voting methodology provides. As someone who favours relatively niche subjects, my preferred GBs rarely get through the Bunfight. I appreciate being able to transfer my votes to other GBs when it becomes clear that my first choices aren't going to succeed.

Hi all. I'm building a little Heller 1987 McLaren MP4/3 at moment, which includes 'Goodyear Eagle' decals for the tyre walls. Each tyre has two sets of decals - one for the inner tyre wall and one for the outer. My question is how should these two sets of decals be positioned relative to each other? I'm assuming that in reality the names were painted on to the tyres, but were the two sets applied with reference to each other (so that, for example, the name 'Goodyear' appears at the same position on the circumference on both sides of the tyre) - or were they just applied randomly? I hope that's clear and that someone can help please. Many thanks.

What an attractive subject, Dennis

That's looking good and I'm feeling inspired to break out my 1/43 Heller MP4/3! It's a very different kit to yours, but has the same decal limitations - perfectly OK for some circuits (I believe), but not for others Cheers

Yes please V-P. I'm assuming a Ford Capri would be OK? Cheers

This definitely does look like an improvement over the old FROG kit. What a nice project 👍

Mine too

Absolutely gorgeous!

Your skilful paintwork has transformed this model. Congratulations!

Another beauty from you Adrian (and it's so much prettier than the Hawk Major).