Ray S Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Hello all. I wonder how many times I will change my mind on what I am going to do between now and when we start? Options (so far) Vacform: Contrail Short Singapore III, Avro Bison Resin: Citroen Kegresse P28 by Minitracks, Millicast Rolls Royce A/C 1920 pattern; HMS Monmouth, HMS Good Hope, HMS Victoria, HMS Gloucester (1910), Chorozy Modelbud Martinside Elephant aircraft. I need to do some thinking... All the best, Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mottlemaster Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Looking forward to this G/B and so pleased it got in . Given the 4 month time frame i'm going to try the Grey Matter 1/32 Hs 129 B2 . I will have plenty of time before the start to try and desypher the instructions. Alistair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAG058 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I'm considering playing, never done a group build though and don't really know what it entails? I've got a vac form Fairey Spearfish, however the thought of attempting it frightens the life out if me for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I'm considering playing, never done a group build though and don't really know what it entails? I've got a vac form Fairey Spearfish, however the thought of attempting it frightens the life out if me for some reason. There's actually not that much too it really! We all start our builds together and are meant to finish them on a certain date.....sometimes! Along the way we post a thread on the build showing what we are doing....right or wrong, ask questions if we get stuck....show photos of the nice nurses at the hospital where we are getting our fingers unstuck from super glue...though that's more for the resin crowd! We have some fine/amazing VacForm builders in this GB, they'll be able to give you all the help and advice you need to get you through. The Spearfish looks amazing, don't know that aircraft at all....for a moment I thought it may have been a bi-plane...that in VacForm would be a worry! So come and join the fun, will look forward to seeing it build....what scale is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedman Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I'm in with Anigrand Craftswork's 1/144 Lockheed Have Blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomjw Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Every time I engage in a new build, I surprise myself and learn a load of new skills. I will confidently butcher a perfectly good injection moulded kit to fit a resin cockpit or some etched nickel silver flaps and slats. This GB, however is completely different. I am going to throw myself right outside my comfort zone and do one or both of the following:- Rareplanes Beech C-45 Vacform; Aconcagua Shorts Tucano T Mk.1 Resin kit. I've never used even a vacform canopy, never mind a full kit; and I've never build a fully resin kit. Do you know what? I can't wait. Cheers, Tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Hi Tom Good luck with the Rareplanes vacform, I have some contrail vacform seaplanes, or might go for a planet Luft 46 resin kit. I am also yet to build either vacform or resin so we can learn together ! Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAG058 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Cheers trickyrich. Hopefully I'll be counting myself in then. It's a 1/72 Contrail vac form kit. I wanted another Fairey to add to the collection and this was the only Spearfish I could find. It will be my first vac form so the GB sounds like it will be the kick up the rear end I need to get through it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 it's a cool looking aircraft, I would build one if there was a resin version have decided on what i'm building now...and it's not in the list! Just got a Warriors Models 1/48 AMX A-1, in resin of course, hopefully do it in Brazilian colour scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbob Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Hello all. I wonder how many times I will change my mind on what I am going to do between now and when we start? I'm with you, Ray, but unless I can't wait (which is possible) it might be the Kiwi Resins (or something like that) 1/48 Percival Mew Gull. Or maybe the ______ 1/48 vac VL Pyry, which is a Finnish trainer that I met at the museum in Helsinki and it was love at first sight. Fortunately my Finnish wife approves of her too bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomjw Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Hi Tom Good luck with the Rareplanes vacform, I have some contrail vacform seaplanes, or might go for a planet Luft 46 resin kit. I am also yet to build either vacform or resin so we can learn together ! Cheers Pat Cheers Pat. I'll look forward to that. Tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwaterous Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 I've picked up a couple of vacs. Rare plane tucano- looks nice Rare plane IA-58- comes sans decals, anybody know where I could source some? K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 I've picked up a couple of vacs. Rare plane tucano- looks nice Rare plane IA-58- comes sans decals, anybody know where I could source some? K I know the IA58 very well.....have the same one in the box of doom! decals.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aztec-Decals-1-72-WAR-FOR-THE-FALKLANDS-MALVINAS-Britian-Argentina-/191257253538?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item2c87d216a2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 I'm in on this one - not sure yet but it will be resin 1/72 armour. I have loads of candidates in the stash. Will have a dig around over Xmas and choose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I've got several possible contenders for this, but most of them also qualify for the Sci Fi GB, so I'll have a go at something else a bit weird I picked up at Telford this year... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 That is a seriously awesome vehicle! Looking forward to seeing you start on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonehammer Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Does the 25% rule apply? I have a few vacs with the parts cleaned up. Some from MPM with the detail bits injected, a few from Karo As with the details cast in resin. If the former are a no-no b/c of the plastic, I may enter the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Almost certainly I will be entering with an Aeropoxy resin Fox Moth. I would really like to do a vacform too, but time may be tight with everything else that I need/want to do this year. The simplest/quickest vacform in my stash is probably a 1/144 Ha.139B. I actually quite fancy building it too (which always helps!). Looking forward to it. Cliff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rogers Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Probably looking at doing a Planet Models Seafire 45 in 1/48th, or a Vacform Swift also in 1/48th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 This looks like a great chance for a vacform stash reduction I have been meaning to do for ages, the trouble is how do you value them ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hgbn Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Have a Airmodel Bell 47J I want to build for this GB naturally in RDAF colours, depending on the amount of donor spare parts allowed to complete it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewE Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Looking forward to this GB next year more than any other. I was going to do an Accurate Armour Scammell R100 and 7.2 inch Howitzer but because the figure GB did not pass the vote I will now be doing that for the Achtung Panzer! GB and moving the figures to this one. I also want to do a Langton Miniatures 1/300 cutter from about 1805. This has a resin hull, white metal fittings and masts and brass sails. I shll probably replace the brass sails as they are are very stiff and difficult to form into a natural sail shape. Cutters like this were used by the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars. After the Battle of Trafalgar a cutter, HMS Entreprenante, carried news of the battle to Lisbon to forward to the admiralty. News of the battle was also carried direct to England by a schooner, HMS Pickle, and although it was close it was the dispatches aboard HMS Pickle that arrived in London first. The two figures I have lined up at the moment are both 120mm Napoleonic ones. The first is an all metal figure from DF Grieve in 100mm scale (although it is nearer to 120mm in reality) of a trooper of the 1st Life Guards 1815. With the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo falling within the GB timescale on 18th June I shall be aiming to finish this one by then. The second one is Royal Navy Lieutenant from 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. This is a Victory Miniatures figure sculpted by Maurice Corry. Thiefigure is a mix of resin and white metal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackG Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Andrew, I like your idea of entering this GB with figure models. I'm considering the possibility of doing that as well. regards, Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rogers Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Those figures look great. Figures are an area I'd like to explore a bit more really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Does the 25% rule apply? I have a few vacs with the parts cleaned up. Some from MPM with the detail bits injected, a few from Karo As with the details cast in resin. If the former are a no-no b/c of the plastic, I may enter the latter. Yeap the 25% rule does apply as always, with VacFrom models, just cutting the major pieces out is fine....thats the easy bit! Even cleaning up bits isn't a problem, it may be time consuming but there is always more to do on a VacForm model. Ok if the model came with small bits made of injected moulded plastic then that will be ok. Some of the fiddly bit are sometimes better to be made from injection moulded plastic, as long as it's not major bits or masses of little bits! Take a photo if you are a bit unsure, but it sounds ok. Looking forward to this GB next year more than any other. I was going to do an Accurate Armour Scammell R100 and 7.2 inch Howitzer but because the figure GB did not pass the vote I will now be doing that for the Achtung Panzer! GB and moving the figures to this one. I also want to do a Langton Miniatures 1/300 cutter from about 1805. This has a resin hull, white metal fittings and masts and brass sails. I shll probably replace the brass sails as they are are very stiff and difficult to form into a natural sail shape. Cutters like this were used by the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars. After the Battle of Trafalgar a cutter, HMS Entreprenante, carried news of the battle to Lisbon to forward to the admiralty. News of the battle was also carried direct to England by a schooner, HMS Pickle, and although it was close it was the dispatches aboard HMS Pickle that arrived in London first. The two figures I have lined up at the moment are both 120mm Napoleonic ones. The first is an all metal figure from DF Grieve in 100mm scale (although it is nearer to 120mm in reality) of a trooper of the 1st Life Guards 1815. With the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo falling within the GB timescale on 18th June I shall be aiming to finish this one by then. The second one is Royal Navy Lieutenant from 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. This is a Victory Miniatures figure sculpted by Maurice Corry. Thiefigure is a mix of resin and white metal. WOW, what some amazing choices you have!!! This is really what this build is about, showing some of the amazing stuff that is out there! If you have the time it would be fantastic to see all these built, the sailing ship and figures especially! Please let those who missed out of the Figure building GB that they are more than welcome to bring their non-injection moulded figurines along to this GB. Looking over what people are planning to build, this has the makings of being a truly amazing GB!! Well done everyone and welcome! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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