CliffB Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 I floated this idea back in 2016, but without much success. As 2018 has been a fallow year for airliner GBs (accepting that a few liners have sneaked in elsewhere ), I thought I might give this one last try. Any subject, civil or military, from the DC-9 lineage. Here are the takers so far. 1. CliffB 2. zebra 3. Romeo Alpha Yankee 4. Graeme H 5. Grandboof 6. rafalbert 7. Skodadriver 8. Jabba There are just two examples in my collection at the moment and I would like an excuse to build some more please! Cheers Cliff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Count me in. There would be plenty of options - 1960s to present day, DC-9, MD-80s, MD-90, 717, even the COMAC ARJ21. Hopefully this will get enough interest but I wonder whether something like a McDonnell Douglas airliners GB (i.e. DC-8 through to MD11) might have a broader appeal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted September 17, 2018 Author Share Posted September 17, 2018 1 hour ago, zebra said: Hopefully this will get enough interest but I wonder whether something like a McDonnell Douglas airliners GB (i.e. DC-8 through to MD11) might have a broader appeal. Thanks zebra. The problem with broadening the scope is that it would lose its status as a 'Single Type' GB. STGB's have a lower headcount threshold and don't need to go through the competitive voting process in November. Last year's successful 737 GB was a Single Type GB and I was hoping that the DC-9 would generate a similar level of support Cheers Cliff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 I'm in, I agree with CLiff, keep it to the DC-9/ MD-80 airframes. I assume the 717 would also be included? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted September 18, 2018 Author Share Posted September 18, 2018 9 hours ago, Romeo Alpha Yankee said: I'm in, I agree with CLiff, keep it to the DC-9/ MD-80 airframes. I assume the 717 would also be included? Thanks Ray Yes, most definitely the 717 would be included (in fact, the Turkmenistan aircraft in my first post is a 717). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Really like that 717 Cliff. I can can see myself wanting to build every variant. Only have 1 in the stash but that can be fixed! Really fancy an MD90. There’s also the unducted fan demonstrator that I saw at Farnborough one year. Fan might be a problem though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted September 18, 2018 Author Share Posted September 18, 2018 7 hours ago, zebra said: Really like that 717 Cliff. I can can see myself wanting to build every variant. Only have 1 in the stash but that can be fixed! Really fancy an MD90. There’s also the unducted fan demonstrator that I saw at Farnborough one year. Fan might be a problem though! Thanks zebra. Yes, I've got grand plans too! I build in 1/200 though, so there are only a limited number of injection moulded variants available from Hasegawa. Fortunately, RetroKits fill in most of the gaps with some nice resin kits - but at a price! My 717 was one of their's, with Draw Decals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 I checked my stash and have a started MD-80, another unstarted and 2 Airfix/MPC DC-9s. Going back to @zebra 's suggestion about including other Douglas Airliners, perhaps a broader Douglas/ McDonnell Douglas GB would be the go, you could include military and civil Douglas products. THere would be much broader interest for the BM community I would think. I am not suggesting this GB would morph into the bigger one, but perhaps food for thought for a 2020 GB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme H Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 OK, I'm definitely in for this one let's see I have about 10 Fly kits of different boxings, 8 Airfix ones left, and an EE 717, and 2 DC9's I think I could manage to get one done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandboof Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Yes Please Cliff Being one that is guilty of sneaking airliners into other GBs Martin H 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skodadriver Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 On 9/16/2018 at 7:24 AM, CliffB said: I floated this idea back in 2016, but without much success. As 2018 has been a fallow year for airliner GBs (accepting that a few liners have sneaked in elsewhere ), I thought I might give this one last try. Don't forget the Boeing 737 STGB which ran from 2/18 until 5/18 I'm pretty sure I indicated interest back in 2016 and I'm certainly up for a DC9/MD80 STGB. According to my Scalemates stash manager I have 11 Airfix DC-9s, 5 Minicraft MD-80s and a PAS B717 so there is plenty to choose from. I'll probably pick up another couple of Minicraft kits while Mel Bromley still has them. I hope there will be enough demand to get it off the ground. I've been toying with starting a thread to see if there is interest in an Airliners IV group build but I wouldn't want to cut across Cliff's thread so let's see how it goes first. On 9/22/2018 at 8:39 AM, Grandboof said: Yes Please Cliff Being one that is guilty of sneaking airliners into other GBs Martin H That's not a matter of guilt, it's a moral obligation! Dave G 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafalbert Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 I have a Fly C-9 if that counts? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 4 hours ago, rafalbert said: I have a Fly C-9 if that counts? Sure does 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 On 9/21/2018 at 10:50 PM, Graeme H said: OK, I'm definitely in for this one On 9/22/2018 at 8:39 AM, Grandboof said: Yes Please Cliff Being one that is guilty of sneaking airliners into other GBs On 9/25/2018 at 8:58 PM, Skodadriver said: I'm pretty sure I indicated interest back in 2016 and I'm certainly up for a DC9/MD80 STGB. According to my Scalemates stash manager I have 11 Airfix DC-9s, 5 Minicraft MD-80s and a PAS B717 so there is plenty to choose from. I'll probably pick up another couple of Minicraft kits while Mel Bromley still has them. 19 hours ago, rafalbert said: I have a Fly C-9 if that counts? Sorry guys, I've been pre-occupied with a troublesome house move and so have been absent from BritModeller for a couple of weeks. Thank you all for your interest and welcome on board Cheers Cliff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Add me to the list please. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted October 5, 2018 Author Share Posted October 5, 2018 On 10/3/2018 at 7:35 PM, Jabba said: Add me to the list please. Thanks Jabba - will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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