Ozzy Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Pop me down, I fancy building one of those new Kinetic Harriers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackroadkill Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Oooh, this could be fun.... The Kinetic Pucara would be very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ-WobblyHands Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Add me to the list ... though taking Brian Hanrahan's words - "I counted them all out and counted them all back" . Currently I do not have anything in the stash that is suitable - plenty of time to rectify that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellzy Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Hi Enzo 2020 sounds good to me, put my name down please, Sea Harrier or a GR3, I think . Cheers Les 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Huge thanks to @mike c for the Matchbox decals, I'm in with this project. Chinook Bravo November. I'd built the Matchbox Chinook previously - destroyed during a house move. That one was BN, but only because it was 18 Sqdn - and I flew in an 18 Sqdn Wessex on ATC camp. I'd realised this was the sole surviving Chinook, but not the full story. Since then I've seen all the documentaries about this aircraft, only really taking an interest when Mike Brewer was aboard BN for an episode of Frontline Battle Machines. This was a casevac mission in Afghanistan, and BN was hit, the pilot Flight Lieutenant Ian Fortune injured - but flew on, subsequently receiving the aircraft's 4th DFC medal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfoot Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Count me in. I don’t really do wings or floaty things so I’m going to go with a scimitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 I would like to take part as well, it would seem rude not to really. Subject will be decided at the last minute! cheers, Pappy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravnos Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I've got a Vulcan and a Victor I was planning on building together in their Black Buck colours, if I havent built them already by then I'll enter join in with them 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob S Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Next year - good. Timespan - good. Lots of Subjects - good. All good but will still need a miracle to take part let alone finish something but sign me up anyway please and I’ll make a formal request for said miracle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnoldAmbrose Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Gidday, can you get miracles on e-bay? 😁 Regards, Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 If I may, I’ll post a recent ‘Cold War’ query about Canberra PR.9’s here as I suspect this GB will be filled with all manner of knowledgeable Falklands War modellers. If you are able to contribute, could you please leave your comments in the dedicated thread. Cheers, thanks and regards.. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 I think I ought to go in for this GB. I have 1/72 Skyhawk, Mirage(s), a Sea King and Wessex(s), and a 1/48 Mirage, 1/48 Sea King plus a 1/48 Lynx, but need the backdate set for that. Also just remembered a couple of old Aeroclub 1/144 Neptunes! Spoilt for choice really. Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2996 Victor Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Hi Enzo, I'd like to be included, too, if I may? I was only 12 at the time and we were on holiday in (the then) Yugoslavia when the Task Force was liberating the Islands - all the British nationals staying in the hotel cheered like mad when the news reported the Argentine surrender. We were all so proud of our boys and girls down there. I must dig out my scrap book sometime I'm picking up the new Airfix Vulcan from my LMS this week: not sure if its even suitable - I know b-all about jets! So there's possibly that, or a Sea Harrier, or who knows what else! Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 9/19/2020 at 12:14 PM, Enzo Matrix said: The GB will commence on 2 April 2022. The end date is 24 July 2022. The end date has no historical significance. I just didn't want a GB that would only last for 10 weeks. Did you mean you DID want it to last for only ten weeks, because that's about ten weeks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 On 01/07/2021 at 01:43, drdjp11 said: Did you mean you DID want it to last for only ten weeks, because that's about ten weeks... 113 days by my reckoning. That's sixteen weeks. Well... so my spreadsheet tells me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 Just so people know, the new tool Vulcan in the first box doesn't have parts for the Black Buck aircraft, but it does have the locating holes to drill to add them. I can only assume Airfix are planning a second box next year for the Falklands War anniversary. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 @Adam Poultney In your opinion, do you think the Skybolt pylons that are included in Airfix’s 1983 kit would fit this new one? I think Airfix would be mad not to have a Falklands boxing on the shelves before May 2022, however having two boxes of the same plastic out within 12 months of it’s first release is not a typical marketing strategy from Airfix. Cheers.. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 3 minutes ago, Rabbit Leader said: @Adam Poultney In your opinion, do you think the Skybolt pylons that are included in Airfix’s 1983 kit would fit this new one? I think Airfix would be mad not to have a Falklands boxing on the shelves before May 2022, however having two boxes of the same plastic out within 12 months of it’s first release is not a typical marketing strategy from Airfix. Cheers.. Dave I have no idea but I have a set lying around I could investigate tomorrow if I can find them. By the way, Black Buck pylons are different to the Skybolt pylons equipped to XH537 and XH538, they only used the same blisters out of convinience. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 26 minutes ago, Rabbit Leader said: I think Airfix would be mad not to have a Falklands boxing on the shelves before May 2022, however having two boxes of the same plastic out within 12 months of it’s first release is not a typical marketing strategy from Airfix. Remember that this was originally made for November 2020, that gives 17 months, almost a year and a half, to the second box. I suspect that the originally planned the second box for the Falklands anniversary, and in their position I would stick with that date despite the delay, especially if overall production of this version is less due to the disruption. Also, I just remembered where I put those pylons, yes it will fit, with a bit of a gap but that's fixable. The larger problem though is that there are no shrike missiles, the rack for the missiles or the additional ECM pod (although the pod I think could be aquired from kits of other aircraft, don't ask which ones because I have no idea), you'd be able to do XM607 or XM612 with just the ECM pod. You will of course need to remove the actual blisters themselves as they were only covers for the mounting points, except the coolant blister which should stay. Reference photos from XM598 on 02/06/2021. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdjp11 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 3 hours ago, Enzo Matrix said: 113 days by my reckoning. That's sixteen weeks. Well... so my spreadsheet tells me. Ugh, you're right - sorry - I skipped a month in my head here - 16 weeks is a pretty decent timeframe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellzy Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 I'm in Harrier GR 3 l think wellzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneck Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 I travelled down, and back, on Canberra and have wanted to do a 1:350 scratchbuild of the Great White Whale for a long time, this could be my opportunity. still on board in Bomb Alley; so it is one subject I could do, although there are lots of other subjects to choose from. Plus, if @JOCKNEY has signed up for this then I shall have to! cheers, Mike 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Possibly Apocryphal Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 I could definitely use this as a KUTA build. I have an AFV Club Scimitar that's well over 20% completed, probably about 80-90% that I really ought to get finished one day. Obviously because of how much I've done to it, it's ineligible, but I haven't started on the figures yet, so they would be my GB subject - two Blues & Royals crewman, and four Royal Marines, which would all be made from whatever plastic figures I can find in suitable poses, with all the detail Dremeled off and new uniforms sculpted from epoxy putty. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLC1966 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 On 9/19/2020 at 8:17 PM, Wez said: Yes I'm in! Spent more of my life in the God forsaken place not to. Five flipping tours! If you've been there, you'll know it as the World's End! Five, you were a really naughty boy, I thought three tours for an even 12 months down there marked me as a bad'un. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony G Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 On 20/09/2020 at 12:34, ArnoldAmbrose said: Gidday, I have an Airfix 'Falklands Set' of three warships. Would one of them be appropriate? 🤔😁 I'm usually into WW2 vintage builds but I don't think it would hurt me to go a little more modern. I was thinking of raiding the set for the 'Cats and Dogs' GB and/or the 'Birds and Bees' GB but I'm sure one would be suitable here. And Enzo, what's the point of "Having the Power" if you can't throw it about sometimes. 😀 Regards, Jeff. I hope the contents of the Airfix 1/600 Falklands Warships set is more authentic than the box lid as not one of the ships took part in the Falklands conflict Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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