Abrams GB II Feeler

I have an Abrams in my "to do" pile, but I'm currently working on a Stalin and a couple of pine car derby kits with my son.

Could I finish the one I didn't finish on the first GB?

Is there an emoticon for bashful sarcasm?

Rob, would love to have you aboard if you can make it! RBaer, of course you can!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

I'm in, then! It would be good motivation to finally finish, plus I started another one way back when the first GB was going......

I have a couple of 1/72 Abrams kits I've been wanting to build.....

I'm just tidying up a USMC M1A1 w/ mine plow but I still have a Trumpeter 5 in' 1 I'm planning on building as a M1 Panther II, so I might be able to be pursuaded. I still have the rest of my current M1, a 1/5 R.E. Lee, JP Velociraptor, 2010 Corvette to get out of the way and I'm still signed up for 1943 and Operation Overlord GB's as well as the Niel Armstrong GB that starts in July so I would vote on a later start date personally.

Earnest, Corvettemike and Terry  -- it's great to see this much interest! I think we have the makings of an excellent GB here, there's enough projects mooted so far to justify getting a build going. CM brings up committments and schedules, which is always a major factor, I know I have way more on my plate than is good, but that's really always the case... How do others feel about timing? We're well through February, would a mid-year start be a good idea? Or a bad one, given that it would be summer in the northern hemisphere by then?

Let me know yall's thinkin' on that score?

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Thanks, Terry. Okay, that's a vote for a midyear start. Corvettemike, how does that sit for you? And midyear to end of year, or midyear to midyear?

Cheers, Mike/TB379

I like the midyear to midyear since I'm a slow builder. I should be done with both of my current projects by mid March or April so that would work for me.

I'd love to do another, I've learned a lot about them since my build last year.  Any time over the summer would be cool for me, that's really the only time we get decent painting weather 'round here.

I've been wanting to get the new tamiya kit with the tuskII add ons this would be a good reason to go get it lol

TBolt Mike, I'm up for a mid-year start!  Should be done with most of my other projects by then.

The Panther II being all new tooling depends on whether you got the Dragon (all new) or Trumpeter (old with some new bits) kit. Dragon's is better, but I got the Trumpeter one real cheap. Dragon gives you an accurate M1IP upper hull whereas Trumpeter gives you their old M1A1/A2 hull with some (not all) of the necessary cosmetic parts to make it into an M1IP.

Sounds like it'll be a good looking model whichever way, and I look forward to seeing it go together.

Cheers, Mike/TB379

I've got the mostly completed Tamiya kit from the last GB, and a basic hull and turret together of an Acad/Trumpeter bash.

I think I could do a mid-year start easy enough......

If you'd like to finish the beast on this go round, you're more than welcome!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

I currently have 3 kits in my stash, this would give me an excuse to start one of em,

We're getting a good armoured spearhead together!

M/TB379

I have the Trumpeter multi kit and an old AMT that need to be built, so count me in.

Jim

Marvelous, Jim, we have a great lineup of projects here!

Mike/TB379

Hi Terry -- the outlook is to launch Abrams II at midyear and go for twelve months, so it's definitely on! I'll also launch Have Gun Will Travel II and run it back to back for mobile artillery fans...

Cheers, Mike/TB379

BTW, I LOVE your avatar...

M

Thunderbolt379

Hi Terry -- the outlook is to launch Abrams II at midyear and go for twelve months, so it's definitely on! I'll also launch Have Gun Will Travel II and run it back to back for mobile artillery fans...

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Wouldn't that be HGWT III?

It seems like I have been building SP Arty for many years now.