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No After Market GB for 2015

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No After Market GB for 2015
Posted by ajd3530 on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:49 PM
I had this posted up on the Aircraft forum, and had comletely forgotten to put it up here for you armor guys!

The spirt of this GB would be to see what the modeler can do with their own skills and materials, as opposed to the help of the CNC machine at Eduard or what not.

Below are rules that I copied and pasted from the aircraft forum to save time from typing!



I have been giving it some thought, and I figured it would be fun to have a GB with out all the fancy after market add ons. Just good 'ol skill, with alittle wire and strip styrene, so to speak. Here are basic ground rules, although there is roon for variation.

1. Any scale, any subject.

2. NO AFTER MARKET PARTS!!!! That means no extra PE. No resin bits. No AM injection parts like wheels, props, ect.

3. Scratch building new/replacement parts is acceptable, though, and encouraged!

4. After market decals ARE allowed.

5. Start date Jan. 1st 2015, probably running 8-9 months. But that is up for discussion.

Now a grey area I would like to discuss with participants are the very fancy kits, say like an Eduard Profipack, ProModeler and what not that have PE and bits out of the box. Opinions? Interest? Lets hear it. Looking foward to seeing what all can be done!
  • Member since
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  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:10 PM

I was in one of them on Armorama, I would be up for one here next year for sure.Your rules would depend on if you made it a" Out of box only", then Dragon or Eduard type kits would qualify, But if you wanted no AM at all then that would be a different story.That would kind of limit it a bit.If you wanted to build a Dragon or Eduard would you have to leave of the resin and metal parts ? Even Tamiya kits has a few PE pieces.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:12 PM

There's also the issue of kit bashing. While not AM, many armor modelers grab a few choice bits from another kit to add to their model. For instance, in the Orphaned Armor GB, I'm building the old Monogram M48A2 and added parts to convert it into a West German M48A2GA2. It required a new gun tube, cupola, and some German style parts like tools and grenade launchers from another kit (Leopard).

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  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:49 PM

sure read that title wrong the first time. i rarely add am to armor. so this works for me. are crossovers allowed?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:52 PM

Tojo72

I was in one of them on Armorama, I would be up for one here next year for sure.Your rules would depend on if you made it a" Out of box only", then Dragon or Eduard type kits would qualify, But if you wanted no AM at all then that would be a different story.That would kind of limit it a bit.If you wanted to build a Dragon or Eduard would you have to leave of the resin and metal parts ? Even Tamiya kits has a few PE pieces.

would probably have to use older kits for that. even my dragon  1/72 JAGDTIGER has pe grills. i have enough older kits that i want to build it wouldn't be a problem.

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Posted by the doog on Friday, October 17, 2014 8:40 AM

Make it even more interesting:  decree that you must replace any included PE or resin parts with scratchbuilt styrene parts. THEN you'd have a challenge.

  • Member since
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  • From: Dripping Springs, TX, USA
Posted by RBaer on Monday, October 20, 2014 3:41 PM

Why not a "styrene only" GB, no brass, no resin, no white metal. It might limit what kits would be eligible, but it has the potential to be interesting.....

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