Goodness180

Gamera:  Ya i think your right i would probably be better off scratch building it.  Ill have to wait till i get home to check out the link, its blocked here at work.

Sorry, it's just a couple of photos for those who have never seen B5 and have no idea what we're talking about.

Gamera:  Ya i think your right i would probably be better off scratch building it.  Ill have to wait till i get home to check out the link, its blocked here at work.

Here's the Minbari cruiser:

As you can tell it's not the best representation - even for a garage kit. Not sure you wouldn't be better off just scratchbuilding the whole thing.

BTW: This is the starship in question as she's supposed to look:

Minbari Sharlin Class Heavy Cruiser

Konigwolf13

p38, there isnt an offical badge yet, I'll get there in before I post the offical thread. Start date will be Feb 27 (academy's date so im told)

Andrew

ok,, I guess I missread a post,, thought it said there was a badge, and there was a Box with a red X in it.. ,,
Good idea on the Start date...

maybe the badge could have all the trophies in it from the various awards,, Oscar, Golden globe, Screen Actors Guild.. etc.. ??..

You know maybe I'll do the Whitestar for this GB. God only knows the thing has been sitting around long enough...

Thanks for the idea Andrew!

p38, there isnt an offical badge yet, I'll get there in before I post the offical thread. Start date will be Feb 27 (academy's date so im told)

Andrew

yup... i think I'm in.. got Big Bopper's car from Mad Max,, and I've been itching to do ODDBALL's Sherman from Kelly's Heroes..

also.. can somone repost the badge?? its not showing now ??..

Whitestar now they were sexy, bit better than a tropical fish in space

Wouldnt mind a Whitestar and a Romulan D'deridex (similar look/wing shape thing) in the stash.

Andrew

Goodness180

Gamera:

Goodness180: Actually someone did produce a garage kit of the B5 Minbari war cruiser. I got one in my stash, still haven't gotten around to it. The main hull looks pretty good but the fins are somewhat off. No idea who did it as there's no company name on the box or anything. Probably because the thing was totally illegal, no license from Warner Brothers at all. Still if you should decide to do it I'd love to see it. 

Anything I do would probably be some sort of SF subject as well. I've got a pile of Trek, B5, and Doctor Who kits as well as the recent Aoshima Airwolf kit.

 

 

Really??? I would be very interested in seeing a picture of what you got.  Might be able to do a little googling and see where they came from.  I would be very interested in finding a nice B5 kit or a Stargate SG-1 kit and not the stupid death glider kit, i want one of the SGC ships.

I'll see if I can find it, probably buried deep in my stash my now. I remember they called it an 'Angelfish' to avoid the whole copyright issue. I think I picked it up from Monsters in Motion back when B5 was still on the air so we're talking about 15-20 years ago. It came in a plain white box. I also picked up the Whitestar kit - called a 'Shadow Killer' from Warp models in the UK. Not sure if the 'Angelfish' was from Warp or not.

Gamera

Goodness180: Actually someone did produce a garage kit of the B5 Minbari war cruiser. I got one in my stash, still haven't gotten around to it. The main hull looks pretty good but the fins are somewhat off. No idea who did it as there's no company name on the box or anything. Probably because the thing was totally illegal, no license from Warner Brothers at all. Still if you should decide to do it I'd love to see it. 

Anything I do would probably be some sort of SF subject as well. I've got a pile of Trek, B5, and Doctor Who kits as well as the recent Aoshima Airwolf kit.

Really??? I would be very interested in seeing a picture of what you got.  Might be able to do a little googling and see where they came from.  I would be very interested in finding a nice B5 kit or a Stargate SG-1 kit and not the stupid death glider kit, i want one of the SGC ships.

Ok I'll call this one a go'er then. As this was only a feeler thread I'll put up a proper thread mid January with dates etc and PM reminders to those who showed interest.

Andrew

Thank's for the link Aaron

There was some interesting info on the C-123 aircraft and the movie .

I copied this pic into the computer...

I also just came across this one of the nose art....

I'll have a search around Hannants web site at their decals and see if I can find a similar eagle and some type of ball and chain .

                                   John

Apparently my Google-fu was strong tonight, I found this site for the Con-Air C-123

http://www.oldwings.nl/content/con_air/con_air.htm

I was watching North by Northwest the other night , and was thinking the park ranger's station wagon used towards the end of the movie could also be kind of fun to build. 

I'm currently working on a couple of Mach 2 1/72 scale C-123 Providers , there's two more in the stash with another two on order . While I was searching around the net for reference pic's for my current builds , I kept seeing the film promotional image for "Con Air " which star's Nicolas Cage , John Cusack and John Malkovich . I'm not 100% sure if the aircraft was a C-123 Provider and after a quick search around the net I haven't seen a good pic of what the color scheme would have been . Anyone have any additional info on the aircraft , if it turns out to be a C-123 Provider and I can find a good picture of one , I'll jump in......

                                         John

Goodness180: Actually someone did produce a garage kit of the B5 Minbari war cruiser. I got one in my stash, still haven't gotten around to it. The main hull looks pretty good but the fins are somewhat off. No idea who did it as there's no company name on the box or anything. Probably because the thing was totally illegal, no license from Warner Brothers at all. Still if you should decide to do it I'd love to see it. 

Anything I do would probably be some sort of SF subject as well. I've got a pile of Trek, B5, and Doctor Who kits as well as the recent Aoshima Airwolf kit.

I might be interested.  I have allways thought about doing a scratch build of the TV Show Babylon 5, the menbary White Star ships they use in i think season 3 on.  Or doing one of the Space Craft that the SGC uses in the TV show series Stargate SG-1.  If this qualifies I would be in.  But not till later on in march got my own GB going on right now as well.  What are we looking at for a close date????

For simple interest alone I'd say that I am. But I'm just not one to commit too far in advance.

I also like the GB badge although IMHO it really doesn't need the lil Oscar statue too.

If you do get this started I'll definitely sign up.   The first ideas that come to mind are sci-fi subjects, but your "F-5 as MiG" idea from Top Gun has me wondering what would be involved in getting together one of the Mi-24s from Red Dawn.

Andrew: For some reason I was thinking you were starting on January 2011. After looking again since you're starting in March I think I should be free so could you please mark me down?  I'm not sure of what I'd be doing, I've got a pile of stuff in the stash that would qualify.

Also are you going with movies/TV in general or strictly Hollywood? I mean would a subject from a British or Japanese movie/TV series qualify?

I've been wanting to build the Jaguar hearse from Harold & Maude for a long time. I've got the Jag kit and the landau irons for the hearse sides. I'm a bit concerned with time and enthusiasm but I'll go ahead and give it a shot. 

kenjitak

How about the Academy Awards Ceremony date of Feb 27 as the start date? End date maybe the following Academy Award date? How about this for a badge idea?

Sounds good,nice long timeframe,and the badge looks great.Have you posted this in all the other forums like ships,planes,autos,armor,aircraft ? You might generate more interest.

Hi Guys, I'll come and play too!

I've been looking for an excuse to do the Bell 212 out of Matrix. Jet black with a minigun .. alright!

I've also got the Blue Thunder in the stash, but that's been started..

Maybe one of Killgore's Hueys from Apocalyse Now? I've just built the PBR and they'd be good companions.

Or the Bat 21 "O-2".

Oh dear, what have you started,  Andrew?

Graeme.

Love the start and end date (Who watches the academys anyway right?, bonus points for an academy kit LOL).

I like the concept of the badge might change a few things.

Andrew

How about the Academy Awards Ceremony date of Feb 27 as the start date? End date maybe the following Academy Award date? How about this for a badge idea?

Surprised not more people have chimed in like the Scifi Guys(Macross, GundamStar Wars, etc) or the wing guys(Airwolf, Blue Thunder, etc).

OVA covers a lot of real life subjects too.

Well theres been a bit of intrest. If a little more shows up I'd say were on.

Start Date? Gotta be something dramatic/hollywoodish in Febuary or March, any ideas?

I'd be in with an Afrika Korps M48 from the movie 'Patton'.

Might be interested got a "Top Gun - GPZ900 Ninja" in the todo pile.

Movie accurate too.

I was thinking of doing something like this myself, but luckily you have beat me to it! Saves me the work. Seriously, I think it will be very interesting, given the wide range of possible subjects, to see what people come up with. I am definitely interested. how long would the build run?

Ken