BTW, I jumped with a steel pot on m' head at Ft Benning, aged all of 17 years...  And many times later on at Bragg, lol.. I served eight years in before I ever jumped with a K-Pot, lol..  

When I cracked my public storage to move it I found my DUKW. Now mind you I hadn't been in there in about 2 years but I opened it up and found the hull sides have been glued to the bottom but nothing else done to it. Does that disqualify it because it's been started or is it still good to go for this GB?

Good to Go...

Hans von Hammer

BTW, I jumped with a steel pot on m' head at Ft Benning, aged all of 17 years...  And many times later on at Bragg, lol.. I served eight years in before I ever jumped with a K-Pot, lol..  

 Still remember your roster number? I do from there and OSUT... Yikes!

I like this one, I've been wanting to do a US Tank Destroyer. My uncle was in one through the entire European Campaign, and won a Silver Star for his role in the attack on the Bridge at Remagen. Does this fit in here?

~bump~  

Anybody heard from von Hammer recently??

I think he was capture behind enemy lines out of uniform (mit einer jungen Frau!) and thought to be a spy!

btw, I'm with a .....

he hasn't posted since the start of Dec, and his posting was going down before then. I hope he wasn't put off by the little spat a while back. Would be a shame to lose him.

I do recall that he was pretty busy with real life, both home and work at the time. I do hope that all is well with him. He did PM with me a bit at the time of the meltdown, but not since then. I did not get the impression that he was leaving like some did.

Maybe the REAL Mafia made a move on the kingpin of the Monogram Mafia... Have Monogram kits suddenly gotten harder to find???

Wow! I missed something...a meltdown? I heard Manny got booted but didn`t hear anything else happened. I agree Stik, he was super busy remodeling homes or something like that...12 hrs/ 7 days a week. That`s enough to put the kibosh on a lot of extra-caricular activities....

Lets just say it got real tense around here, and the forum is only slowly returning to pre existing levels of activities. But on the good side, some new talent has shown up.

I missed it too, I was wondering why it was so quiet.

You guys should be happy, it blew up over a weekend and I read though some of it but stayed out of it. Crazy stuff....

Gamera

You guys should be happy, it blew up over a weekend and I read though some of it but stayed out of it. Crazy stuff....

...I think most of the fighting threads got deleted, not just locked. But the griping threads are a ways back in the Armor forum, you'll get the idea of what happened. ...the titles say something like "this forum is slow"...

Sorry I already asked to get in on this one. Like they say the mind is the first thing to go

I still hope this GB kicks goes through, any volunteers to take it over?

I wouldn't right off Hans just yet. He was on the site the other day, so he is still around. Maybe he just didn't want to get involved in all this stuff, which to be honest is all old news.

Hans is still around.  Last month he had a blizzard move through his town, he lost power for a while, and I'm pretty sure he's working 7 days a week right now.  I wouldn't worry about him.

Ah, alright thanks for the input!

I've been wanting to build "Pips" Priller's 'Black 13' since I watched "The Longest Day" a couple of months back...

If this build is still a go, count me in...

I'm in. I've been wanting to do the DUKW (Duck) also my Uncles M-10 Tank Destroyer. The Tank Destroyer will be Tamiya's 1/35th scale. And the Duck will be Italeri's, in1/35 scale too.

I sent a message to Hans back at the start of Feb. But he looks like he hasn't been on the site for some time. I hope all is well and nothing to serious keeping him away.

The gist of the message was to ask if he thought he would be able to run the GB, as it would be a real shame if it didn't go ahead. And i asked that if he felt he wouldn't be able to host it, if i could take over the reins.

So in lieu of han's return, and as long as you guys are ok with it, I'd like to host this GB. If Hans does return, of course i will be happy to hand it back over to him.

I would keep the GB rules and badges we already have. I know that since this thread first aired, there's been a little upheaval and some of the people who showed an interest may no longer be around. So to that end, i won't take any of the names already put down. So if your happy for me to take this on and you are still interested , let me know. I will post a GB thread in early May.

I think you have a good plan Bish

It would be a shame if this didn't go ahead, and with many of the new members I think we'd have fresh volunteers for this mission.

On a side note I wonder if anyone has alternate comms with Hans to see if all is ok.  

I know he was haveing computer issues a while back. It would be a real shame to lose him from the site.

On another side note, i noticed you put out a feeler for a Canadian GB. I don't have anything to contribute to that, but i know the canadians contributed a big part to the Normandy landings and if tehres enough interest in your GB, maybe the two could be tied in together.

I was kinda hoping so - you read my mind.  I was leaning towards a Juno beach thing for this so that may be my cross over

I have his email address...I could shoot him a message and see if he answers. I know he was working 7 days a week there for awhile...maybe still.

Bish,

Probably no one better to take the GB over.  I may try to get in on this one (God willing).  A C-47 might be just the ticket!  Just need to find a model.

I'm still interested, and still in if it's going