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OPERATION OVERLORD- 70th Anniversary Group Build

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  • From: Austin, TX
Posted by DoogsATX on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:43 PM

Bish

 

 VanceCrozier:

 

in!

I don't think giving this much lead time is that odd, considering the subject. It's a big # anniversary. After the initial push has happened over the next  little while, you could probably just make sure to add a new post on... 6th of every month?? So it stays active without chewing up too much of the front page space.

Now, the kit to build...

 

 

 

Ye, good idea. Otherwise we will have dozens of pages before it even starts.

I'd recommend this staying around as the "announcement" thread, then starting a separate official GB thread when the time comes.

In for sure. Not 100% settled on what I'll build, but I'm leaning toward the 1/32 MDC Hawker Typhoon I just ordered. One of those planes that just looks right in invasion stripes. Need to check if the markings support it, but perhaps the PCM Spitfire XIV...if I haven't caved and built both by then.

Course, there's also Tasca's M4A1 with the hedgerow cutter...could be a contender as well.

On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

 

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:53 AM

VanceCrozier

in!

I don't think giving this much lead time is that odd, considering the subject. It's a big # anniversary. After the initial push has happened over the next  little while, you could probably just make sure to add a new post on... 6th of every month?? So it stays active without chewing up too much of the front page space.

Now, the kit to build...

 

Ye, good idea. Otherwise we will have dozens of pages before it even starts.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
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  • From: Rothesay, NB Canada
Posted by VanceCrozier on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:49 AM

in!

I don't think giving this much lead time is that odd, considering the subject. It's a big # anniversary. After the initial push has happened over the next  little while, you could probably just make sure to add a new post on... 6th of every month?? So it stays active without chewing up too much of the front page space.

Now, the kit to build...

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:21 AM

I can give you a definate maybe Hans. Sorry but I don't know what I'm doing an hour from now much less a year. Still I've got a pile of American/British/Canadian kits that would work.

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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  • From: Ontario, Canada
Posted by gunner_chris on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 6:53 AM

I'm interested!  Great idea.

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 6:37 AM

O, now this is a neat idea. You are sure you have the dates right this time Wink

Of course, i am in. I have a couple of German armour kits that will fit, but i think i know what i will be building.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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  • From: Nashville, TN area
Posted by bobbaily on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 5:55 AM

Great theme.....Glad to see this one Hans.  I don't recall seeing a 'strictly D-Day' GB since I've been here.

Will try to participate in this one.

Bob

 

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  • From: Iowa
OPERATION OVERLORD- 70th Anniversary Group Build
Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:02 AM

Hey guys and gals... Right now, this is just a place-holder of sorts, but there's a method to my madness..

I wanna get a GB fired up that will begin on 6 JUNE 2013 and end on 6 JUNE 2014...  Giving everyone about a year's heads-up, which is to some, rather mornic, since if any of you got CRS Syndrome like me, you'll likely forget about the thread for a year...

But, I plan on following though, keeping it on the first three pages or so, perhaps... Details will emerge as we get closer to the start date next June.. Like a better GB Title..

There're a few details I can think of right now, but in a nutshell, if it was used near, on, or flew above Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, or Sword Beaches and the surrounding German-held positions on 6 JUNE 44, or the following days until about D+24, it's in... 

Oh yeah.. With a year's head's-up, there shouldn't be a need for cross-overs... Start your kit-hunting early, and set it aside..  Paint some black & white stripes on the box or something  to remind you...

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