Budget Group Build Challenge

Scrapes of material that would normally be discarded from your work place will be allowed as long as it doesn’t and/or can’t lead to your dismissal from said employment.

Gotcha... I'm an electronics type in the Navy and our lab has tons of "discarded" wire, etc, that would normally be dumped....nothing big, just lots of 20/22/24 gauge wire.....

Grandpa works at a....hmmm....Hobby Shop, wonder what they're discarding? It's an RC shop, no plastics.

I promise I won't cheat

This build is SOOOOOOOOO tempting, but I must resist. I just have too much other stuff going on right now.

Come on edog, find a way to fit it in, you know you want to! We haven't set a time frame yet, what to you all want to do?

Hey count me in and to fully make this a challange I am going to use the 1963 1/48 Monogram Spitfire MKII, so it will be more like the old times.


$2.00 per can of paint (Tamiya), so I will use 8 cans of paint which is $16 worth of paint, and the kit was $7, and $2 for a wal Mart craft brush pack. Which is what I use because they are really nice belive it or not and are very cheap with about 20 different sizes, with brushes in it with sizes from fine detail work all the way to a large coating of paint like for and exterior. So total is exactly 25$

So am I in?

Vintage Aircraft, I think you need to work some glue into the budget then your good to go!

Wow I cant belive I forgot glue ok I can take out the color yellow, for the oxygen bottle/s, and replace it with some proweld, $2.00, curtosey of Als Hobby Shop.

Dan,

Let's say we get a lot of 8 aircraft on a popular auction site for 11.00 plus 6.40 s & h. Can I divide the total by 8 and go from there? This IS supposed to be a build on frugality, right?

guess who just scored a couple of free brushes from work. will still need to include one as a purchase for the fine work though.
Greg

ewc2003...looks like your in your kits about $2.00 each to me!

gregers, good job on the brushes, are you still gamefully employed?

Seems to me that every time i make add up my list, it will come out perfectly, and then i will notice i forgot the knife, or the brushes. Every TIme.
Pretty muche everything has fit onto my list, except for the glosscoat and dullcoat.
I have got to find cheaper replacements.
I'll keep looking for cheaper stuff. Its harder than it looks!

Also do We have a start date? If no maybe we could start in the last week of July? I was also thinking to myself, if I have Limited supplies, it will take me less time to build because there will be no detailing. Just my Idea. THat Date might Not work for some others though.

I'm doing the same thing...trying to keep putty and decal solution in the buget. Picked up a Hobby knife out the free pile at a garage sale.

Dan,

Have you ever noticed how similar Micro-Set and vinegar smell? I've used vinegar as a decal setting solution and it worked great. I was using acrylics, didn't bleed through, and the decal settled in over an AV-8B wingtip just fine.... just my

Hmmm...very interesting. I was wondering if there was a common household product I could use as a substitute for the decal solution, I guess this is as good as time as any to experiment.

The last week of July has been suggested as a start, so here goes:

The Official Start Date: July 26th, 2004

I agree with John with limited supplies and accesories it won't take as long to build so:

The Ofiicial End Date: October 31th 2004

How does this sound?

Remember to take the challenge seriously and build the best model you can while still staying within the budget. Have fun!

ANyone know of some good replacements for testors glosscoat and dullcoat? I have only found them in big bottles.

yep, still going and getting paid for whatever it is i am supposed to do whilst i am there, LoL. i have scored a real biggie too but can't use it for this build (cos i ain't including my compressor - even if it was a freebee thought this would be cheating somehow), there was some old boxes and stuff that i was told to throw out, i asked should i look through it first and was told "no just bin it". guess who found a devilbiss spray gun in the pile the rule at work is if its scrap we can have it.... its been used but its in very good condition and i use this type of gun every day and can get the spray quite fine.(its going to come in handy when i build my B52 me thinks )
Greg

Count me in. I have the kit I ( Mig 37 Ferret € 4.99) I just have to price the other stuff I'm going to need. I'll let you know and I try to post pics


James

OK. Here we go
Kit €4.99
MM Black €2.00
MM I/Green €2.00
MM White €2.00
Game work shop Gun metal €2.00
Liquid Glue €1.75
Brush x 2 €1.50 (from a kids painting set)
4 way File €2.50 (girlfriend donated it)
Grand total €20.24, as of 7 July 2004 $25.00 was equal to €20.34.
I know I have forgot to factor in the price of a knife but because I work in a hospital I can get a scalpel when I need one.

I'll keep ya posted

got me some freebee thinners from errrrr.... somewhere i'll re-calculate my total later and let you know what i come up with.
Greg

Guys,

It can be done.

I had this 1/72 A-37B I got for 6 bucks at the LHS. A spray can of Gunship Gray, and a pack of military flats in the 1/4 oz bottles, and a 12 pack of Testor's acrylics in these little plastic "buckets" and was out the door for under $18.00. I used acrylics, because I can use alcohol as a brush cleaner. For decal setting, I used Future. It works great and isn't costly, since I have hardwood floors . I brushed Future on after bombing the model in Gunship Gray, and it worked really well to give a satin sheen to it. Now to figure out a cheap dullcoat.

Anyhoo, here's a shot of the decals on the tail, so you can see how the Future works. It eliminates almost all the silvering (the decals were pretty crappy) and will allow the decals to conform really well. Gotta be quick though, the Future gets tacky really quick. After the decals set, I'm gonna brush another coat of Future, then weather (with the thinner sludge), and dullcoat. We'll see. By the way, this is just a test, I don't know what I'll do for the challenge...

I will be ordering my Sherman today. I think I have got everything on my list to fit, I'll have to double check.

Alright, its in the mail!

Darn, Out of Stock, So i have to wait an extra 4-6 days! I was also able to aquire a small bottle of future on greatmodels. Now to find a small bottle of dullcoat.

BUDGET TIP BUDGET TIP BUDGET TIP BUDGET TIP BUDGET TIP

Mix 8 parts water to 1 part vinegar.... voila Micro-Set. I kid you not. So now there's a common solution (pun intended) to that bottle of Micro-Set. Micro Sol? That's a little trickier, since it has something in it to melt the plastic... But hey, around here, that's $2.50 I just saved myself.

Now for the next money saving chore: Dullcoat... Will post when I figure out how to do that....

QUOTE: Originally posted by ewc2003 Now for the next money saving chore: Dullcoat... Will post when I figure out how to do that....

About that dullcoat, I'm curious if anyone has tried hairspray for a dullcoat yet, haven't tried it on a model yet, but I remember that my friends and I were playing with a can of hairspray when we were children and we used on a mirror, which turned "frosty".

Ofcourse, I have no idea on how the paint will react to it.
These days, I usually don't have hairspray around the house, since I don't need it anymore

I wouldnt do it this way cause I think its cheating but what if it was a kit you'd won at a club faffle? I like this challenge and if I can get a few of my other GB's done I might try it.

Hey all I have some good news and some bad news. First the good news Even though the build has not officially started yet I have finished my Spitfire. Now the bad news it has now been turned into a IL-22A Stinson by my imagination. I kinda made a new type of aircraft with it when I couldnt fit the wings on right without putty. I could post some pics once I paint on the insignias but I hope this does not mean that I am out of the build.

See Ya

Vintage Aircraft

P.S. If you want a full stopry into what happed with this model goe to the aircraft forum and read Americas new torpedo aircraft, from 60 years ago.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! They told me I had to wait 4-6 extra days. now it says "expected 7/27"
Owell, I am sur it will be worth it.

In other news I have found some crazy glue in a droor. Thats a good find for me. Now to see if wood puuty will work.

We're getting close to the "official" start day of July 26th and wanted to let everyone know I haven't forgotten. Have my supplies and kit ready. I'm off for the weekend (going gold mining) but will post my list with pictures when I get back Sunday evening or Monday morning.

Is everyone ready for the challenge?