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rjkplasticmod

Member since
February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, June 24, 2005 2:13 PM

Jay, that's a good looking GB Badge. Looking better all the time.

Regards, Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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JoeRugby

Member since
November 2003
From: Virginia

Posted by JoeRugby on Friday, June 24, 2005 2:56 PM

QUOTE: Joe, that would be a really cool build, I assume 1:72

Yup...1/72, the old Revell Dam Buster kit...got the resin conversion for it recently...

Darson, put me down for a 1/72 "Grand Slam/Tall Boy Lancaster 617 Squadron...And that is it for Group Builds this year, until Black Wolf come with the Aces of the 8th GB (plan to do a dio/vignette for that one! Tongue [:P]

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Check out the WW I Special Interest Group @ http://swannysmodels.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=WW1SIG

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 25, 2005 12:33 AM

So...just thinking..think a P-51 would be ok for this build?

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JoeRugby

Member since
November 2003
From: Virginia

Posted by JoeRugby on Saturday, June 25, 2005 6:18 AM

Sure would...

Check out the WW I Special Interest Group @ http://swannysmodels.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=WW1SIG

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Saturday, June 25, 2005 9:13 AM

Nick a P-51 would be perfect for the build.

Jay I really like the map, but it reminds me more of the openting credits to Dads Army than the World at War.

Cheers
Darren

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 25, 2005 1:07 PM

I will most likely be doing a P-51..D?

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 26, 2005 2:03 AM

hello:
wish to join to the party with a JS 2 stalin II

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:26 AM

I will do either the Hase MkVIII Spit with the CMK engine detail kit, or the Acc Min P-51A OOB, unless I can find some P-51A detail kits Big Smile [:D]

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:28 AM

think I'd like to join this with a DML Jagdtiger and an Academy M36 Jackson

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jcheung5150

Member since
January 2005

Posted by jcheung5150 on Sunday, June 26, 2005 1:40 PM

Hi all,
this sounds like it will be a fun GB. count me in as well. since there is 6 months until the start, I'll have plenty of time to decide what to build and to finish up the other GBs.

Jimmy

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bobbaily

Member since
November 2003
From: Nashville, TN area

Posted by bobbaily on Sunday, June 26, 2005 3:37 PM

Sean, just curious-on your P-51A , what decals are you using? I have the Acc. Min. P-51A in my 'to build' stash, but the decals are for the China-Burma-India theater.

Thanks

Bob

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Sunday, June 26, 2005 7:12 PM

Fernando, Geoff & Jimmy welcome to the group build guys. I've put down your builds on the first page, but as we are a fair way out from starting if you change your minds about the build or participating, just let me know.

Jay I sent you two emails on the weekend containing the two parts of the article on conifers. If you didn't get them let me know.

Sean, any thoughts on maybe a Spit with Invasion Stripes, that would look cool.

Cheers
Darren

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:03 PM

Conifers???? kinda reminds me of lupens... (oh I better not start haha)

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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pingtang

Member since
April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Sunday, June 26, 2005 9:42 PM

Don't start on that one Tom Wink [;)]

....I can see where you're headed with that one. Lupens??? Who would want Lupens??? Wink [;)]

-Daniel

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Monday, June 27, 2005 8:07 AM

[b[Bob I haven't done much research on the P-51A as yet, but there has to be something to suit the era.
I was leaning more towards the Spit to be honest, cause I haven't got one in my collection yet.

Darren[/b] A Spit with stripes eh?
Might have to look into that cause it would look extremely cool!!
Do you know of any MkVIII Spits with invasion stripes??

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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jboutin

Member since
December 2004
From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83

Posted by jboutin on Monday, June 27, 2005 9:50 AM

Darren, Got the emails, that does look really easy. Thanks a bunch!

JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -

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bobbaily

Member since
November 2003
From: Nashville, TN area

Posted by bobbaily on Monday, June 27, 2005 9:50 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tweety1

[b[Bob[/b] .......I was leaning more towards the Spit to be honest, cause I haven't got one in my collection yet.

That's always a good reason!

Bob

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:00 AM

Sean, you will mainly see Mk.IX Spits with invasion stripes on. You could use the very tasty Hase Mk.IX and combine it with some Eaglestrike decals.

http://www.eaglestrikeproductions.com/cgi-bin/espdecals.pl?scale=48&setid=059&dbs=eaglestrike&pgs=2&currpg=1&dclimg=es48059

http://www.eaglestrikeproductions.com/cgi-bin/espdecals.pl?scale=48&setid=060&dbs=eaglestrike&pgs=2&currpg=1&dclimg=es48060

Jay, no problems at all.

Cheers
Darren

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:19 AM

Nah, I'll stick too the MkVIII for now.
I plan to get a few more Spits after I reduce my stash pile a bit anyways, so a IX is on the 'to do' list.

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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pingtang

Member since
April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:47 AM

I've seen pics of a Mk.Vb with invasion stripes on it too. It was one that served with the US navy and flew missions over Normandy. There probably were Mk.VIII's with stripes, you just have to find them.

-Daniel

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:56 AM

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Spitfire++MkVIII+

-Sean,dont know if these are real pics,but look at the last 2 pics

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:56 AM

This sounds great! Dno how busy I'll be with study and all that, but put me down anyway! I'll let you know later what I'll be building.
Cheers,
John

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:44 PM

Sean - could find no specific mention of VIII's flying in invasion stripes but one. It was in German so I couldn't tell you the specifics on it... According to the site I found on RAF units in DDay everything BUT the MkVIII flew. (Although the MkVII flew... wierd huh???)

I did find that both my Martlet (Wildcat by that time) and the Avenger flew in support of DDay as well with FAA and the RCAF.

interesting site with lots of info:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/dday/rafu.html

---edit---

just realized that these were the aircraft that actually flew on invasion day, may have been Mk.VIII's afterward.

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:19 PM

Wow,that is an interesting site!Im excited to be in this build!

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:56 AM

We're glad to have you here Nick.

John, welcome to the build mate.

Tom and Sean, the Mk.VIII Spit was produced in 1942 as a stop gap measure until the Mk.IX became available. It was an outstanding success but was basically replaced with frontline UK Squadrons in 1943. It was then exported to Nth Africa, India, Australia etc to replace the Mk.Vc.
The main Spitfire marks to see combat over Normandy and beyond were the Mk.IXs, Mk.XIIs and Mk.IVs.

Cheers
Darren

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pingtang

Member since
April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:58 AM

Sean Here's a Spit Mk.VIII with invasion stripes for you. It's finished in the High altitude day fighter scheme of medium sea-grey upper surfaces over PRU blue underside. Type 'B' roundel on fuselage side and sky-grey code letters.

And here's another interesting Mk.VIII used in Italy during '44. It's a USAAF aircraft from the 31st FG, 309th FS:

Only problem is trying to find decals for them. Hope it gives you some ideas.

-Daniel

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CDNTanker25

Member since
May 2005
From: Playing in the foothills of NY

Posted by CDNTanker25 on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 9:58 PM

I'd love to get in on this one mate! I think I'll build a Panther, the Night fighting one by DML, don't quite know the variant, but I see it at the LHS all the time, so I'll pick one up soon enough and shove it in the closet!

James on the bench: Merkava II With MCRS-20% Merkava IID 75% IDF Magach Batash

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:26 PM

Welcome aboard Patrick, a night fighting Panther sounds like a great idea. I think we're going to get some really cool and varied aircraft and vehicles out of this build.

Cheers
Darren

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:28 AM

Thanks for the info guys Big Smile [:D]

Might have to do a tedious Squadron search to see who and what were involved in the invasion of Germany.
I cannot beleive that VIII's weren't involved, but like alot of things, finding them is the hard part.

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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CDNTanker25

Member since
May 2005
From: Playing in the foothills of NY

Posted by CDNTanker25 on Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:18 PM

thanks bro, glad to be aboard! only thing is, the name's James, not Patrick heh, though that is my middle name!

James on the bench: Merkava II With MCRS-20% Merkava IID 75% IDF Magach Batash

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