Once Were Warriors-7/1/07-7/31/08

Still Looking

Bud

Please add me to this GB.

I am still looking for a good subject and I will let you know as soon as I do

Bud

Check the 3rd post in the following thread.  It is a perfect example of how to attack this GB.

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paul_toz wrote:

Hi, I've worked out what it is I am going to do. I was looking through my stash list and realised I have an Airfix boxed set of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF). They are 1/72 Spitfire IIa, Hurricane IIc and Lancaster BIII. They are owned and maintained by the RAF and fly at airshows etc every year.  I'll do all 3 as part of this GB. Here's the BBMF website. They currently have 5 Spitfires, 2 Hurricanes, a Lancaster and a Dakota. They also have 2 Chipmunks for training purposes. Paul

Hi,

I've worked out what it is I am going to do. I was looking through my stash list and realised I have an Airfix boxed set of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF). They are 1/72 Spitfire IIa, Hurricane IIc and Lancaster BIII. They are owned and maintained by the RAF and fly at airshows etc every year.  I'll do all 3 as part of this GB.

Here's the BBMF website. They currently have 5 Spitfires, 2 Hurricanes, a Lancaster and a Dakota. They also have 2 Chipmunks for training purposes.

Paul 

Absolutely.  I was thinking the same thing depending what I do.  If I go with either the Stuart or Patton tanks that are within a stone throw of here I am I was going to donate the dio.  Almost put it in the rules... well more of a suggestion.  Can't force someone to give their model away.

Happy to add you to the list... just tell me the name of the artillery piece you paln ot do.  If it don't have wings... well I don't know too much about it...b ut willing to learn

Put me down for a Mustang. I will decide on the markings later. Can anyone confirm that the Airfix 124 scale kit has markings for big beutiful doll in the box? It will either be BBD or Old crow.

BBD will be as flown by Rob Davies.

Old Crow is flown by the Scandanavian Historic flight.

wing_nut wrote:

I am curious about 1 thing.  If that is teh photo you use... How will you do the shirt?  free hand with a brush or a custom decal?

LOL  That's funny.  I just noticed in the photo and had forgotten about the old tires piled up next to it.  Hmmm.... I need to get my hands on some 1/35 tires.......

The fun part is going to be trying to duplicate that hideous pinkish color and all the rust.  I'm looking forward to the challenge however.    I am going to use this as an opportunity to make my first diorama base.  Shouldn't be too hard, just need to simulate gravel and weeds.  I'm going to make the Elefant look as close as possible to how it looks now, including missing gun shield, removed bolts on the superstructure attachment points as well as some battle damage (you can clearly see where a shell hit the front plate on the superstructure).

Great glad to have you. 

OK...any other fence sitters need a limb twisted???????

wing_nut wrote:

So Scott, was that a sort of... kind of... "If you twist my arm and force me to join another group build I might just have to do the Elefant I have a ton of pics of..."   Cause if it was... I'll add you to the roster

Because it doesn't start until middle of next year, and you just twisted my arm ....

count me in! 

So Scott, was that a sort of... kind of...

"If you twist my arm and force me to join another group build I might just have to do the Elefant I have a ton of pics of..."

Cause if it was... I'll add you to the roster

Hmmmm... I'm very tempted to make the Elefant that is rusting away just down the street from the US Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.  Lord knows I have enough reference photos of that beast. 

http://www.espins.info/aberdeen.htm

Interesting idea. I'll do the P.11c on display in Krakow. I'll get the pic sooner or later.

Here is my favorite P51b/c:

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5805370

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5805182

 And heres a photo of the Mustang id like to do:

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5825509

Or this one:

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5855777

Yup you sure can.  I am considering a P-51C from the Tuskegee Airmen.  This is a shot posted by another member, dragonfly, and I want to do this all shiny and sitting in the museum setting.  This plane is also still flying.

I like to plan ahead. It gives me time to clear up other projects and buy in the kits.

Am i allowed to model an airframe that is preserved as a flyer?