Hello everyone,
After discussing it in both the Aircraft and Armor forums, it seems there is significant interest in this subject to start a Group Build. The guidelines will be as follows:
- Open to Aircraft and Armor, all scales
- Unstarted or barely started kits only (this is negotiable if you have a qualifying kit that you've already started)
- Any aftermarket or scratchbuilding allowed
- Subject must be a vehicle or aircraft used in the Northern and western desert campigns (Lybia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, 1940-1943), or the Eastern desert campaign (Sudan, British Somaliand, Kenya, Eritrea, Italian Somaliand, and Ethiopia, 1940-1941). Note that this Group Build does not include the Italian campaign.
- Timeframe: December 9, 2007 to May 13, 2008. Incidentally my badges all say December 12,
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but we will begin the 9th anyway. (December 9, 1940 was the date Operation Compass was launched, escalating the hostilities in Africa to full-blown war. May 13, 1943 was the date Axis forces surrendered.)
- Badges: There are six different badges for this GB, one for each major nation involved. You may claim the appropriate badge at the start of the GB, but may not use the badge with the campaign medal until your build is completed. This way, everyone has something to show for participation, but those who finish get a special reward.
The idea here is not necessarily to collect as many badges as possible, but to display which nationality of models you built (and if you finished or not)
Germany:
Italy:
England/Commonwealth:
United States:
Poland:
France:
Remember, you can't claim the badge with the campaign medal until you are finished!![Wink [;)]](/emoticons/icon_smile_wink.gif)
I would request that you upload these badges to your own photobucket account so my bandwidth isn't used up.
There were a lot of if's and maybe's in the other threads, hence why I have not copied the entries from them. It would be appreciated if you would PM me your entries, it's easier to keep everything straight that way. Please include kit and scale.
Participants:
Hermesminiatures - Dragon 1/35 British Sherman Mk. III & US M2 Halftrack
espins1 - Tamiya 1/35 Panzer II Ausf. F
bobbaily - Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk. V (US Markings)
GlueItGood - Tamiya 1/35 SdKfz. 7
razordws - 1/72 Italeri Morris Quad Gun Tractor and 25 PD Gun
ben1227 - Eduard 1/48 BF108 Taifun
DesertRat - Tamiya 1/48 German BF-109E-4/7 Trop
arki30 - AMtech 1/48 US P-40K-5
dostacos (father/son team, 2 of each entry) - US Spitfire, ME 109, M3 Stuart "Honey"
gzt - Polish Spitfire Mk. IX 145 sqn
telsono - 1/35 Criel Italian Semovente 47/32
darson - 1/48 Tamiya German Fiesler FI-156 Storch & 1/48 Tamiya German Panzer III Ausf L
dupes - 1/35 Tamiya German Sd.Kfz.222 & 1/32 Italian Macchi C.202 Folgore
jthurston - 1/35 AFV Club SdKfz 11, Leichte Zugkraftwagen 3t
rjkplasticmod - 1/48 Tamiya Panzer III Ausf.N & Hasegawa 1/48 British Spitfire Mk.Vb
Mark Joyce - 1/48 AMT P-40K (Kittyhawk Mk.III) British 260 SQN
crazygerman - 1/72 Heller German Fi 156
9 Toe Tanker - 1/35 Dragon Panzer III Ausf G
RandW - Tristar 1/35 Panzer 1 Ausf A Sd.Kfz.101
jgeratic1 - Tamiya 1/48 British Sherman II
Townsy11 - Tamiya 1/35 Panzer IV Ausf. D
Leaadas - Tamiya 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109E-4/7
bufflehead - Dragon 1/35 M4A1 Sherman US 1st Armored
some assembly required - Dragon 1/35 Panzer IV Ausf. E
glamdring - 1/35 Dragon PzKpfw IV 3 in 1
Petr V. - 1/48 Tamiya SdKfz 250 "Greif"
Brews - 1/72 Esci Bishop SPG, U-Boat
moose421 - Panzer IV F2
SMJmodeler - 1:35 Tamiya U.S. 2-1/2 ton 6 x 6 Cargo Truck
Paul E. Styrene - Tamiya 1/35 Panzer III Ausf. M/N
saddler - 1/72 Dragon Sherman Mk. III
Happy waiting for a month! (and remember....NO EARLY STARTING!)