Winter Warriors GB 2008

mg42gunner wrote:

...AP tests.

AP TESTS...are you still in high school?!?!  For Love & Rockets if you're turning out the quality of builds at your age G*d help us all!!!  

MG42 - certainly feel free to continue posting your pics in this thread. It's a bit late for the badge, however, and I'm actually working on the end-of-GB wrapup thread as we speak (sitting in my car in the rain mooching some broadband off of the coffee shop in town - heh ) so you probably won't make that.

Gotta go snag some lunch, but I shooooould be able to bang that thread out today. Look for it over in the armor forum.

dupes wrote:

(sitting in my car in the rain mooching some broadband off of the coffee shop in town - heh )

  That's pretty funny dupes!!  I can't help but picture you huddling over a laptop furiously tapping on the keyboard, in a cold damp car parked in a dark alley, rain pounding on the roof, windows wet with interior condensation, and coffee customers sitting inside the shop nice & dry sipping on their java completely oblivious to your...."mooching"!!  hehe!  I LOVE IT!!  

ALRIGHTY then. I've trudged through alllll 43 pages of wintery goodness, and here's what I've put together. I'm hoping this works, so I'm going to do a test-post here before putting it up in the armor forum.

LUFTWOLLER - you moved the pics of your KV-II! If you could pick out your favorite one and re-post it here with a working link, I would LOVE to add you to the completed roster!

JThurston - your T-34 was just about done...are you still out there anywhere? 

The TEST POST:

This is the wrapup for the recently completed Winter Warriors GB - I went through the GB archives and pulled out what I considered to be the best single pic of each completed build. A few of the pics are in "not-quite-finished" stages, as in the ensuing time some pics had been moved...there are also some that were finished, but the builders sadly disappeared from the build. Warning - there ARE a couple of A/C in here...heh.

Completed Builds (in chronological finishing order, for the most part):

Biffa - T34


SMJModeler - SU-122


Plastic_Cross - M7 Priest


Arki30 - Bf-109F-4


Slightly Altered - Tiger I Late


Panzer88 - 251/9


Luftwoller - KVII

Tellis - M36


Dostacos - M8


Dupes - Panther


Detailfreak - Panzer III


Some Assembly Required - Marder III


BobBaily - T34


Townsy - Strv.103B


Dupes - Ju-87B-2 Stuka


Espins1 - 38(t)Ausf.F


Bufflehead - Panzer IV Ausf.G

dupes:  Nice way to wrap things up.  I like how you, as the moderator, make this post instead of all us participants...all of them together...easy viewing.  Nice work, and terrific "MC" job there sir.

...when did you say Winter Warriors II starts?

Why thank you sir.

Definitely better to have them all in one post, rather than hoping that everyone adds their own pics (which ends up being about a MILLION pics) to a wrap up thread.

I would look for Winter Warriors II - The Wintering on the 1st of December.

Hmmm. Saddler, did you JUST change the link for your pics? I just got Luftwoller's link to finish things up, and yours is now broken! I'll take it out for now, shoot me a new link/pic here in this thread as soon as you can and I'll add it to the wrap-up!

SMJ - I'll be very glad not to see any snow until December.

When do you plan on posting the finished builds page?  I have made a couple of tweaks to my Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) Ausf. F.  I corrected the color of the handles on the wire cutters, which should be reddish brown as they are made of bakelite.  I have known that for a while now, but for some reason was in a hurry to finish this build and it slipped past me.  I also found a small PE bracket the carpet in my den for holding the two spare track links on the left rear fender and reattached it. 

Can I post an updated picture for the final build thread?