Quote from: NARSES2 on March 08, 2024, 06:08:41 AM

Quote from: Mossie on March 07, 2024, 10:53:22 AMI figured the slightest hint of Debbie Harry would be bribe enough to get you to tear my pages out the book...

You know me to well 

Never mind Debbie Harry, have you seen Toya Willcox recently? 

Gondor

Quote from: Gondor on March 08, 2024, 07:25:11 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on March 08, 2024, 06:08:41 AM

Quote from: Mossie on March 07, 2024, 10:53:22 AMI figured the slightest hint of Debbie Harry would be bribe enough to get you to tear my pages out the book...

You know me to well 

Never mind Debbie Harry, have you seen Toya Willcox recently? 

Gondor

Her Sunday Lunch YouTube clips with hubby Bob Fripp?  They're brilliant.  I know someone up in Alnwick who really does need a restraining order when it comes to Toyah!

Quote from: kitbasher on March 08, 2024, 07:40:06 AM

Quote from: Gondor on March 08, 2024, 07:25:11 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on March 08, 2024, 06:08:41 AM

Quote from: Mossie on March 07, 2024, 10:53:22 AMI figured the slightest hint of Debbie Harry would be bribe enough to get you to tear my pages out the book...

You know me to well 

Never mind Debbie Harry, have you seen Toya Willcox recently? 

Gondor

Her Sunday Lunch YouTube clips with hubby Bob Fripp?  They're brilliant.  I know someone up in Alnwick who really does need a restraining order when it comes to Toyah!

I'll just say that as far as I am concerned she has Matured Nicley 

Gondor

Really liking the "South" and Century series ideas!  A few of us have supported some south ideas in the past, but it never seemed to get enough traction. 

While I enjoyed and participated the 2 UK focused GB's (Jag, Lighting, etc) and the "decade" series, a new flavor is always welcome!

Quote from: Weaver on March 06, 2024, 05:05:28 AM

Quote from: McColm on March 05, 2024, 08:06:07 AMAir ambulances.
Helicopters, fixed wing or combinations.

You could expand that to Life Savers: emergency vehicles of all types:
Air Ambulances
Land Ambulances
Lifeboats
Fire engines
Fire-fighting aircraft
Fire-fighting ships
Rescue spacecraft of some sort
Basically anything that's designed to save lives, not take them.

Make it emergency services then it can include police, coastguard, customs and excise, border patrol etc.

Quote from: zenrat on March 08, 2024, 07:34:23 PM

Quote from: Weaver on March 06, 2024, 05:05:28 AM

Quote from: McColm on March 05, 2024, 08:06:07 AMAir ambulances.
Helicopters, fixed wing or combinations.

You could expand that to Life Savers: emergency vehicles of all types:
Air Ambulances
Land Ambulances
Lifeboats
Fire engines
Fire-fighting aircraft
Fire-fighting ships
Rescue spacecraft of some sort
Basically anything that's designed to save lives, not take them.

Make it emergency services then it can include police, coastguard, customs and excise, border patrol etc.

Sounds like the Blue Lights GB from a few years ago

If it was more than the two years that were specified at the beginning, another one could be allowable?
There again, it's been done once so maybe something else gets a turn this year. Or keep the subject as Life Savers, per se.

I don't mind Life Savers, as for Atomic Powered Transport which seems to have gone on a different route of it's own why not songs that have a whiff in the title?

Made from wood
There have been boats/ships, submarines,  aircraft, cars,lorries and trains. So as long as the main body is either made from wood or looks like it was as there's quite a few decals that have a wood grain effect.

Spaceships
This can mean anything real world, from a book, TV show or film or pure whiffery. It covers spaceflight, so anything that has flown above 90,000ft that has continued to go up or back down once the mission has finished. (Interceptors and reconnaissance aircraft are not included. )

Quote from: McColm on March 09, 2024, 12:39:41 AM...Spaceships
This can mean anything real world, from a book, TV show or film or pure whiffery. It covers spaceflight, so anything that has flown above 90,000ft that has continued to go up or back down once the mission has finished. (Interceptors and reconnaissance aircraft are not included. )

No it can't.  Has to be a whiff.

Quote from: zenrat on March 09, 2024, 03:55:12 AM

Quote from: McColm on March 09, 2024, 12:39:41 AM...Spaceships
This can mean anything real world, from a book, TV show or film or pure whiffery. It covers spaceflight, so anything that has flown above 90,000ft that has continued to go up or back down once the mission has finished. (Interceptors and reconnaissance aircraft are not included. )

No it can't.  Has to be a whiff.

I really don't "get" sci-fi as a WHIF.  Everything sci-fi is in technically a WHIF, but if someone models a known kit or draws something from a fictional show, book, etc. it really is not a WHIF.  Now if you strap two Saturn V's for a twin-Saturn (Saturn X?), that is a WHIF. 

Quote from: sandiego89 on March 09, 2024, 04:40:25 AM

Quote from: zenrat on March 09, 2024, 03:55:12 AM

Quote from: McColm on March 09, 2024, 12:39:41 AM...Spaceships
This can mean anything real world, from a book, TV show or film or pure whiffery. It covers spaceflight, so anything that has flown above 90,000ft that has continued to go up or back down once the mission has finished. (Interceptors and reconnaissance aircraft are not included. )

No it can't.  Has to be a whiff.

I really don't "get" sci-fi as a WHIF.  Everything sci-fi is in technically a WHIF, but if someone models a known kit or draws something from a fictional show, book, etc. it really is not a WHIF.  Now if you strap two Saturn V's for a twin-Saturn (Saturn X?), that is a WHIF. 

Not really as you can do that in Kerbal Space Program so I'm not sure if it's a whiff or not 

Gondor

I look on Science Fiction as a sub-genre of What If, because all Science Fiction relies on the asking the question "What if... this/that/the other happened at now/then/elsewhen?" & then attempting to answer it.

It's a bit like trying to explain gravity to someone 

Quote from: Gondor on March 09, 2024, 05:03:54 AM

Quote from: sandiego89 on March 09, 2024, 04:40:25 AMI really don't "get" sci-fi as a WHIF.  Everything sci-fi is in technically a WHIF, but if someone models a known kit or draws something from a fictional show, book, etc. it really is not a WHIF.  Now if you strap two Saturn V's for a twin-Saturn (Saturn X?), that is a WHIF. 

Not really as you can do that in Kerbal Space Program so I'm not sure if it's a whiff or not 

Gondor

Two people can have the same idea. Kerbal is just an online box of Lego really, you can build pretty much anything with it.

I think sci fi is a little tricky.  I think you couldn't argue that building a kit of the USS Enterprise oob was a whif. Painting it purple or adding a second saucer would be though.  The waters muddy a bit when building your own interpretation of something that is less mainstream (i.e. from a book description or artwork), I'd argue it would count.

Quote from: Mossie on March 09, 2024, 08:27:49 AM

Quote from: Gondor on March 09, 2024, 05:03:54 AM

Quote from: sandiego89 on March 09, 2024, 04:40:25 AMI really don't "get" sci-fi as a WHIF.  Everything sci-fi is in technically a WHIF, but if someone models a known kit or draws something from a fictional show, book, etc. it really is not a WHIF.  Now if you strap two Saturn V's for a twin-Saturn (Saturn X?), that is a WHIF. 

Not really as you can do that in Kerbal Space Program so I'm not sure if it's a whiff or not 

Gondor

Two people can have the same idea. Kerbal is just an online box of Lego really, you can build pretty much anything with it.

I think sci fi is a little tricky.  I think you couldn't argue that building a kit of the USS Enterprise oob was a whif. Painting it purple or adding a second saucer would be though.  The waters muddy a bit when building your own interpretation of something that is less mainstream (i.e. from a book description or artwork), I'd argue it would count.

I take it you mean something like building your own interpretation of the submarine from "2,000 Leagues Under the Sea".

Gondor