2023/2024 GB Season - Call for Ideas

Right here we are, this is the place to submit your ideas which will then go forward for voting to determine the subjects of the 2023/2024 GB Season.

Can I please ask you to think carefully before you submit an idea so as to try and ensure it is at least practical in terms of building it.

Can I also remind you that subjects from the previous 2 GB Seasons are not eligible. Thus : The 50's, Logistics, Lightning/Hunter/Canberra, Recce and Surveillance, Gunships, and Pirates are not eligible as subjects for this season's GB's.

I will aim to run any necessary preliminary poll on the 21st March and the final round of voting will take place 1st April.

Thank you

Chris

Something simple - Aces.

Any model of a aircraft, vehicle or ship/sub that was an ace-maker. That could be a James Bond car or a jet or Allen Carter's Eagle One or a U-boat...

You just have to state where it became an ace maker - Richard Bong's P-38 lightning would be a good example or perhaps Bond's DB5...

Heck, Poe Dameron's X-wing would be worthy.

Quote from: Lord_Voyager on March 07, 2023, 06:28:25 AMHeck, Poe Dameron's X-wing would be worthy.

Ditto Wedge Antilles'.  Assuming you allow in the Legacy EU

Rivers & Lakes

Anything that goes on rivers or lakes;
                                        River/Lake Racing Boats
                                        Seaplanes/Flying Boats
                                        River Gunboats
                                        Great Lakes Steamers
                                        Kayaks/Canoes
                                        Float Rigged Helicopters
                                        Etc.

"Down Under"
Anything adorned by a kangaroo or a kiwi in a roundel

no camouflage

camouflage didnt happen

we are talking about tanks planes and ships in pre cam colours

silver spitfires
tanks in hi vis recognition colours
ships in pre "battleship grey"

Space, man.

Anything related to escaping Earth.
I may or may not have a Space Shuttle kit in my stash   

The "Anything but military".  Self explanatory

The "Research or exploration". Space, air, land, sea or undersea.

How about a "Single Kit" build?  Meaning everyone tackles the exact same kit.  Something of reasonable quality, but cheap and easy to find everywhere like maybe one of Airfix's recent 1/72 WW2 fighter kits or one of the kits reboxed around the world as Italeri/Revell/Tamiya?  Obviously this would require the additional step of everyone agreeing on a particular kit but it would be interesting to see the different interpretations of the same base product. 

Frozen

Allows for Ski planes, high latitude vehicles, ice breakers, railway snow ploughs, deep space, the moons of Jupiter,  dioramas of tundra tractors.................................and possibly even a guest appearance of the Track Rover.

Quote from: Rheged on March 07, 2023, 12:35:58 PM........and possibly even a guest appearance of the Track Rover.

                

Quote from: AeroplaneDriver on March 07, 2023, 10:55:26 AMHow about a "Single Kit" build?  Meaning everyone tackles the exact same kit.  Something of reasonable quality, but cheap and easy to find everywhere like maybe one of Airfix's recent 1/72 WW2 fighter kits or one of the kits reboxed around the world as Italeri/Revell/Tamiya?  Obviously this would require the additional step of everyone agreeing on a particular kit but it would be interesting to see the different interpretations of the same base product. 

Since the 1990s IPMS-Seattle has had an on again off again "Modelfy" group contest as part of their big annual spring show. It's varied between having to use a single kit, to using any kit in any scale of a singular subject. The basic requirement is that it can't just build the kit OOB with different markings or paint scheme, it has to be "modified" in someway, thus "Modelfy". The only other fast rule is that whatever you build has to have at least one part that is clearly identifiable as coming from the designated kit/subject. 

Three ideas, with examples (free of charge  ):

"TL-191/The Southern Victory GB"
- US-operated He-112, bought from Imperial Germany
- Free-Haiti M3 Stuart Barrel
- Free Belgium Avro Lancaster
- Spanish Blue Division Somua S35 barrel
- Confederated Mitsubishi B5M

"The Man in the High Castle GB"
- Curtiss P-62 fighter defending NYC
- Japanes Pacific States Nakajima Kitsuka (aka Kikka)
- American Reich Me-262A-2
- England-in-exile TBF Avenger
- Panzer IV "Kangaroo"

"Operation Overloard (D-Day)"
- Danish squadron in exile P-51 Mustang
- Italian Socialist Republic Panzer III Ausf N
- (Luftwaffe Heinkel He-280)
- Cuban M5 Stuart
- Vichy France Panzer II

Quote from: AeroplaneDriver on March 07, 2023, 10:55:26 AMHow about a "Single Kit" build?  Meaning everyone tackles the exact same kit.  Something of reasonable quality, but cheap and easy to find everywhere like maybe one of Airfix's recent 1/72 WW2 fighter kits or one of the kits reboxed around the world as Italeri/Revell/Tamiya?  Obviously this would require the additional step of everyone agreeing on a particular kit but it would be interesting to see the different interpretations of the same base product. 

Very fine concept !

How about a generic "Science Fiction" build?

It's not popular, but I will (still) throw "Afrcia" in, because it's such an overlooked but vast region. "Middle & South America" might be a similar alternative.

I'd also have suggested some kind of "Winter/Snow" or "At sea" theme (but it's already been mentiond) , and I really like the "Aces"  and "Single Kit" ideas.