Call for 2021/2022 GB Suggestions

[kitbasher]

"swapping with incontinents"

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[Nick]

The thought of a Faberge Me-163 surely BOGGLES the mind! 

I can't find the photo, but think of a Komet stood on its tail, lapis lazuli blue, with a golden nose and canopy, and jewelled panel lines running nose to tail.

That's pretty much what I had in mind too, having seen Doenitz' baton in the Shrewsbury Town Museum (No, I don't know why it's there either...)

Well OTT!

Taken by British Army soldiers after the surrender 

A replacement baton sold a couple of years ago for £25,000. It was probably a fake. The original is worth a lot more. 
https://www.droog-mag.nl/hitler/2019/ct/index.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7821893/Replica-ceremonial-baton-Adolf-Hitlers-successor-sells-nearly-25-000-auction.html

[Snowtrooper]

Pimp My Ride - or, "Fancy but Impractical". Planes, boats, cars all welcome, just as long as they have been outfitted to be all show beyond all reason, like a 4x4 with 1 cm of ground clearance. Can include military subjects though that will require some creativity (B-17 with a cut-away/see-through fuselage that shows the crew has fit in there a galley, sleeping quarters, and a bar complete with a gramophone, dartboard, and billiards table somehow came to my mind when writing this), offers possibilities for "Civilianize It" builds as well.

Post-Apocalyptic Build - your apocalypse and its consequences might vary, but Insane Ian's last of the V12 Interceptors is of course still allowed. An asteroid breaking Earth's crust is a good excuse to have everyone use a mecha to get across the broken ground. Of course the apocalypse might be something totally implausible like a global pandemic forcing everyone to isolate themselves, though I have not yet seen a fire truck's water cannon repurposed to shoot disinfectant (remembering the photos from a year ago showing governments "doing something" by staging a silly photo shoot to show how they disinfect the city streets).

[kitbasher]

I was going to suggest a Mosquito one, what with the new Airfix one due at some point in the next year, but that's a bit limiting. How about a De Havilland one instead, as that means anything built by the company in the UK, Australia and Canada. And it could be stretched a tad to include anything by Airspeed, as they were owned by De Havilland.

I'd be up for that, with Airco and Airspeed included.  Also dH designs that were subsequently manufactured under the Hawker-Siddely, British Aerospace and BAE Systems names.

As an aside, I think a dH127 (https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/de-havilland-dh-127-and-dh-128.33194/) could probably be wrenched out of a Tornado F3 with a fair bit of plastic card and PSR, and perhaps something vaguely dH117 (https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/de-havilland-dh-117.4929/) from a Voodoo.

[McColm]

Pimp My Ride - or, "Fancy but Impractical". Planes, boats, cars all welcome, just as long as they have been outfitted to be all show beyond all reason, like a 4x4 with 1 cm of ground clearance. Can include military subjects though that will require some creativity (B-17 with a cut-away/see-through fuselage that shows the crew has fit in there a galley, sleeping quarters, and a bar complete with a gramophone, dartboard, and billiards table somehow came to my mind when writing this), offers possibilities for "Civilianize It" builds as well.

Post-Apocalyptic Build - your apocalypse and its consequences might vary, but Insane Ian's last of the V12 Interceptors is of course still allowed. An asteroid breaking Earth's crust is a good excuse to have everyone use a mecha to get across the broken ground. Of course the apocalypse might be something totally implausible like a global pandemic forcing everyone to isolate themselves, though I have not yet seen a fire truck's water cannon repurposed to shoot disinfectant (remembering the photos from a year ago showing governments "doing something" by staging a silly photo shoot to show how they disinfect the city streets).

Pimp my ride sounds good,  there was a TV programme with the same name.

[NARSES2]

"swapping with incontinents"

??

My copy say's "swapping within continents"

Although ?

[McColm]

Jaguar E-type 60th birthday
The Jaguar E-type is an iconic car, but in the hands of a Whiffer with so many plastic kit models to choose from many variants could be built either concept models that never made it into production or using parts from a 1/24 Jaguar E-type on a Dodge Viper for example .
I know that the 1/24 Jaguar MkII doesn't quite fit on a Jaguar E-type of the same scale as I tried to build the sedan version,  I should have tried putting parts from the E-type on the MKII instead!

[AeroplaneDriver]

Channel surfing on a rainy day here in the southern US I saw that Flight Of the Phoenix is on TV today.  This seems fertile ground for a "Phoenix" GB.

I'm sure most if not all are familiar with the film(s) and/or book, but to summarize a cargo plane being ferried across the desert crashes and the crew fashion together a flyable machine out of the wreckage.  Real life kit bashing if you will! 

Take your model and rebuild it as if it has crashed and you need to cobble together something to fly out on to survive. 

[kerick]

Myth busters did something like that by repairing and flying an airplane with duck/duct tape. They then built a sailboat with a metal frame covered in tape and a duct tape sail.

[McColm]

Alternative aircraft for  RAF Transport Command or MATS.
Quite a lot of scope for this subject , single engines,  twins, triple and quads.
Tilting wings or even V/STOL transport.

[PR19_Kit]

Channel surfing on a rainy day here in the southern US I saw that Flight Of the Phoenix is on TV today.  This seems fertile ground for a "Phoenix" GB.

I'm sure most if not all are familiar with the film(s) and/or book, but to summarize a cargo plane being ferried across the desert crashes and the crew fashion together a flyable machine out of the wreckage.  Real life kit bashing if you will! 

Take your model and rebuild it as if it has crashed and you need to cobble together something to fly out on to survive.

I've got the remains of the quite awful Aurora C-119 kit that was destined to be a model of The Phoenix, but as usual it ended up as 'pending'.....