What was it meant to be?

[Sisko]

I have an idea for a group build that is a little out of the ordinary but could be a lot of fun.

I propose a group build where we take a kit and change it from what it was supposed to be into something that it was never intended to be.

Let me explain.

Take an aircraft kit and make it into a car, tank or ship. Remove the turret from a tank add a set of rotors and presto a helicoptor.

Take a ship or boat model and make it into a seaplane.  A car can be turned into a ground attack craft. The sky is the limit a spaceship model can become a plane, tank or ship, a car or truck can become a spaceship.  

This is something that the creator of SF3D used to do. He would make models and you could hardly tell what the original kits was because he had changed it so much.

The only rule is that kit cannot be what it was intended to be.  :dum:

Wadda ya reckin!!!!!!

[John Howling Mouse]

Who was it that transformed an Me-262 fuselage into a Formula-1 racing car?

[Sisko]

Example

submarine

[SinUnNombre]

Who was it that transformed an Me-262 fuselage into a Formula-1 racing car?

I used to have pics of that saved until my harddrive crashed. That was so cool. I would most definitely be in on this one.

Jon

[B777LR]

Here it is:

[jcf]

Similar to the late-lamented Northwest Scale Modelers "Modelfy" category, in which everybody started with the same kit and produced something completely different.

There is a move a foot to bring it back for the 2008 Seattle-IPMS Show.

Here is an example of a previous modelfy subject, The Fairey Rotodyne, done by IPMS-Seattle President for Life Terry Moore(Braincells37):

(Bill Johnson turned his Rotodyne into a Killer Whale...pretty cool.)

This is the official "rule":
Mod el fy (mad 'l fiii) v. [[Fr modele < It modello, dim. of modo, L modus, prec]] (1a.) to take a perfectly good small copy or imitation of an existing object, such as a ship, building, etc., made to scale and change it in some whimsical, speculative or horrifying way. (b.) to distort a representation of something. (c.) a desperate attempt to not waste an expensive kit you have screwed up in some way. (d.) an annual rite in the Pacific Northwest Scale Modeling community during which the natives(and gullible transients) all agree(well, to be honest, only the ones still talking to each other actually agree) to purchase the same model kit and build it in some way unforeseen by the manufacturer. vt. –ied or –ying (2a.) to mutate a model (b.) to refuse to conform to a standard[to modelfy one's behavior]
See also: Tamiyafication, Revellify, and worst of all, Matchboxify.


But first as follow-on to Schneider '49 the following has been proposed:

Jasta Schweinhimmel

Premise – You are a WWI Pilot, Designer, Squadron painter etc.  You paint your airplane any way you want
Time Frame – 1914 – 1920
Scale – 1/48 or thereabouts


1) Emphasis is on creativity

2) Models can be built straight from the box or you can mix, match and modify parts as you see fit as long as it looks it could have flown during WWI

3) Rigging is not required

4) Other info?

Potential Judging categories:
* Pour le merit (best overall) not sure how to define this yet
* Hun in the Sun Award – (most effective camouflage scheme)
* Red Baron Award (brightest paint scheme)
* Ernest Hemmingway Award (best story)
   * Other ideas?
   * Other ideas?

References/Inspiration – For the most part we encourage you to toss your references (at least as far as "accuracy" goes, but we recognize that references can provide some inspiration so we list a few with that goal in mind.

The Aerodrome  (This is one of my favorite WWI aviation websites)
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/index.php?act=idx

World War I Modeling Page  (Another very popular WWI aviation website)
http://www.wwi-models.org/

Fokker Factory  (they don't just do Fokkers)
http://www.fokkerfactory.com/

Albatros Publications
http://www.windsockdatafilespecials.com/
(Info from Mike Millete.)


Cheers, Jon

[Sisko]

That Me262 F1 is great, as is the rotodyne sub.

This is what I had in mind.

I doubt that we will get many takers but it seemed like a good idea.