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Do fantasy and Sci-Fi count as whiffs?

Started by nev, July 30, 2006, 02:02:56 PM

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nev

July 30, 2006, 02:02:56 PM
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BlackOps

#1
July 30, 2006, 02:06:08 PM
I would say yes but they still pretty much have their own genre.

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Eddie M.

#2
July 30, 2006, 02:10:01 PM
It all is. Somewhere, some person had to think "What if I put this with that?" ;)  B)
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AeroplaneDriver

#3
July 30, 2006, 02:10:57 PM
I've posted a sci-fi porject or two here and nobody complained.  I would say "yes" they count as whiffs.  Having said that I wouldnt want to see this site become predominantly sci-fi and fantasy.  The odd one is great, but for more than that there is starshipmodeler and other boards.
So I got that going for me...which is nice....

The Rat

#4
July 30, 2006, 02:15:11 PM
There's been some nice stuff seen, like an X-wing fighter in U.S. Navy markings. As with anything else, if you do the Starship Enterprise out of the box, it ain't a whiff. But with a NASA scheme - COOL!

Oops, I think I've just given myself an idea...  B)  
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Gervasius

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July 30, 2006, 02:17:56 PM Last Edit: July 30, 2006, 02:19:59 PM by Gervasius
I believe it depends. Uruk-hai in front of Helm's deep probably isn't a whiff, but an Uruk-hai in cockpit of a biplane rigged Su-27 with spats of Islamic Republic of Whateveristan Army Air Shahid Corps probably counts as a whiff. My 2c.

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July 30, 2006, 07:25:21 PM Last Edit: July 30, 2006, 07:25:36 PM by John Howling Mouse
Science-Fiction is "What If" by its very nature.

It is the extrapolation of known physical laws and existing technology taken into new territory of speculation.

Now, Space Opera, like Star Wars and the like, that's just pure fun, fun, fun.

Personally, I'm open to anyone's ideas: any craft, any creature, any genre, any world, anytime...    ;)
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cthulhu77

#7
July 30, 2006, 08:44:28 PM
My life is science fiction.  Wow...I'm a what if?  

dragon

#8
July 30, 2006, 09:11:11 PM
QuoteMy life is science fiction.  Wow...I'm a what if?
Only if the guidance counselor in High School said so. :lol:  
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Tophe

#9
July 30, 2006, 09:36:27 PM
Science fiction, by definition, is a mix of fantasy and possibility, which fits the What-if principle, I guess. :)
As far as I am concerned, I seldom love science fiction craft because in outer-space, without air, there is no need of aerodynamic (pretty) shapes... A rocket and a satellite do not please me much :( , far less than a Mustang or Mirage.
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Geoff_B

#10
July 31, 2006, 12:23:36 AM
Technically yes, after all Rad has mixed Orc's & Vampires with military kits.

However Starship Modeller would be the more suitable forum for pure Sci-Fi modelling as we wouldn't want conflict with them.

G

nev

#11
July 31, 2006, 03:42:42 AM
QuoteThere's been some nice stuff seen, like an X-wing fighter in U.S. Navy markings. As with anything else, if you do the Starship Enterprise out of the box, it ain't a whiff. But with a NASA scheme - COOL!
QuoteI believe it depends. Uruk-hai in front of Helm's deep probably isn't a whiff, but an Uruk-hai in cockpit of a biplane rigged Su-27 with spats of Islamic Republic of Whateveristan Army Air Shahid Corps probably counts as a whiff.

See, thats what I initially thought, but then I thought about it, and decided there was a contradiction in this line of reasoning.  eg Ollies Spit IX marked up as in the BoB film, we would all agree is a whiff (even though it existed in real life).  We all invent our own AHs to provide a backstory to our whiffs, to build something from a popular, public AH (like Star Wars) is surely no different to inventing your own AH, like ADs superb Mars Marine Corps stuff.
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Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May

Archibald

#12
July 31, 2006, 05:07:09 AM
This is sci-fi (very, very bad sci-fi I named Goldorak) but would be something to model

Goldocrap, go!!
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King Arthur: What are you then?
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Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this poo-hole island spending the rest of my life talking to a gosh darn VOLLEYBALL.

Radish

#13
July 31, 2006, 05:42:11 AM
Absolutely OK.
At least one Crusader-thread model will be entered into the Fantasy Diorama class at IPMS(UK) Nats, Telford this year.
There might be an Ork one too.

Get into the Hobbitwaffe and Orkenwaffe, Nev. :wub:  
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nev

#14
July 31, 2006, 11:01:57 AM
Well I'm certainly thinking of popping into the local GW to see what LOTR figures they have.

Maybe a lie-up of orcs against Romans?
Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May
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