Thinking in the Box, Real World GB?

Mossie · July 25, 2008, 01:50:09 PM

Okay, here's a crazy idea, how about a real world build for a bit of a change? Several other real world forums have whiff build every now & then, how about us doing some different from the 'norm'?

[Ducks & waits for the sh!t storm.....]

AeroplaneDriver · July 25, 2008, 02:34:19 PM

I havent done a RW build in a while, but I know some members do them frequently. I think it might be a decent idea at some point.

philp · July 25, 2008, 03:08:37 PM

Even more radical, our own version of Silly Week but with RW builds instead of Whiffs?

We could do it at the beginning of the year when ARC does theirs or wait and post them on April 1st.

puddingwrestler · July 25, 2008, 03:34:46 PM

Okay, but the model has to be scrupulously researched and contain exactly the right number of rivets.

Damian2 · July 25, 2008, 04:32:25 PM

Quote from: puddingwrestler on July 25, 2008, 03:34:46 PM
Okay, but the model has to be scrupulously researched and contain exactly the right number of rivets.

Not to mention the autobiography and medical records for the pilot in question!

kitnut617 · July 25, 2008, 05:38:42 PM

OK we definitely need the falling down, cracked up laughing smiley.

nev · July 25, 2008, 10:56:41 PM

I like your thinking - What If silly week. Build a real model

AeroplaneDriver · July 25, 2008, 11:14:18 PM

Part of the fun could be the critiquing of the builds. The membership would try to find as many faults as possible (in a good natured way).

Ed S · July 26, 2008, 07:10:34 AM

You mean we could play JMN for a day!

As long as it doesn't rub off and become permanent.

Ed

lancer · July 26, 2008, 11:28:11 AM

Now this is an idea I could get behind! Brilliant cincept.

Radish · July 26, 2008, 03:01:38 PM

I have TWO REAL WORLD builds being researched, both in the dreaded 1/48th....

UH-1C of the USMC in Vietnam, 1968....got the story behind it sorted....the crew chase and capture a NVA guy, all good stuff. The first guy out of the Huey forgets his safety harness clip, so jumps out, and is pulled back straight away ...splosh...into the paddy field. The second guy releases his clip, but can't get his gun from under the seat, so chases the NVA guy with a huge machete used for clearing foliage!!

Second is a USN Reserve F6F-5 repainted for use in the film, "Flying Leathernecks", in USMC colours, with rough overpainting of the original markings, clearly seen in flight views, on the ground, etc. Still shots taken from the net, and the dioama has John wayne, F6F-5 and a jeep.

I like it.

I'll finish these two for Telford 2008, so they'll be "ready". For the Quarter Scale stand.

Weaver · July 27, 2008, 02:37:50 PM

I think you'll find that the title of this thread should actually be "Real World G.B.", since correct grammar demands that initials are separated by full stops.

Weaver
Just getting his hand in.....

Mossie · July 28, 2008, 02:22:24 AM

Hey, weave, don't make me invoke the Shatner again.....

Good response so far, like Nev says, I kind of thought of it as our silly week. Most people here like real world builds & I haven't done one in a while so it would make a nice change.

Ian the Kiwi Herder · July 28, 2008, 03:26:35 AM

As I do an equal amount of R.W. (nods to Weaver) and What Ifs, this would not be too far a leap for me.... Have to hold my hand up to JMZ tendancies for R.W. stuff - I wont build it unless I can get it 'Right' with a capital 'R'.

Having said that I LUV the idea of good natured hyper-crticism and Jackal Island stylee nit-picking "I think you'll find the propeller manufacturers decals were a quarter-inch nearer the tip than you've placed them, therefore your model cannot be contemplated for judging...."

Bring it on.

Ian

ysi_maniac · July 28, 2008, 10:55:10 AM

It is funny, I was thinking in this idea this morning. Count on me,