Winter/arctic markings & colours (was Let It Snow thread)

[Taiidantomcat]

voting should open soon for the next round of GBs....as Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby would say "I hereby declare this day to be Snow Day"

That cracked me up, love that episode.

[Mossie]

Draft rules as promised:

1 Models of any genre can take part.  Aircraft, armour, ships, sci-fi, figures, military or civillian, plus anything I've forgetten.

2 The model must clearly be suited to snowy or icey conditions.  This can be either by means of the paint scheme (camouflage or hi-viz), equipment fit, or as part of a diorama, or cobinations of all of them.

3 Dioramas, scratchbuilds, conversions & kitbashes are welcomed.

4 CLASSIFIED

5 Must be a Whif (duh)!

6 There is no rule 6.  Not to be confused with rule 4.

7 Prizes, not sure yet, I'll let you know when I do.

8 Good luck & have fun!

Let me know if there's anything that's not clear or needs a re-think.

Simon.

[Taiidantomcat]

Well said on Rule #2  We need to get these GBs on the road!  Im impatient to start (and fail to finish of course) more GBs

[AeroplaneDriver]

Not a whif obviously, but this is my sole attempt at a winter diorama, which I drag out and display at Christmas.  I was tickled pink when it was the only thing posted on the ARC Homepage on Christmas Day a few years ago.

The dio is unofficially titled 'Peace on Earth' when it comes out at Christmas.



The snow is just baking soda dusted over the original basic plane-on-grass diorama. 

[nev]

Nick, that is a beautiful little vignette, and very appropriate.  I may have to pinch it

I sure hope this GB goes ahead, I got my entry all lined up and ready to go

[nev]

Some spectacular photos of Norweigan Vipers posted on UKAR 

[kitnut617]

I saw those photos in Combat Aircraft magazine too, nice article that goes with them.

[ChernayaAkula]

Oh, those are spectacular indeed!  Very, very nice. 

Didn't know the Norwegians had these cavern hangars as well. Does make sense, though.

[Taiidantomcat]

Hope this scheme counts 

[AeroplaneDriver]

Cavern hangers are sooooo cool...soooo Star Wars...  Great pics Nev!   

[Mossie]

Hope this scheme counts 

Does for me!   For camo, bascially, if it's got white in it's a go'er, more or less (of course there are white schemes that wouldn't fit, i.e. naval schemes).  I posted a profile I did a little while back of a USAF Tornado in desert colours with white portions for Utah ANG.  I'm always fascinated with Utah, that it can snow in a desert that blisters in the summer.  So if you can find a backstory for it, you can add a snow camouflage to pretty much anything, especially where sci-fi is concerned.

Great pic by the way, also Nev with those mountain Vipers!

Nick, that Spit is just the kind of thing.  If you don't want to finish a subject in camo or high viz, then crack out the icing sugar or baking soda!

[philp]

I posted a profile I did a little while back of a USAF Tornado in desert colours with white portions for Utah ANG.  I'm always fascinated with Utah, that it can snow in a desert that blisters in the summer. 

You ought to try living here.

[Mossie]

Well, I can kind of understand from the weather we have here.  The climate here is mild, but very variable.  I was in London this week & we had a mix.  Warm the first day, hot the second, blistering the third.  The fourth day was something else.  Temps had dropped fifteen to twenty degrees centigrade from the previous day & the wind had picked up.  But the temperatures kept changing & going up another ten to fifteen degrees, then dropping again, coupled with the odd short sprinkling of rain.  So we went out in jeans & t-shirt, took a coat, kept zipping up, unzipping, taking it off, then wishing we were in shorts & back and forth again, all within the same hour, no exageration.

[Taiidantomcat]

central and northern NM is the same way, snowy sand. but it usually melts after only a few days.

[ChernayaAkula]

^ Damn, but that's cool!