2009 1 Week Group Build - 5th Annual!

[lenny100]

OK I am in
Never know might get this one finished this time

[nev]

A one WEEK Group Build? 

I've got as much chance of doing something in that time as I have of cycling to the Moon......

But it'll be interesting to see what you 'Blitz Builders' come up with nonetheless.

You'll be surprised kit - we generally get 20+ finished builds and the standard is always VERY high.  You are allowed to do prep beforhand - cutting parts off sprues & tidying them up, just no glue or paint allowed before the start time.  Just choose the right kit and a simple scheme and you're away.  A 1/72 resin tank, or 1/72 WW2 single engine fighter, simple scheme and you're don.  To give you and idea of what can be done, check out the completed entries thread from the last 2 years

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20726.0.html

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,16816.0.html

Well the good news is I'm off from today until July 22.  The bad news is I'm going to England next week!!!  I should be home on the 14th, so that still gives me 5 days...plenty of time!!   

Looking forward to this great annual tradition

Remember Nick, the rule is you have to build what I sent you as you prize!  I forgot what it was though - Hunter?  Hurricane?

[NARSES2]

A one WEEK Group Build? 

We had a 24 hour build once Kit 

I have the free time in my diary - finishes the day before I travel "oop North" on our newly nationalised NE railways 

[DaFROG]

woot I am on annual leave for the duration
I have only completed 4 models in the last year three of which were for the last one week GB
One was for a proper JMN competition, built the model in about a week away from home with limited supplies, found out comp was on, entered cos I thought I'd place by default due to low entries in my category (models by frogs and other amphibious creatures), and managed to come 3rd of 5. 

as to what i will build this time, I have several evil plans in the planning stages (one of them involves a vac form)

[AeroplaneDriver]

A one WEEK Group Build?  

I've got as much chance of doing something in that time as I have of cycling to the Moon......

But it'll be interesting to see what you 'Blitz Builders' come up with nonetheless.

You'll be surprised kit - we generally get 20+ finished builds and the standard is always VERY high.  You are allowed to do prep beforhand - cutting parts off sprues & tidying them up, just no glue or paint allowed before the start time.  Just choose the right kit and a simple scheme and you're away.  A 1/72 resin tank, or 1/72 WW2 single engine fighter, simple scheme and you're don.  To give you and idea of what can be done, check out the completed entries thread from the last 2 years

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20726.0.html

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,16816.0.html

Well the good news is I'm off from today until July 22.  The bad news is I'm going to England next week!!!  I should be home on the 14th, so that still gives me 5 days...plenty of time!!  

Looking forward to this great annual tradition

Remember Nick, the rule is you have to build what I sent you as you prize!  I forgot what it was though - Hunter?  Hurricane?

I could be sneaky and say my prize was a Hase 1/48 F-104 so I could finally build the shiny black-tailed NMF Tiger Sqn machine I've been planning...but the REAL prize was a Tamiya M151 Mutt which will soon see itself converted into a gun carriage from the 1970s Dalek Wars (naturally carrying captured Dalek weaponry).

[Bungle]

Oh poo ! I'm away on a course the 13th and 14th July so I'll lose two days..... special dispensation to start on the 8th ? Pretty please ?

Wouldn't want to start early without permission (of course I could just wait for the customary 4 week extention at the end) 

[nev]

woot I am on annual leave for the duration
I have only completed 4 models in the last year three of which were for the last one week GB
One was for a proper JMN competition, built the model in about a week away from home with limited supplies, found out comp was on, entered cos I thought I'd place by default due to low entries in my category (models by frogs and other amphibious creatures), and managed to come 3rd of 5. 

as to what i will build this time, I have several evil plans in the planning stages (one of them involves a vac form)

Nothing to do with what you've written, but may I congratulate you on your imaginative use of Fujimi hazard warnings for your avatar (saw them on some instructions the other day and went "I recognise them!"

I could be sneaky and say my prize was a Hase 1/48 F-104 so I could finally build the shiny black-tailed NMF Tiger Sqn machine I've been planning...but the REAL prize was a Tamiya M151 Mutt which will soon see itself converted into a gun carriage from the 1970s Dalek Wars (naturally carrying captured Dalek weaponry).

Ah, that's right - the one with the driver cut out.

Oh poo ! I'm away on a course the 13th and 14th July so I'll lose two days..... special dispensation to start on the 8th ? Pretty please ?

Wouldn't want to start early without permission (of course I could just wait for the customary 4 week extention at the end)

No extensions!  You're getting 9 days as it is!  Just wallow in the moral superiority that will come from actually building yours in a 7 days.  The only "extension" is for those in the Americas, in that I don't formally close the GB till the Monday morning, also known as the "Leigh in California Rule".

[JayBee]

So we can only build one, and it has to be a model of a week. Where do I get the kit?

Come on get those rules out.

JimB

[nev]

You can build as many as you like - don't know where you've got the idea it can be only one.  As for the rules, just check out last years (and the year before....and the year before that.....).  They're pretty similar.

[DaFROG]

wot I am on annual leave for the duration
I have only completed 4 models in the last year three of which were for the last one week GB
One was for a proper JMN competition, built the model in about a week away from home with limited supplies, found out comp was on, entered cos I thought I'd place by default due to low entries in my category (models by frogs and other amphibious creatures), and managed to come 3rd of 5. 

as to what i will build this time, I have several evil plans in the planning stages (one of them involves a vac form)

Nothing to do with what you've written, but may I congratulate you on your imaginative use of Fujimi hazard warnings for your avatar (saw them on some instructions the other day and went "I recognise them!"

I think I plagiarised them from some Aoshima instructions, I originally used them for my [irony] performance car tuning brand [\irony] "DaFROG'S racing parts". they are a bit edited from the original.
The first symbol (pac man) is hungry Matt, the second one is sexually frustrated Matt (flaming hair) and the third one is Matt about to eat a hungry baby (note the evil eyebrows on the baby). one of my friends actually ended up with giant stickers off all the symbols down the doors of his car, unfortunately the sticker guy couldn't get the right colour (RLM666, DaFROG'S racing green BTW)
The symbols also appeared on the jersy's of "DaFROG'S racing team" (an indoor soccer team).
I even have a rubber stamp of it (best present ever).
And yes much of this lunacy was chemically assisted

[Thorvic]

Hmmn


I might give this a crack, a 1 week build should let me jump in both feet to the change of scale and subject i have in mind for the latter half of the year. Certainly a chance to re-equip the work bench and re-stock tools and materials forthe change in subject.

Just need to decide what subject to build to i can prep the drawings and work out my build plan.

Yeap I'm in

Geoff

[nev]

Good to have you on board Geoff - I recall you building a Tornado 100 a few years back...

[JayBee]

You can build as many as you like - don't know where you've got the idea it can be only one.  As for the rules, just check out last years (and the year before....and the year before that.....).  They're pretty similar.

A  "one week" build, get it? ONE! Week!

Oh failed irony again. think I'll take up knitting.

[Thorvic]

Good to have you on board Geoff - I recall you building a Tornado 100 a few years back...

Oh i'm going back to my roots with this one (even though its a new scale for me) and it WILL be a scratch build !!!!.

This will be really taking the bull by the horns but i think i should be able to manage it, if i can get the pre work done to ensure I have what few spare parts i need. Take it you'll want a photo record as well ?

[Brian da Basher]

A sure sign of summer is the Annual What-If 1 Week GB!

Count me in, gentlemen.

Brian da Basher