Ship GB

[ysi_maniac]

Yet another idea: British Pocket Battle Cruiser
Take the Airfix Belfast, delete main turrets and put a pair of 15in twin turrets from a Hood or Warspite. Love this

[Weaver]

OR

Cross kit the Airfix Belfast and Devonshire to produce a post-war missile cruiser refit. Keep A and B turrets, replace all the 4" with two 4.5" Mk.6 and two Seacats, and make a completely new rear superstructure with a Seaslug magazine inside it, the launcher behind it, and the Type 901 tracker on top of it.

[ysi_maniac]

Another idea:

What if Bismarck, after sinking HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales , manages to return to motherland and there damages and some failures are fixed. Particularly a transom stern, correctly protecting rudder and screws. Taking advance, main battery is upgraded: 3 turrets x 3 guns each, same calibre.

Something like this:

[ysi_maniac]

This can inspire too.
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,31762.0.html

[ysi_maniac]

Another project a would start with a Bismarck base http://bit.ly/hExoPT

[pyro-manic]

A Belfast-based missile cruiser would be rather nifty. I don't think she'd take a pair of 15" turrets though - she was a classic cruiser design, with a very fine slender hull. You'd have to give her some big bulges to make her stable enough for heavy guns, which would slow her down quite a bit. I think you could easily upgun her with twin 8" turrets though, from something like the Exeter class. That would make for a pretty good heavy cruiser. You might even get away with some of the two-gun 14" turrets from the KGV class battleships. Two or three of those might be plausible, with much-reduced armour on the turrets to save weight.

[Thorvic]

Okay start getting your ideas together and sourcing your parts as were looking to fire this Group Build next month when the Secret Santa is scheduled to finish.

Details about the rules for the Group Build will be posted up in the near future once the rules have been finalised and apporved, but thought i should give people a heads up to start thinking of ideas.

For those not willing to get their feet wet, we are also considering running the VTOL GB during the same time frame, once you have finished off your 1946 and Africa builds that is  .

Geoff
The Admin Team

[Cliffy B]

WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

[Taiidantomcat]

Okay start getting your ideas together and sourcing your parts as were looking to fire this Group Build next month when the Secret Santa is scheduled to finish.

Details about the rule the Group Build will be posted up in the near future once the rules have been finalised and apporved, but thought i should give people a heads up to start thinking of ideas.

For those not willing to get their feet wet, we are also considering running the VTOL GB during the same time frame, once you have finished off your 1946 and Africa builds that is  .

Geoff
The Admin Team

Well explained!! 

[tigercat]

ooh my idea for a ship might qualify for the VTOL build aswell. One of it's associated itmes rather than the ship itself.

[Thorvic]

ooh my idea for a ship might qualify for the VTOL build aswell. One of it's associated itmes rather than the ship itself.

That did cross my mind when looking at the SCS master i'm working on !!

[Weaver]

Well I did say I wasn't going to do any GBs this year, but since I proposed this in the first place, it'd be rude not to, wouldn't it? Possibilities will be limited to stuff I've already got, since buying things is OFF the agenda unless the job situation changes:

1. Type 84 destroyer: Type 82 (HMS Bristol) on steroids for a "richer Britain" timeline, basically. Has double-ended Sea Dart with four trackers and Ikara in the middle or on the quarterdeck. Got a cheap Spruance for the hull, two Type 42s and an Invincible to chop up, so that should cover it....

2. Proper Type 21: Airfix's 1/600th Amazon (Vosper Mk.8 ) scaleorama'd to 1/700th to make a Royal Navy equivalent of Brazil's Niterois (Vosper Mk.10).

[sequoiaranger]

I've done my "1946 GB" entry (He-1062 Molch), and may enjoy the change of pace to a ship after my "Twin-engined Zero" is done (May). So in about a month I will be ready for a new project. The Yonaga will be a small-scale (1/2000??) aircraft carrier based on my favorite "To Victory Through Seapower" (Furashita's Fleet) IJN carrier game piece :

http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashita/yonaga_f.htm

I have some odd-scale small-scale ship kits that might be persuaded to mangle themselves into this ship. An old Pyro "Table Top Navy" Shokaku kit, a Heller 1/1600 Arromanche, and some Bandai Akagi, Shokaku, Yamato, and Illustrious kits, too!

Thinking cap *ON*!

[Taiidantomcat]

I think I may just throw my hat into the ring for this GB. I've never built a ship before, so this would be the perfect excuse to try my hand at one.

I have only built two or three in all my years, one of the things that is exicting about this GB is folks stepping out of their comfort zones. It will be very fun to watch, and there should be a lot of ship gurus here to help us new people as well. How do you mask a ship anyway 

[Thorvic]

Okay moved the original propasal discussion to the Group Build section so as to make it easier to refer to