We ARE secret santa'ing this year! (formerly Are we secret santa'ing this year?)

[pyro-manic]

My pressie was from thedarkmaster - a Moebius 1:72 "Voyager" kit. Very cool, T-tailed delta thingy I'd never heard of before. Lots of potential here!

The sci fi-ish thingee of retroness and a general air of Irwin Allen about it?

This 'un: http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/moe/kit_moe_voyager.shtml

[Weaver]

Well i got a trumpeter Finback II and an Airfix Refueling set, Finback is going to be American ANG no idea on the refueling set but overall .....       santa .

Have you opened the box? - the refuelling set came with ideas......

ANG eh? Now that had never crossed my mind, but it's a big, "heavy metal" jet, so it should be highly appropriate, and a good canvas for those fancy markings.  




My present from Black Knight is a Pavla 1/72nd Gloster G.40 Pioneer, i.e. the E.28/39 Whittle engine testbed, complete with some VERY nice resin cockpit and u/c bits.  Thanks, it's great!

Respectful idea: the projected fighter version with 4 x .303s in the wings. This is a bit predictable, but it would use the very pretty resin u/c.

Disrespectful idea: Natter-style vertical take-off rocket-powered interceptor with a battery of RPs in the nose, written up from a "look how desperate those crazy Brits got before we beat them" POV.... 

[philp]

John, aka, Batmancustoms sent me this one


Still not sure what to do with it  .  Not really my scale but better for Whiff armor.  Just don't have any good ideas for alternate markings and the kit isn't all that accurate (not that that matters with a whiff).  Thinking more of converting it into a 72nd vehicle of somekind, maybe a space exploration vehicle searching for water on Mars or a mining vehicle of some type but need some ideas for those.

The turret might actually show up on a 72nd scale Hover tank if I can get started on it this week for the HOG GB.  Have a couple other turret ideas but not sure where the other pieces have run off to.

[batmancustoms]

So are we doing the Secreat Santa group uild no?  Or did I get confused again?

[Dork the kit slayer]

Opened my secret santa (xmas day) a really nice Salamander.......................and we all know they were based on carriers in Korea.....................dont we.
Thanks PW nice one

[Weaver]

John, aka, Batmancustoms sent me this one


Still not sure what to do with it  .  Not really my scale but better for Whiff armor.  Just don't have any good ideas for alternate markings and the kit isn't all that accurate (not that that matters with a whiff).  Thinking more of converting it into a 72nd vehicle of somekind, maybe a space exploration vehicle searching for water on Mars or a mining vehicle of some type but need some ideas for those.

The turret might actually show up on a 72nd scale Hover tank if I can get started on it this week for the HOG GB.  Have a couple other turret ideas but not sure where the other pieces have run off to.

You could use the chassis for a Gerry Anderson-style BIG 1/72nd vehicle: mobile drilling/mining, rocket-launching, whatever.

[puddingwrestler]

Gentlemen, I had assumed you would all instantly start building your presents without me having to tell you to start - the start date was christmas day, so you can now start hackign things up with out delay.
Now who do I havce to annoy to get our own subsection of the GBs forum?

[batmancustoms]

yahooo!

[jcf]

Colin (Freightdog) is a very, very nice man!  Thanks Col!!! 



You don't get much more of a whiff-in-a-box!  Kinda jumped the gun in the Airacuda thread.  One idea was to turn it into a conventional attack bomber, then turn one (at least) of the nacelles into a very unconventional fighter.  Then again, part of me thinks that the Airacuda is such a strange beast, it'd be a shame not to do it oob.  Time constraints might turn me against the former too, but we'll see!

I've been dealing with a Valom Airacuda and its problems for a while now so if you want info on the pit falls,
or any other info let me know. My build has to OOB for a review, so the badly molded exhaust system
is causing a major problem.

P.S. I've not forgotten about the sanding/finishing films, things have been a bit pear-shaped round her
the last few months, but now that I have studio/shop mostly put back together I'll be able to dig the stuff-out
and post it off.

p.s.s. dump the pusher/gunner nacelle and replace the lot with P-40 front ends, a belly gun and fixed
aft-shooting guns in the trailing edge of the wing. 

[jcf]

Brother Toad sent me a Minicraft RAF Ventura with an interesting melange of bits-and-bobs.
Now as it happens I had a Minicraft USN PV-1 on the shelf, so visions of twinning danced in my head,
followed quickly by the realization that by combining parts from both kits I could make a USMC PV-1
nightfighter... but then I remembered something that always made my heart sing: the one-and-only
Ventellation, a clipped nose PV-1 with the R-3350 engines, cowling and propellers of the Lockheed 049 Constellation.
So he asked himself what could one do with a production Ventellation? Kamikaze or V-weapon chaser? Race plane?
San Tortan Package Express - we get it there yesterday? Anti-tank?

[Mossie]

I've been dealing with a Valom Airacuda and its problems for a while now so if you want info on the pit falls,
or any other info let me know. My build has to OOB for a review, so the badly molded exhaust system
is causing a major problem.

P.S. I've not forgotten about the sanding/finishing films, things have been a bit pear-shaped round her
the last few months, but now that I have studio/shop mostly put back together I'll be able to dig the stuff-out
and post it off.

p.s.s. dump the pusher/gunner nacelle and replace the lot with P-40 front ends, a belly gun and fixed
aft-shooting guns in the trailing edge of the wing. 

Jon, any info on the kits pitfalls & also any info in your archives as to how the YFM-1A's tricycle undercarriage differs from the other variants, would be very gratefully recieved.

Thank you for still thinking about the sanding films, it's very generous of you!

I was eyeing up a P-38 in the new branch of Modelzone (a much needed diversion from the Christmas shopping nightmare) in Hull for just the purpose of robbing it's Alison's.  I might see if I can find a couple of Hobby Boss P-40B's for a slightly earlier look.  I'd like to do something different with it, but it might not happen as I've got too many projects on the go at the mo.

How about Coastal Command or SEAC?  The repository of all things not wanted.

Definately an option Nev.  I was also thinking Russian also, since they turned another derided Bell product into a winner, although I'm a little WWII Soviet & RAF'd out after the last two Telford theme's!  Another thought was to use a US standard scheme, but with slighty unusual markings such as Brazilian Air Force (finding those might take a little effort though).

[philp]

Now who do I havce to annoy to get our own subsection of the GBs forum?

Just gotta ask the right guy, thanks Jeff.

[thedarkmaster]

Another thought was to use a US standard scheme, but with slighty unusual markings such as Brazilian Air Force (finding those might take a little effort though).

got some WW II brazilian decals if you need them mate

[Mossie]

got some WW II brazilian decals if you need them mate

Your a Gentleman once again sir!!!  PM incoming.

[GTX]

  Thinking more of converting it into a 72nd vehicle of somekind, maybe a space exploration vehicle searching for water on Mars

I'm liking your thinking!!!!

Regards,

Greg