The Old Kit GB - Rules discussion

[NARSES2]

Those Monogram 60's era kits were outstanding for their time and still hold up well in the Revell boxings. I've lots of fond memories of Christmas and a Monogram 1/48th aircraft  .

[zenrat]

Right.  I've finished adding original mould dates to my stash spreadsheet.  I think i've worn Scalemates out.
40% of my stash dates from before 1985.
The oldest is a 1956 box scale Revell kit which I am thinking of combining with a 1957 (or '72 - can't be sure) Airfix.
That's in addition to the Beaufighter Trimotor using the 1958 Airfix mould.

[Spey_Phantom]

i have a smaller number of old 30+ year old kits, i have a a few ideas with them.
count me in 

[NARSES2]

Right.  I've finished adding original mould dates to my stash spreadsheet.  I think i've worn Scalemates out.

Must admit I could really do with sorting a spreadsheet out for my stash. What categories do you have on yours ?

[loupgarou]

Right.  I've finished adding original mould dates to my stash spreadsheet.  I think i've worn Scalemates out.

Must admit I could really do with sorting a spreadsheet out for my stash. What categories do you have on yours ?

If it's of any help, I use an Excel file for my kits, and columns are:
Brand / Make / Model / Cat No / Scale / Quantity / Price paid  /Photo / Box type / Notes
like this:
ITC / Martin / MB-2   / 3725 /  78 / I   / XXX / P   / full art / missing decals

where make is the original aircraft manufacturer. As I am mostly a collector, box type is important for me, and I snap a photo of each kit to avoid duplications, if possible. For a pure builder, I suppose photo and box type columns are unnecessary.

[NARSES2]

Cheers

[Green Dragon]

If I get my mojo back and my butt in gear I'll have a go. Have loads of qualifying kits, current thoughts are a kit-bash of Matchbox F4U Corsair, EE Lightning & F7U Tigercat (F7U may be changed to something else coz I'm reluctant to chop up my T/cat). Jet He219 (Revell) with bits from EE Lightning, F-105 & YF16 also being considered. Both inspired by a Japanese animated movie.

Paul Harrison

[TheChronicOne]

If I get my mojo back and my butt in gear I'll have a go. Have loads of qualifying kits, current thoughts are a kit-bash of Matchbox F4U Corsair, EE Lightning & F7U Tigercat (F7U may be changed to something else coz I'm reluctant to chop up my T/cat). Jet He219 (Revell) with bits from EE Lightning, F-105 & YF16 also being considered. Both inspired by a Japanese animated movie.

Paul Harrison

Let's do it!! You can get your mojo back and this is my first ever GB! A rookie and a vet giving it a whirl.. it'll be fun.   

[PR19_Kit]

If I can ever find some time to model again I've had a project that suits this GB in hand for ages!

The bits have even appeared in a thread on here already but as I haven't actually glued anything together I guess it qualifies, the basic kit being the FROG Sea Vixen of waaaaaay back when.

[zenrat]

Right.  I've finished adding original mould dates to my stash spreadsheet.  I think i've worn Scalemates out.

Must admit I could really do with sorting a spreadsheet out for my stash. What categories do you have on yours ?

If it's of any help, I use an Excel file for my kits, and columns are:
Brand / Make / Model / Cat No / Scale / Quantity / Price paid  /Photo / Box type / Notes
like this:
ITC / Martin / MB-2   / 3725 /  78 / I   / XXX / P   / full art / missing decals

where make is the original aircraft manufacturer. As I am mostly a collector, box type is important for me, and I snap a photo of each kit to avoid duplications, if possible. For a pure builder, I suppose photo and box type columns are unnecessary.

I have Aircraft/Manufacturer (of kit)/Date of Mould/Modifications/Schemes/Thoughts & Notes
The last 3 being sort of interchangeable but generally Ideas go in thoughts and notes and then get moved into schemes and modifications as they firm up.  I also put in modifications details of which parts I have pinched already.

[NARSES2]

Slight change to the rules because I can't read a calendar 

1st Oct is a Saturday not Tuesday !

Cheers Mossie 

[Weaver]

Okay I missed the In The Navy GB entirely due to a combination of illness, events, DIY attacks and lost mojo, but having reacquired the latter, I would like to do the following model for Old Kit GB please.

It's the Hasegawa Grumman Cougar, which dates from 1978 and is therefore well within the 1985 cut off point, Scalemates link here: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/137596-hasegawa-b23-grumman-f9f-8-cougar

However it's part-started. The upper wings have been glued onto the lowers, the cockpit front and aft bulkheads have been glued in, the two halves of the seat have been glued together, a couple of small spacers have been glued into the fuselage, and some grey paint (undercoat) has been sprayed around. Picture below:



Is this level of part-started acceptable? No problem if it isn't, I'll just do the Tiger that came after it.

[kitbasher]

PM inbound.

[Tophe]

I'm afraid I can't work out how to include stories or profiles in an old kit GB so I think this GB will be purely for models.

A suggestion Chris:  Any profile subjects should date before 1986, you can use modern liveries if you wish  "Kitbashed" profiles should be same as plastic, i.e. 60% should be of a subject dating before 1986.  Anything sci-fi should be of a style before then.  Alt histories should take place before then too.

I imagine another possible way: no computer work (computers were very rare in homes in 1985) but pencil work only, on paper (pencil and paper were tools of the middle age!), could that be an addendum to the rules? (ahem, of course to be presented here on a web forum, the pencil-paper work should be scanned or photographed and there were no scanners nor cameras in the middle age, but this is the same for models; a model tooled in 1980 and photographed with a new camera of 2015 is acceptable I think)

[TheChronicOne]

Here's a possible suggestion: One wanting to do a profile must choose an actual kit that fits the criteria, then, whip up a profile based on said subject-matter/kit.