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Group Build 2022/2023 First Poll.

Started by NARSES2, March 20, 2022, 03:45:09 AM

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Round One of the 2022/2023 GB Subject Poll - pick up to 15 for entry into Round 2

"Liberty, Freedom, and Independence". The model subjects would be anything from any country that fought for such.
6 (14%)
Eighties forever!": Anything that could have been operational in the 1980's, old, new and refurbished beyond recognition.
18 (41.9%)
"Cold War Frozen": What if the Berlin wall never fell? Would all fighters still have been air superiority grey? What equipment would the east European countries have used?
9 (20.9%)
"NATO without the USA": US never gets involved in NATO. Rather, UK, France and West Germany forms the core of a pact against the Russians.
8 (18.6%)
"Slava Ukraini!": Anything blue and yellow.
9 (20.9%)
Heliplanes, tilt-engines and tilt wings with two or more engines.
9 (20.9%)
Aerial water bombers,  those planes and helicopters that put out forest fires
8 (18.6%)
Alternative liveries or paint schemes on railway coaches or carriages
4 (9.3%)
The Brabazon Committee. Real and alternative proposals.
4 (9.3%)
An alternative British V-Bomber Force.
10 (23.3%)
Alternatives AWACS, AEW, Maritime surveillance and ASW types.
10 (23.3%)
Submersible tanks and AFV's. Armoured vehicles that can travel on a riverbed, under a river or under compact ice.
2 (4.7%)
Flying aircraft carriers. Including parasitic fighters/bombers and their carriers.
8 (18.6%)
Cars converted into pickup trucks but not on a production line or from the original manufacturer.
1 (2.3%)
Falklands 40th Anniversary GB.  Enter something from the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas conflict.
13 (30.2%)
Tropic of Cancer GB.  Enter something is service along the tropic of Cancer. Any time period, civil or military. Get the atlas out! some countries are well known, some more obscure.
9 (20.9%)
The Logistics GB.  "The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics" Napoleon Bonaparte.  Enter something that primarily serves in a transport/logistics role.
17 (39.5%)
Expatriate units and formations - Expeditionary Forces GB. Either such units based within the UK or overseas units which were/are part of the UK's Forces.
5 (11.6%)
Governments in exile. For example either Foreign Governments based in the UK or British Governments in Exile.
6 (14%)
Lend-Lease GB. Either equipment on loan to the UK or being loaned by UK Government to another government
13 (30.2%)
Air Ferries
5 (11.6%)
Round warships. There were some round ironclad designs so just take it farther
2 (4.7%)
Submersible warships. Not just submarines but all types of submersible warship
1 (2.3%)
Mach2 kit whiffery Whiff a Mach 2 kit
6 (14%)
Space 2023, the follow up series of the TV show Space 1999
4 (9.3%)
Are Thunderbirds Go ? Alternative whiffery based around Gerry Anderson
8 (18.6%)
The Wizarding World of vehicles, muggle vehicles jinxed with other attachments
3 (7%)
Raiders of the spare parts bin; a kitbash delight as it doesn't have to resemble any Real World man made objects.
12 (27.9%)
Swords into ploughshares. Bombers into airliners, frigates into survey ships etc
8 (18.6%)
The it'll never work GB or the "What the hell were they on ?" GB
10 (23.3%)
The Civil War GB. Either a historical conflict or a fictional one.
5 (11.6%)
Tophe's Delight GB. Asymmetric or Twin Boom types, or types which combine both attributes.
6 (14%)
Amphibious GB
7 (16.3%)
The Lightning, Hunter or Canberra GB
15 (34.9%)
The Fifties GB. Anything designed, proposed, built or used between Jan 1st 1950 and Dec 31st 1959
18 (41.9%)
Steampunk, dieselpunk, atompunk and cyberpunk GB
10 (23.3%)
The decade you were born in GB. Build a model representative of the decade in which you were born.
14 (32.6%)
Scrapheap Challenge GB".....Build something using only parts from your spare parts/scrap box(es) to make any sort of unlikely device.
8 (18.6%)
In the steps of.... GB" eg :-  In the steps of Salvador Dali (surreal) Kit Spackman(longer wings) Rowland Emmett (completely off the wall)  Bill Cody (sticks and string everywhere)  John De Lorean (cars with funny doors) etc
2 (4.7%)
The Wider still and Wider GB"..........allowing for instance broad gauge trains, wide bodied, flying wing  or Zwilling aircraft, vast crawler vehicles or even multiple hulled ships.
5 (11.6%)
The re-engined GB: Anything with a (visibly) different engine than in real life.
12 (27.9%)
The anachronism GB: for instance WW2 aircraft in modern livery or vice versa
12 (27.9%)
The part swap GB: Take two kits and assemble two models using parts of each. For instance wings of one on the fuselage of the other
8 (18.6%)
The "Colour" GB: Choose a colour (red, black, blue.....only ONE colour) for the GB and everyone builds something with predominantly that colour) If this gets through to Round 2 I'll work out how to include it
3 (7%)
The Lengthen it GB: Build something with longer wings, a longer car a longer hull etc
10 (23.3%)
Everyone the same kit GB. Pick a kit everyone can buy and afford (a 1/72 Spit?) and everyone builds a whif version of that kit.
10 (23.3%)
The 1946 GB
15 (34.9%)
Science Fiction GB
16 (37.2%)
Rivet counting GB.  The finished object must feature prominent rivets on at least x square cm of its surface.
1 (2.3%)
The Paint it Black GB
3 (7%)
The Rainbow GB
1 (2.3%)
The Woody GB. The model must have fake or real wood on the bodywork
4 (9.3%)
Iced GB. The model that you choose must look like or can be made out of ice. This includes jelly moulds or any other mould. The ice can be coloured or made to look like its coloured.
1 (2.3%)
Nuclear powered GB. Any vehicle who's main source of a power/propulsion is a nuclear reactor.
7 (16.3%)
Land or water speed record attempt vehicles.
6 (14%)
The Regional GB. If this is chosen to go forward into the second round of voting then that second round will include each continent as a separate choice, eg: Africa, Asia etc.
11 (25.6%)
The Small Nations GB.
14 (32.6%)
Airliners - create your own airline, give an existing airline machines they didn't have, invent brand new passenger aircraft.
15 (34.9%)
1942/2022 - 80th Anniversary of Three Major WWII turning points - Midway, Stalingrad, El Alamein.
7 (16.3%)

Total Members Voted: 43

Voting closed: March 30, 2022, 03:45:09 AM

Old Wombat

Four equal leaders at this point in time. :thumbsup:
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

"The purpose of all War is Peace" - St. Augustine

veritas ad mortus veritas est

NARSES2

Quote from: Old Wombat on March 24, 2022, 11:58:57 PM
Four equal leaders at this point in time. :thumbsup:

Yup, but it's only the semi-final. All finalists start off on even footings again.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Old Wombat

Too true! But it's always interesting to watch a close match! ;)
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

"The purpose of all War is Peace" - St. Augustine

veritas ad mortus veritas est

NARSES2

Just a reminder that I'll be locking this down and preparing Round 2 in a couple of days
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Pellson

Quote from: NARSES2 on March 27, 2022, 05:47:53 AM
Just a reminder that I'll be locking this down and preparing Round 2 in a couple of days

Splendid job, mate! Thank you for treating us to it like this!  :wub:
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

NARSES2

Last call lads. I'll be closing this tomorrow, 31st March.

Chris
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Rheged

Quote from: Pellson on March 27, 2022, 06:10:01 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 27, 2022, 05:47:53 AM
Just a reminder that I'll be locking this down and preparing Round 2 in a couple of days

Splendid job, mate! Thank you for treating us to it like this!  :wub:

I agree wholeheartedly with the  Swedish  gentleman!!     Thank you, Chris, award yourself an extra glass of Merlot/Shiraz/Cabernet  as a reward for your work on our behalf.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

kitbasher

What If? & Secret Project SIG member.
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zenrat

Thanks Chris.

I would be happy to just take the top three as they are.  But it'll be interesting to see how people's choices change when forced to be more limited in their voting.  Can I suggest limiting us to three ones only in part two?
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

NARSES2

Quote from: zenrat on March 31, 2022, 04:06:56 AM
Thanks Chris.

I would be happy to just take the top three as they are.  But it'll be interesting to see how people's choices change when forced to be more limited in their voting.  Can I suggest limiting us to three ones only in part two?

Depends how many options there are, but I can see the point of limiting to 3 votes, so I may well go that way.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

NARSES2

Right gentlemen, that's it for Round 1. I'll be locking this thread now and kicking Round 2 off in the next day or so, hopefully tomorrow 1st April, and I'll give you a couple of weeks.

Chris
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.