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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

kitnut617

Okayyyy!  I think I'll wait until this lot thins out a bit ----
If I'm not building models, I'm out riding my dirtbike

sandiego89

Quote from: Old Wombat on March 22, 2022, 06:47:29 AM
Interesting leader & ever more intriguing equal second-place holders. :unsure: :thumbsup:

It is interesting as always, some I am rooting for.....some not so much....., and I hope that it is folks that are actually planning to enter these GB's are the ones voting!  ;)
Dave "Sandiego89"
Chesapeake, Virginia, USA

kitbasher

Definitely a mix of peloton followed by stragglers at the moment.  I wonder whether the leading pack will change very much between now and the end of round 1 voting?
What If? & Secret Project SIG member.
On the go: Beaumaris/Battle/Bronco/Barracuda/F-105(UK)/Flatning/Hellcat IV/Hunter PR11/Hurricane IIb/Ice Cream Tank/JP T4/Jumo MiG-15/M21/P1103 (early)/P1127/P1154-ish/Phantom FG1/I-153/Sea Hawk T7/Spitfire XII/Spitfire Tr18/Twin Otter/FrankenCOIN/Frankenfighter

NARSES2

Quote from: kitbasher on March 23, 2022, 12:43:22 AM
I wonder whether the leading pack will change very much between now and the end of round 1 voting?

I think there's still a chance a couple of others could join the leading pack and thus Round 2, but we will see.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Nick

I'm looking at it to get some ideas for kits. There are several GBs with votes in the 12-15 range.

Seems to me that the Lightning, Hunter, Canberra GB is just a limited version of the Fifties GB  :unsure:

NARSES2

Quote from: Nick on March 23, 2022, 06:58:21 AM

Seems to me that the Lightning, Hunter, Canberra GB is just a limited version of the Fifties GB  :unsure:

More 60's I would have thought Nick ?
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

McColm

Or it could mean the modern day equivalent.

AeroplaneDriver

Quote from: McColm on March 23, 2022, 07:09:17 AM
Or it could mean the modern day equivalent.

90s Foxhunter Canberra with about 20 AMRAAMS...   :wub:
So I got that going for me...which is nice....

Old Wombat

Quote from: AeroplaneDriver on March 23, 2022, 09:21:59 AM
Quote from: McColm on March 23, 2022, 07:09:17 AM
Or it could mean the modern day equivalent.

90s Foxhunter Canberra with about 20 AMRAAMS...   :wub:

That sounds like a great idea! ;D :thumbsup:

I shall wait patiently for you to produce it!


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

AeroplaneDriver

Quote from: Old Wombat on March 23, 2022, 05:16:39 PM
Quote from: AeroplaneDriver on March 23, 2022, 09:21:59 AM
Quote from: McColm on March 23, 2022, 07:09:17 AM
Or it could mean the modern day equivalent.

90s Foxhunter Canberra with about 20 AMRAAMS...   :wub:

That sounds like a great idea! ;D :thumbsup:

I shall wait patiently for you to produce it!




Challenge accepted good Sir...if this GB makes it I seal build it!  Kit is in the stash screaming to be built. 
So I got that going for me...which is nice....

zenrat

Quote from: Nick on March 23, 2022, 06:58:21 AM
I'm looking at it to get some ideas for kits. There are several GBs with votes in the 12-15 range.

Seems to me that the Lightning, Hunter, Canberra GB is just a limited version of the Fifties GB  :unsure:

It was my suggestion.  I made it because it struck me that those are the three aircraft a lot of people here get most excited about.
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 24, 2022, 03:57:54 AM
Quote from: Nick on March 23, 2022, 06:58:21 AM
I'm looking at it to get some ideas for kits. There are several GBs with votes in the 12-15 range.

Seems to me that the Lightning, Hunter, Canberra GB is just a limited version of the Fifties GB  :unsure:

It was my suggestion.  I made it because it struck me that those are the three aircraft a lot of people here get most excited about.

Yup and 3 that give you a lot of scope. It's a good suggestion  :thumbsup:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

PR19_Kit

How about cross-kitting all three of them............?  ;D
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Old Wombat

Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 24, 2022, 03:29:32 PM
How about cross-kitting all three of them............?  ;D

Would certainly be within the scope of the GB & it'd be interesting to see how many 3-way cross-kitting versions there were. ;)
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

sandiego89

Dastardly proposal, give everyone just one or two votes when the list gets narrowed.  Perhaps like noted below with too many votes do we just end up with a rehash of the first poll????  Hmmm

I do hope we end up with at least one tighter theme- I do enjoy those the most. 
Dave "Sandiego89"
Chesapeake, Virginia, USA