2023/2024 Season Call For Ideas

[Rheged]

14) King Charles III's transport fleet

Presidents and royalty have dedicated modes of transport, so any real world or whatifs built especially for the new King

May I slightly adjust this suggestion to "Royal/ Presidential Transport"  ,  which allows for  variations on that old Heller kit of a Viking ship in your stash, Siamese Imperial Elephants, Aerospace Force One, a steampunk creation that Price Albert might have developed  for Victoria had he not died an untimely death,  Chinese emperor Wan Hu's flying chair,  a selection of Rolls Royces and Daimlers............................................

...............................and didn't a Himalayan kingdom once have a Skyvan as a Royal conveyance?


Or perhaps this is too wide a topic.

I think it's open to plenty if creativity

I think my VIP GB suggestion would cover all eventualities

Yep!

Indeed.  I'll happily defer to the VIP GB  suggestion as all of the items I initially mentioned would fit nicely!

[Weaver]

I'll offer this one again:

The James Bond GB:
Build a what-if vehicle, gadget or building that's intended to feature in a James Bond movie. Your model might be an alternative version of something that appeared in a real James Bond movie (for example, put the real Aston Martin DB6 mods onto a Jag E-type, or the Lotus Esprit mods onto a Ferrari), or you can make up an entirely new James Bond movie of your own, that might be a 'straight' entry in the canon, OR a parody thereof.

Lots of scope here for aircraft, cars, boats, trucks, subs, spacecraft, buildings, even 1:1 scale props! It's got a clear focus (pleases me) but it's accessible to everyone (pleases mods), so people should be able to take part whatever their taste.

[loupgarou]

Rivers & Lakes

Anything that goes on rivers or lakes;
                                        River/Lake Racing Boats
                                        Seaplanes/Flying Boats
                                        River Gunboats
                                        Great Lakes Steamers
                                        Kayaks/Canoes
                                        Float Rigged Helicopters
                                        Etc.

Well that would include aircraft carriers (see https://militaryhistorynow.com/2016/08/29/fresh-water-flattops-the-u-s-navys-forgotten-great-lakes-aircraft-carriers/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wolverine_(IX-64) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sable_(IX-81)) and submarines (https://www.ussjpkennedyjr.org/the-united-states-navys-submarine-presence-in-the-great-lakes/), then!

Yes, it would.

I forgot to mention dry or seasonal lakes, like Lake Eyre in South Australia or Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where one might attempt Land Speed Records!

As long as they are FRESHWATER subs and carriers...

[Weaver]

Rivers & Lakes

Anything that goes on rivers or lakes;
                                        River/Lake Racing Boats
                                        Seaplanes/Flying Boats
                                        River Gunboats
                                        Great Lakes Steamers
                                        Kayaks/Canoes
                                        Float Rigged Helicopters
                                        Etc.

Presume also that that would include canals?

[perttime]

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It's not popular, but I will (still) throw "Afrcia" in, because it's such an overlooked but vast region. "Middle & South America" might be a similar alternative.
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Something geographic. Africa would work.  Or a sea: the Baltic or Mediterranean, including countries located on them.

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It'll never Work/What were they smoking GB - Stupid and/or ugly and/or weird.  the stupider the idea the better.  Extra points for ridiculousness or building anything from Blackburn or Reliant.               
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That is a totally mad idea 

[Rheged]

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It'll never Work/What were they smoking GB - Stupid and/or ugly and/or weird.  the stupider the idea the better.  Extra points for ridiculousness or building anything from Blackburn or Reliant.               
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That is a totally mad idea 

......................and therefore exactly the sort of thing Whiffery thrives upon!

[scooter]

I'll offer this one again:

The James Bond GB:
Build a what-if vehicle, gadget or building that's intended to feature in a James Bond movie. Your model might be an alternative version of something that appeared in a real James Bond movie (for example, put the real Aston Martin DB6 mods onto a Jag E-type, or the Lotus Esprit mods onto a Ferrari), or you can make up an entirely new James Bond movie of your own, that might be a 'straight' entry in the canon, OR a parody thereof.

Lots of scope here for aircraft, cars, boats, trucks, subs, spacecraft, buildings, even 1:1 scale props! It's got a clear focus (pleases me) but it's accessible to everyone (pleases mods), so people should be able to take part whatever their taste.

Shame I'd kicked off my Jane Bond render series already.  Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[McColm]

I'll offer this one again:

The James Bond GB:
Build a what-if vehicle, gadget or building that's intended to feature in a James Bond movie. Your model might be an alternative version of something that appeared in a real James Bond movie (for example, put the real Aston Martin DB6 mods onto a Jag E-type, or the Lotus Esprit mods onto a Ferrari), or you can make up an entirely new James Bond movie of your own, that might be a 'straight' entry in the canon, OR a parody thereof.

Lots of scope here for aircraft, cars, boats, trucks, subs, spacecraft, buildings, even 1:1 scale props! It's got a clear focus (pleases me) but it's accessible to everyone (pleases mods), so people should be able to take part whatever their taste.

Shame I'd kicked off my Jane Bond render series already.  Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is that the one with David Niven and Bernard Cribbins?

[jcf]

Rivers & Lakes

Anything that goes on rivers or lakes;
                                        River/Lake Racing Boats
                                        Seaplanes/Flying Boats
                                        River Gunboats
                                        Great Lakes Steamers
                                        Kayaks/Canoes
                                        Float Rigged Helicopters
                                        Etc.

Presume also that that would include canals?

SBS narrowboat? 

[Rheged]

Rivers & Lakes

Anything that goes on rivers or lakes;
                                        River/Lake Racing Boats
                                        Seaplanes/Flying Boats
                                        River Gunboats
                                        Great Lakes Steamers
                                        Kayaks/Canoes
                                        Float Rigged Helicopters
                                        Etc.

Presume also that that would include canals?

SBS narrowboat? 

Why not indeed?   

[TomZ]

My 2 cents:

- Out of time: models, markings displayed in a time other than their own. WW1 Spitfire, Modern USAF Mustang, etc.
- Re-engined: Models with visible other engines than original
- Just to get everyone out of their comfort zone: Monster figures

TomZ

[Weaver]

Rivers & Lakes

Anything that goes on rivers or lakes;
                                        River/Lake Racing Boats
                                        Seaplanes/Flying Boats
                                        River Gunboats
                                        Great Lakes Steamers
                                        Kayaks/Canoes
                                        Float Rigged Helicopters
                                        Etc.

Presume also that that would include canals?

SBS narrowboat? 

Well I did snap up a narrowboat model at a local show a few years back...

[Weaver]

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It'll never Work/What were they smoking GB - Stupid and/or ugly and/or weird.  the stupider the idea the better.  Extra points for ridiculousness or building anything from Blackburn or Reliant.               
...

That is a totally mad idea 

......................and therefore exactly the sort of thing Whiffery thrives upon!

I actually suggested something similiar for a few years: The Really Bad Ideas GB. Nuclear-bomber airships, low-winged Harrier variant, close-air-support gliders, that sort of thing...

[scooter]

Has there ever been a Postal GB?

[kitbasher]

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It'll never Work/What were they smoking GB - Stupid and/or ugly and/or weird.  the stupider the idea the better.  Extra points for ridiculousness or building anything from Blackburn or Reliant.               
...

That is a totally mad idea 

......................and therefore exactly the sort of thing Whiffery thrives upon!

I actually suggested something similiar for a few years: The Really Bad Ideas GB. Nuclear-bomber airships, low-winged Harrier variant, close-air-support gliders, that sort of thing...

...
It'll never Work/What were they smoking GB - Stupid and/or ugly and/or weird.  the stupider the idea the better.  Extra points for ridiculousness or building anything from Blackburn or Reliant.               
...

That is a totally mad idea 

......................and therefore exactly the sort of thing Whiffery thrives upon!

For example 'what were they drinking at the 1944 Oktoberfest to come up with Luft '46 designs'?