Neo Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 3 hours ago, jenshb said: The Nordic Connection - aircraft from the the Nordic countries; Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. Could be expanded to include aircraft that were long-term based there, e.g. 57th FIS Eagles and Phantoms based at Keflavik, or German Bf109s at the Petsamo front or Fw190s based at Herdla. If one was extra generous, one could include RAF aircraft sent to Norway for winter exercises with the white wash camo... Jens Dont forget canada! ivanmoe and Alain Gadbois 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
europapete Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 How about a Kotare Spitfire build? RadBaron, MARU5137, Pete Roberts and 5 others 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenshb Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 8 hours ago, Neo said: Dont forget canada! Although Canada has arcit regions, it's not really part of what is referred to as the Nordic countries. Scandinavia is technically just Norway and Sweden (the Scandinavian peninsula), but Denmark (excluding Greeland) is included because of a common history between the three countries. Iceland and Finland are not counted among the Scandinavian countries, but part of the Nordic countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 3 hours ago, jenshb said: Although Canada has arcit regions, it's not really part of what is referred to as the Nordic countries. Scandinavia is technically just Norway and Sweden (the Scandinavian peninsula), but Denmark (excluding Greeland) is included because of a common history between the three countries. Iceland and Finland are not counted among the Scandinavian countries, but part of the Nordic countries. Haha sry meant it as a joke since we get solid cold winters here MARU5137 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
europapete Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 Hmm...here's a thought. How about a "Skill Set" group build. Choose any subject you want, but in your build log you have to show , In Detail, how you achieved something. Like say, chipping, flawless seam fillng, crystal clear canopy, REALLY good panel lines or perfect riveting. Or an ultra smooth paint finish, or masking and painting markings. You get the idea. Only show in detail how you did one thing, otherwise the build logs would be 3 miles long and take forever. Regards, Pete in RI Rick Griewski, RadBaron, Lee White and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenshb Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 3 hours ago, Neo said: Haha sry meant it as a joke since we get solid cold winters here As they do in Sibiria...:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 1 hour ago, europapete said: Hmm...here's a thought. How about a "Skill Set" group build. Choose any subject you want, but in your build log you have to show , In Detail, how you achieved something. Like say, chipping, flawless seam fillng, crystal clear canopy, REALLY good panel lines or perfect riveting. Or an ultra smooth paint finish, or masking and painting markings. You get the idea. Only show in detail how you did one thing, otherwise the build logs would be 3 miles long and take forever. Regards, Pete in RI I really like that idea Pete. It is massively wide ranging and let’s us all experiment with a skill. europapete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 Have movie aircraft been done recently as a group build? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phartycr0c Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 Throwing hat in, how about "(set budget) group build" a reasonable budget is set eg £50 retail price is set and a kit up to that price purchased or extracted from the stash and built. I dunno just a suggestion. MARU5137 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 On 9/2/2022 at 11:22 AM, BiggTim said: I'm not much for group builds, but I think it would be fun to have a monochrome build - all black and white schemes, as a few of our members have done beautifully here. Learning a new technique that most of us haven't tried might be interesting. The NMF idea might do this as well, providing it required the use of foil. Tweek the requirements to shades of black and shades of white grey then I am on with a Luftwaffe night fighter. So far o hate foil for NMF. Maybe I could try again. I remember that it was tedious; similar to rolling on rivets. MARU5137 and BiggTim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 On 9/21/2022 at 9:41 AM, europapete said: Hmm...here's a thought. How about a "Skill Set" group build. Choose any subject you want, but in your build log you have to show , In Detail, how you achieved something. Like say, chipping, flawless seam fillng, crystal clear canopy, REALLY good panel lines or perfect riveting. Or an ultra smooth paint finish, or masking and painting markings. You get the idea. Only show in detail how you did one thing, otherwise the build logs would be 3 miles long and take forever. Regards, Pete in RI I like this idea. Someone could show us soup to nuts, CAD to stencils methods how you make painting masks etc. europapete, Alain Gadbois, MARU5137 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
europapete Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 YES! How to use a mask making machine! Thanks, Rick! MARU5137 and Alain Gadbois 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padubon Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 Gents, 1. I like the shark mouth suggestion. 2. Bare metal any country. 3. Combat aircraft that participated in action against the country of manufacturing. 4. Ridiculously armed warbirds. 5. Exaggerated nose art. Neo, Archimedes and MARU5137 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 Tag Team Build Gazzas and I for example are fond of and are are building the Avro Anson vac kit. This is a slow process. The kit is a beast. We would build our two kits at the same time essentially trading sub-assemblies, accessories, drawings of parts such as the landing gear to build from. For example I will bebuilding engine master parts and casting copies. I would cast parts from masters he would make. I bet our approaches to the build are different so that would make it interesting. This may not work for others at model building is usually a one brain hobby. We will need to see if LSP mods will let us share post to the same thread. Or figure out another way. My Anson is not a contest build so parts and pieces built or designed by Gazzas will only speed up the build. Gazzas, Archimedes and MARU5137 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 23 hours ago, europapete said: YES! How to use a mask making machine! Thanks, Rick! I did some of that here (see page 9 of the thread): On my Mustang build. But happy to dig in deeper once I get back to modeling and need to make masks for the next project... europapete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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