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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #250 on: October 13, 2016, 08:15:11 PM »
International GB: By mixing up some 1/700th kits you could do a Type 42 destroyer with US weapons and sensors.

Mk 13 instead of Sea Dart
5" Mk 45 instead of 4.5" Mk.8
2 x SPG-51 trackers in place of the forward Type 909 and the Type 965
SPS-39 or -52 in place of the aft Type 909
Seasprite helo instead of Lynx

Already got one of them but stuffed the paint job.  Its a MLU RAN DDL replacement with an enlarged hanger and a CEAFAR radar mast as well as the Mk-13 and Mk-45.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #251 on: November 06, 2016, 04:02:08 AM »
How about a drone/UAV/unmanned whatever GB?
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #252 on: November 06, 2016, 04:05:19 AM »
How about a drone/UAV/unmanned whatever GB?

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #253 on: November 11, 2016, 10:07:33 AM »
Saw this idea in a car group- year of birth builds.
Meaning the year you were born , pick a subject and build it.  I realize this is much harder in a group with wide interests and real world vs whiff might be hard to prove and futuristic stuff just gies right out the window. But I think it still might have some merit.
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #254 on: November 27, 2016, 04:40:36 AM »
Some old ideas brought back from the dead + some new ones:

  • "Vive la résistance!" GB  - e.g. French Revolution (and all derivatives/extrapolations of...either way), Soviet/communist revolution, etc etc - also inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917 (some 100yrs ago once we are in 2017)
  • Profile GB - Either a physical model based on an existing profile, or a new profile based on an existing profile
  • "End of the World as we know it" GB - WW3/Post Apocalyptic - I'm sure you get the idea...Zombies also allowed
  • Saab Viggen GB - given the first flight of the iconic Saab Viggen occurred in 1967, some 50 years ago (once we are in 2017)
  • Boeing 737 GB - given the first flight of the Boeing 737 occurred in 1967, some 50 years ago (once we are in 2017)
  • F-111 GB or even a wider Swing Wings GB - given the F-111 first entered operational service in 1967 and the MiG-23 first flew, some 50 years ago (once we are in 2017)
  • Any other single platform (be that an aircraft, vehicle or ship) GB - we just need to decide which one
  • Racing Theme GB - e.g. Reno racers, F1 cars etc etc
  • Drop Tank GB - need I say more?
  • 6 day (just to be different from 1 week...though a 1 day extension might be allowed) GB - inspired by it being the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war
  • April Fool's GB - a revisit of this classic
  • A whiffer's Tiger Meet GB - bring out that orange and black paint!
  • A Punked GB - Steam & Diesel punk specifically
  • The Fear and Trepidation GB - in other words, a GB for those aspects of the hobby you are scared of (for whatever reason).  It could be doing a Vacuform kit or perhaps a resin one.  Maybe it is doing a figurine?  Or doing a profile?  Or writing a backstory?  Maybe it is doing a diorama or trying to model water?  Whatever the fear, why not use this GB as an excuse to move out of your comfort zone and finally conquer that fear. 
  • World War in the '20s/'30s GB
  • "Make it Bright" GB with lots of bright schemes or similar
  • Book or Movie inspired GB
  • The Spat it (or unspat it...sorry Brian) GB
  • Fledgling Eagle (i.e. trainer aircraft) GB
  • "Let's Go Nuclear" GB
  • 'Extended Cold War'GB

What other ideas do you have>

 
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #255 on: November 27, 2016, 05:45:29 AM »
So many to choose from and all very good themes!
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #256 on: November 27, 2016, 08:00:40 AM »
I do like the swingers GB ;)

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #257 on: November 27, 2016, 08:03:44 AM »
I do like the swingers GB ;)

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #258 on: November 27, 2016, 08:09:06 AM »
IT could just be anything with variable geometry wings, or alternatively anything crewed by SAC if the rumours are true.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #259 on: November 27, 2016, 08:22:16 AM »
Winter wonderland. Anything used during winter warfare. Has to have some sort of white camo on it.
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #260 on: November 27, 2016, 08:31:30 AM »
How about exploration and pioneering GB?  Civil and military expeditions into the unknown over the centuries or even into the future (space, deep ocean, subterranean etc.)

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #261 on: November 27, 2016, 08:45:54 AM »
Some old ideas brought back from the dead + some new ones:

  • "Vive la résistance!" GB  - e.g. French Revolution (and all derivatives/extrapolations of...either way), Soviet/communist revolution, etc etc - also inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917 (some 100yrs ago once we are in 2017)
  • Saab Viggen GB - given the first flight of the iconic Saab Viggen occurred in 1967, some 50 years ago (once we are in 2017)
  • Boeing 737 GB - given the first flight of the Boeing 737 occurred in 1967, some 50 years ago (once we are in 2017)
  • F-111 GB or even a wider Swing Wings GB - given the F-111 first entered operational service in 1967 and the MiG-23 first flew, some 50 years ago (once we are in 2017)
  • 6 day (just to be different from 1 week...though a 1 day extension might be allowed) GB - inspired by it being the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war

What other ideas do you have>

Any plane/ship/armor/vehicle which was first flown/floated/sunk/driven or special anniversary in a year which has a 7 in it.
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #262 on: December 04, 2016, 05:32:42 AM »
Keep the ideas coming folks - I aim to set up a poll in the next few weeks.
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #263 on: December 20, 2016, 02:00:29 AM »
After looking around the forum, I see WW2 space fighters, a tank with fins and a flying saucer made from...Saucers. Maybe a retro futuristic group build is in order?
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #264 on: December 20, 2016, 03:02:39 AM »
Added to the list!

Folks,

Please submit your other ideas!!! >:(
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #265 on: December 20, 2016, 05:21:34 AM »
A lot of 50ths in there! A lot was going on in 1967.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #266 on: December 20, 2016, 05:28:56 AM »
O0 We are Already "Go" for the 100th Anniversary of the USSR right?   O0

damn fine suggestion - might expand to "All things Soviet"
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #267 on: December 20, 2016, 05:56:15 PM »
looking at my stash I think we need a all things Floaty GB again.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #268 on: December 20, 2016, 05:57:08 PM »
Damn, I know I should have ordered that Kirov that was on sale at BNA!

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #269 on: December 20, 2016, 09:25:53 PM »
I like the Exploration/Pioneering and Retro-Futuristic GB ideas a lot.

Oddly, I don't have any ideas of my own to offer, but I'll keep pondering...

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #270 on: December 20, 2016, 09:57:12 PM »
O0 We are Already "Go" for the 100th Anniversary of the USSR right?   O0

damn fine suggestion - might expand to "All things Soviet"
The What-If Forum is running one too

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #271 on: December 20, 2016, 11:45:48 PM »
O0 We are Already "Go" for the 100th Anniversary of the USSR right?   O0

damn fine suggestion - might expand to "All things Soviet"
The What-If Forum is running one too


Thank's for the head up.

Do we think people would be ok with cross posting here too? Or would it be redundant?

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #272 on: December 21, 2016, 02:51:04 AM »
We can let the people decide (in a poll) comrade...
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #273 on: December 21, 2016, 11:26:05 PM »
I had the idea of doing a Russian version of every teen fighter, then I realized I almost had already, just the F-15 left which would be easy.

 O0 so I know where one of my votes is going  O0
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #274 on: December 24, 2016, 12:47:17 AM »
What about "weird wings" ?? Anything with unconventional wings (stuka, corsair) or FSW (x-29, berkut)or rotors (v-22, v-280, treiebflug) or no wings (f5u flap jack)

It's kind of an open subject, up to the builder/designer to explain or justify what makes the wing "weird"
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