Author Topic: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds  (Read 225851 times)

Offline Diamondback

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #200 on: February 24, 2013, 06:58:55 AM »
For the record, I was thinking an Eggplane GB could be "Anything Goes", whether WHIF or Straight from the Box, to expand the options. The design's already a bit WHIFfy anyway... :D

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #201 on: February 24, 2013, 09:25:31 AM »
I think that 110 would look a lot better in BP not  Gulf markings.    :)
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #202 on: September 05, 2013, 05:42:20 AM »
I think that 110 would look a lot better in BP not  Gulf markings.    :)

 yeah, but it'd leak all over the place....

Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #203 on: September 22, 2013, 07:41:25 AM »
Some years ago our very demigod GTX suggested a GB titled Create your own fighter (or similar) Why not resurrecting this idea?

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #204 on: September 22, 2013, 03:59:57 PM »
Create your own fighter (or similar)
Does that mean that you have to design a new type, maybe combining existing features, and not "just" paint s real world type in "wrong" colors?

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #205 on: November 24, 2013, 02:30:46 AM »
Idea for consideration:  "Let's go nuclear!" GB

This could include platforms with nuclear weapons or things powered by nuclear power (including tanks, planes, ships, spacecraft etc...)
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #206 on: November 24, 2013, 02:31:22 AM »
Some years ago our very demigod GTX suggested a GB titled Create your own fighter (or similar) Why not resurrecting this idea?

We could but it does become very hard to do for many people.
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Offline Diamondback

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #207 on: November 24, 2013, 02:38:03 AM »
Idea for consideration:  "Let's go nuclear!" GB

This could include platforms with nuclear weapons or things powered by nuclear power (including tanks, planes, ships, spacecraft etc...)
Well, that monster my old prof and I hatched WAS designed to ultimately pack a fusion reactor as electrical needs grew for things like new sensors, cloaking device, etc....

Offline Volkodav

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #208 on: November 24, 2013, 10:10:20 AM »
Idea for consideration:  "Let's go nuclear!" GB

This could include platforms with nuclear weapons or things powered by nuclear power (including tanks, planes, ships, spacecraft etc...)

Perfect opportunity to start lopping funnels off various ships to develop nuc versions i.e. Bainbridge and Truxtun.  Maybe a euro equivalent?

Offline Cliffy B

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #209 on: November 24, 2013, 10:30:04 AM »
Give me an excuse to finally build my version of a 1990's CSGN; I'm game  8)
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Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #210 on: November 24, 2013, 10:34:10 AM »
I could at least contribute a B-51 to a nuclear weapons/power GB.

Cheers,

Logan

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #211 on: November 24, 2013, 10:44:55 AM »
One of the aspects I like is that it would allow all those Atoms for Peace ideas to be considered.
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #212 on: December 06, 2013, 10:17:30 AM »
"Let's Go Nuclear" could also include non-nuclear nations armed with nuclear weapons.

Australia & New Zealand spring to mind.
(ANZMAD - Australia & New Zealand Mutually Assured Destruction - especially after an All Blacks/Wallabies rugby match. ;D )

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Offline Spey Phantom

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #213 on: December 07, 2013, 10:28:08 PM »
ive been playing with the idea for a Euro'41 GB.

the idea is simple, a lot of US/GB allies bought equipment in preperation of the oncoming blitzkrieg..
but many of those aircraft were not able to be delivered in time (for example, Dutch Fokker D-XXIII, more Fokker G.1's and Douglas DB-8's, Belgian Brewster B339's and Douglas DB-7's, French Spitfire's,......)

i think it would make a nice GB subject  8)
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #214 on: December 09, 2013, 03:35:33 AM »
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Offline ysi_maniac

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #215 on: December 20, 2013, 11:43:36 AM »
 know that there is an unarmed GB but what about a more specific Civil GB os NonMilitary GB?

For the next voting, of course.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #216 on: December 21, 2013, 03:15:52 AM »
know that there is an unarmed GB but what about a more specific Civil GB os NonMilitary GB?

For the next voting, of course.

I see them as the same thing
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Offline Daryl J.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #217 on: December 23, 2013, 04:56:28 AM »
Snoops, sensors, spies, etc......includes recce aircraft?
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #218 on: December 23, 2013, 04:57:31 AM »
Snoops, sensors, spies, etc......includes recce aircraft?

I would think so…under the "Snoop" or "Spies" category.
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Offline Volkodav

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #219 on: January 01, 2014, 09:03:41 AM »
I really wish I had thought of this earlier, the Soviet 1991 August coup succeeds, i.e. they arrest Yeltsin as originally planned, and the cold war heats up and then continues for another decade or so.

For example:
F-22, Typhoon, Rafale etc. proceed to their original schedules, enter service in the mid to late 90s and are mass produced
A-12 and other advanced platforms are not cancelled (no F/A-18E/F/G)
MV-22 is pushed into service earlier
AAAV (EFV) is deployed.
140mm NATO tank guns
Mass production of Seawolf SSNs

Basically no peace dividend, no massive cut back in defence spending or delay / cancelation of projects until a decade or more later.  Lots of the fanciful and real stuff on both sides is built and replacement projects started.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #220 on: January 03, 2014, 01:49:22 AM »
I really wish I had thought of this earlier, the Soviet 1991 August coup succeeds, i.e. they arrest Yeltsin as originally planned, and the cold war heats up and then continues for another decade or so.

For example:
F-22, Typhoon, Rafale etc. proceed to their original schedules, enter service in the mid to late 90s and are mass produced
A-12 and other advanced platforms are not cancelled (no F/A-18E/F/G)
MV-22 is pushed into service earlier
AAAV (EFV) is deployed.
140mm NATO tank guns
Mass production of Seawolf SSNs

Basically no peace dividend, no massive cut back in defence spending or delay / cancelation of projects until a decade or more later.  Lots of the fanciful and real stuff on both sides is built and replacement projects started.

Cool Idea, just need a catchy title  :)
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #221 on: February 16, 2014, 02:00:01 PM »
I could at least contribute a B-51 to a nuclear weapons/power GB.

Cheers,

Logan

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Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #222 on: February 16, 2014, 03:07:01 PM »
Sorry, I only work in pixels.

Cheers,

Logan

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #223 on: February 21, 2014, 04:27:35 PM »
Is there a 2014 GB calendar ?

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #224 on: February 22, 2014, 03:28:21 AM »
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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