Vintage and everybody involved in the build;
I just put off the post in the armor forums. Hopefully we can get some members there interested. As far as the list of people involved goes, I am curious what everyone is intending to build. I myself am currently planning on building up a P-61Black Widow form the old Monogram Kit. This kit can be gotten a hold of at any Michael’s for less than $10 if you use their weekly 40% any one item coupon.
Later
Rethinking my choice of doing a p-61, I am having some trouble finding reference pics on-line. But i guess I could always wing it, artistic license and all that.
Did you see this entry, stram? There’s some nice pictures on those sites, with excellent historical data behind most of the wrecks.
Thanks jboutin… [;)]
Take care, Frank
Here’s a site that you might want to take a look at for this build,
Interesting,maybe a bit beyond my skill level,but are we talking anytime and any place?[:I]
Well as far as anytime anyplace what did you mean specifically? I personally think it would be great to have projects from all eras but we would have to hear from Vintage as well.
Any time period with any type of aircraft.
Model Grandpa-That site was for me when building The Lady Be Good was a life saver. It had all the missing pics of her I had been looking for. Plus all the other wrecks on there too are just amazing to look at.
Thanks for the reference pics, although they do not depict a p-61 for the most part I believe I can use some of the pics to do a reasonable job of depicting damage. I can’t wait to get started. Just need to hurry up and finish the COrsair on the bench now.
My idea is this;
during the Aleutians campaign in Alaska, many aircraft and crew were lost due to the constant fog and bad weather. I was reading that in one 3 day period a Canadian unit lost 7 aircraft due to fog, on one flight 4 aircraft flew into a mountain side!
Image on some lonely mountain side in the coastal rain forests of British Columbia or Alaska sits a P-40 all crumpled up with moss and other growth hanging off it…
I haven’t seen any pics of something like this yet but I think with all the ref pics I could manage to wing it or de-wing it as the case may be![;)][(-D]
Yo Stickman! nice to see a fellow Calgarian! I haven’t seen your posts yet as I am also pretty new to this forum myself. Glad to see others from cowtown in this forum[C):-)], I’ve met only one other,
VA, just a thought, shouldn’t this thread be moved to the GB section?
I was leaning towards WW1 aircraft ,normally not to much left after a crash , but I have seen a few photos where the pilot has walked away from a prang. Thanks Jay ,good to hear from you too.
Well when it gets going we will get it into the GB forums, so not to clutter it up.
Also I have seen the pic your talking about and considered doing it myself at one time.
The Skies the the limit,
V.A.
Well replies in the armor forum have been luck-warm at best so I think those of us who want to be involved should come together and agree on some rules and more importantly a start date. I am itching to get going and I am seriously contemplating starting and archiving photos for the official start.
As far as start date goes I am open to anytime. Now lets hear everyone chime in on this.[8D]
sounds good to me I’ve wanted to do something like this after seeing [Dan Jaynes] cutaway models in the september 04 issue of FSM , although it is more difficult as it would be producing battle damage and not just having the skin removed it would be an excellent challenge which I’m up for count me in wiht something small possibly 1/72?
You’ve mentioned the Lucky Lady and here she is. I took it at the Galveston Flight Museum. Hope this give some one inspriration.[:)]
Hmmm…interesting GB. I could probably submit my old B-17. Came out looking like a battle damaged aircraft accidentally.
wetmonkey
I’m in! This makes 3 GB’s for me since I joined. I’ll be busy this summer. I don’t care about a start date, but I do think an open-ended build would be nice. BTW I’m going to do an underwater wreck of a Shiden for my fish tank.
Thank you tankmaster7 for your incredibly hysterical but grammatically correct post. Also thanks to V.A. for frequent simpsons (thats unpossible) references.
Matthew
W-S, NC
VA, I’m another one from the armor forum. I have a Mig 15 that is begging to be in this. It’s halfway completed and looks terrible already. Problem is that when a jet crashes there is usually NOT MUCH LEFT. I know this is beyond my skill level but i’d like to try anyway. Perhaps I’ll have it sitting in a boneyard with major parts of it missing and panels laying around.
Would something like this work? This F-84G was originally built as a pristine, operational, show bird. I recently decided to “deconstruct it” as you call it, as though it were sitting abandoned in the boonies for a prolonged period of time. I have a couple more models that I am considering running through this process.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
