Well due to popular demand the Hollywood GB will be going ahead, auditions are now on.
Rules
Start Date : 27th Feb 2011 (Oscar night, thanks for the idea kenjitak)
End Date : Oscar night 2012 (date yet to be confirmed)
This group build is open to any model of something that has been in Movie, Television or Animation, the catch is the build must be marked/painted/decaled as it occured in the movie or show.
eg Top Gun An F-5 could be done as long as it used the black with markings for the MiG-28.
Battle of Britain using Ha-1112 instead of real 109’s
Battle of the Buldge M-47’s as Tigers and M-24s as Shermans
Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon Kits, Airwolf for Television
Gundam, Figures Kits for anime
Its a big world with so many choices…
Crossovers Allowed.
All ready started kits are fine at no more than 50% complete
Oh what the [cnsod] put me down with the Whitestar then. I’m not even sure where all the parts are but I should be able to find them in three months. The kit is from Warp models in the UK, no clue what scale but she’s a little less than a foot/30cm long.
Sorry, no idea what movie but explosions are pretty much cool by definition [H]
John: cool stuff! I’d forgotten about the Screamin’ Mimi- how could I forget a giant pink chopper???
Andrew: heh, no worries. I do want to do the Whitestar, just afraid to lock myself down when I’m not sure where all the pieces are. Go ahead and put me down for her, as you said I can change it later if I can’t find them.
Put me down as participating, but subject TBA. I have to sort out which idea to go with.
Mi-24 from “Red Dawn”? ( which could be interesting, given it was some kind of European helicopter with added parts )
A MiG-21 converted into a fighter from “Wing Commander”? ( painful movie, I know, but it would be good practice at kitbashing and scratchbuilding parts )
Someone mentioned Airwolf…
Maybe one of the ships from the “kitbash party” they had to get odd ships together for the background battle scenes in DS9…
Cliff , I have to admit the Screamin’ Mimi is kinda unique and apart from some British Desert Storm aircraft/helicopters finished in Desert Pink , I can’t think of any other type of bird in an over all pink color scheme . I may do her after all and hopfully either the C-123 or C-119 , I like the larger transport aircraft .
You have several options with the C-123. Such great movie classics like Air America, or Operation Dumbo Drop, starring Danny Glover, Ray Liota, Dennis Leary and Doug E. Doug. Though the plane from Con Air would be a fitting tribute, considering the plane used in the movie crashed recently, killing all crew aboard.
So many choices, it’s hard to pick just one. I have Dragon’s old (1997) AH-6J Little Bird from the 160th SOAR from “Black Hawk Down” but that seems too easy to pick. Maybe a Patton tank painted “Dunkelgelb” with German markings from the 60s TV series “The Rat Patrol”.
As it happens Jon , I’m actually in the middle of building a collection of Air America Aircraft and Helicopters ;
All of the builds are started and some are close to masking for airbrushing , all of my wip pic’s are over in the FSM Helicopter section . Thank’s for the link on the Con Air C-123 , It’s quite sad she crashed killing all on board .
I was thinking of picking up the Air America DVD and I haven’t seen the movie Operation Dumbo Drop , so I look around for that DVD as well .
I have six Mach 2 C-123 Providers in the stash , two are about 90% complete with just the painting to do , one is for Air America the other is a HC-123B for the USCG .
As you say , I t would be a fitting tribute to build the Con Air C-123 , now that she’s no longer with us .
