How-to-Group Build Suggestion

How does this sound, a group build where everyone builds the same kit. One that is reeadily available and not very expensive? Everyone gets the same model, each week is designated for a particular section built, progress pics and comments and questions asked about troubles or tips and techniques. This can be for the advacne to help the novice or novice helping novice. This way everyone helps everyone at the same time to complete every thing in a certain time frame. Let’s say first month, a model is selected like a common car, airplane kit, or even a 1/700 series ship model. Then next month is getting parts for assembly and dry fitting and everyone can give input on fitting problems or discuss some updates that may want to be done. The next month (3rd) assembling sub-sections. The 4th month painting the main body. The 5th month painting interior sub assemblies. The 6th month assemblying everything. I think everyone gets the picture. This way us novice guys can actually follow along with how some of you experts buils a model and if us novice people get stuck it will be easier for us to explain where it is we got stuck because we all are using the same model. How does that sound? Any takers on this idea?

-Scott

It’s a noble idea with great intentions, but will be nigh-impossible to pull off.

I don’t know your GB experience, but in most GB’s every modeler is working at different schedules due to life responsibilities, motivation, skill, tools available, etc. etc. There are many who sign up and then disappear completely. So actually getting a group of modelers to build at the exact same pace for months on end will be akin to herding a bunch of cats with ADD. Without actually seeing the cats.

But that’s just my [2c].

Cheers!

If you do try this build, I suggest you use the Revell 1/48 Spirit of St. Louis. It’s a nice kit, very inexpensive and it’s simple nough for a novice but complex enough that the advanced guys won’t be bored.

as the Night Templar said, “chose wisely”

the Spirit of Saint Louis does sound interesting…