Based on the interest in, and success of, the Mad Tiger Day build, here’s another mad one-day build, for armoured vehicles of the Western Allies.
Here are the ground rules if you’d like to join us.
The Day: November 14, 2004 – midnight to midnight, your time. It’s suggested that you take some kind of verification picture of the sprues with all the kit pieces on them to verify that you started on November 14.
The vehicle: build one 1/72nd or 1/76th scale armoured vehicle (no soft skins, no towed guns, no rail guns – just armoured vehicles) manufactured by the Americans, British, Canadians or Australians for WWII. So this means Shermans, American TDs, Stuarts, Pershings (good luck finding one), US armoured half tracks, any British tank, Univeral carriers, Canadian conversions of the Sherman, and so on and so forth. As long as it was armoured and was built by and fought for the Western Allies, it’s good to go.
The medium: the kit should be an injection-molded kit, but it can include PE if that’s in the box. No all-resin kits. No aftermarket accessories. Just kit components in the box.
Etc: The kit can be on a display stand or in a diorama, but it’s the vehicle itself that counts.
Let’s keep the kit we have chosen a secret until we start building. It’ll be very interesting to see what vehicles and kits people choose.
Have fun, and join me on November 14! I’m going to invest in Olive Drab futures. [(-D]
No, it really didn’t. There seemed to be a lot of interest when I suggested it. Anything to get people to build allied armour is a good thing!
I set a date that I assume will make everyone happy. I think at this point we just have to be firm on it, or the build will be pushed back to the year 2010. [:)]
Sounds fun but I think I’ll wait to see how I do on Mad Fokker Day on October 17, see how the old body and feeble mind hold up before I attempt this one. I’ll let you know October 18…or maybe the nineteenth.
I didn’t say that. I just set limits. Just like there are limits, for instance, to Mad Fokker Day – much tighter limits than in this build, I should add.
Isn’t a Fokker DVII Fokker enough then …??! Isn’t an Eduard Fokker Dr.1 Fokker enough then…??! [:p]
(BTW, the Soviets were not part of Allied Forces.)
Larry, also, I really think one of the great attraction and interest of the Mad Tiger Day was that everyone was building the same vehicle, granted from various manufacturers. I found it interesting to compare progress that way.
Mad Fokker Day is ‘built’ around the original concept proposed by Ausf. Only one subject, one scale, but various possible manufacturers in order to allow more people to join in (Revell’s latest Dr.1 may not be as accessible, say in Mexico as it is here.
Nevertheless, I like the idea of a 24hr Group Build with a particular theme, so count me in your Mad Allied Day.
