The recent reposting has started me thinking of a few things…
I need opinions on this idea:
A one hour window that we would stop and get online as a group to post progress. Of course the logistics are a nightmare for this, but what do you think of this…considering Observed Daylight Savings,
10:00 AM SUNDAY NY
would be…
4:00 PM COPENHAGEN, CAPETOWN
3:00 PM LONDON
8:00 AM DENVER
7:00 AM LOS ANGELES
10:00 PM MANILA
11:00 PM TOKYO
10:00 PM PERTH
12:00 AM SYDNEY
The Pacific guys would be done, the Europeans closing in, the States/Canadians would be real early, and poor Hawaii (well sorry, but look outside, it’s real nice).
Is there any interest in this? I mean besides posting all day as things unfold.
BTW I only picked 10:00 AM NY because that would be midnight for Australia, and earlier would kill LA. We can change based on interest.
hmm yeah, ok. Sounds like a good idea.
I think we should post on our progress during the day. I don’t know if we should all do it at one time.
Maybe you (ausf) should just start a thread on that day that we can all post in, when we have the time.
… me! Ok, I’ll give it a whirl – 10am I’ll log on and post “I still can’t get the cellophane off of the box!”
I’m rethinking whether I’m going to be naughty and use the turret sides from the later kit, or just do the Tunisia Tiger. Hmmm. (Part of that is selfish – the Kursk Tigers have a more complicated camo scheme! [(-D])
Im just trying to get my head around the time difference. Does this mean that here in Aus, we will be finishing almost as you guys in the US are starting?
You got it. I expect you guys to be deep into a few pints before I have my coffee.
Maybe we should just leave it that you post your starting pic, ie. box on top of the local August 8 newspaper, then off you go, post comments at will.
I like the starting pick idea because it would work as an informal ‘registration’.
The other issue is if we want the original post of the finished pics to be anonymous (I’ll post a webpage) so people can pick a reader’s choice. Then after votes are in, we can all post in progress stuff at will.
I like the anonymous pics idea and the deep in a few pints idea.
I guess I will have to deal with the 12:00am bit, though. Might start a little late on the Monday…
BTW I am going to go with the Hasegawa, methinks. I can’t bring myself to build a kit as nice as the Revell at top speed, and I think the Airfix will make me want to exacto myself in the eye.
Exacto myself in the eye! That is one of the funniest things I have heard. I have done a Airfix !/72 scale tiger model as my second model ever and it was like you say ready to hurt some one lol.
I dropped mine (1/72 Airfix) on the floor in horror after I cracked open the box, kicked it down the stairs because I was afraid it would climb out of the bowl if I tried to flush it, kicked it out the door onto the porch and then the driveway, backed over it and forward again to kill it, picked it up with tongs and put it in my neighbor’s garbage, threw the tongs out, went back inside and took a shower to get the stink off…twice.
That’s just my opinion though.
I’d suggest nay to the reader’s choice for best kit, as modeling is about having fun and creating something, not who is the most skilled modeler. Also people go a little ape-poopie when you start deciding who’s best, and it may transform the whole feel of the mad day.
The fun part of this, IMHO, is everyone going crazy on a kit together over 24 hour period!
Larry,
I agree I don’t want this as a competition, just fun. I was thinking along the lines of the reader’s choice being something like the "Austin Power’s Tiger Tank’ or a single roadwheel lying in charred dirt as a dio entitled ‘Bad day for the 501st’.
If it would be perceived as competitive then I’m certainly opposed…
I guess it depends what type of voting catagories their were. If it was just “Best overall”, 'Best Paint" or more competition orientated classes it might end up that way. but if there were to be fun catagories then it would suggest a more fun feeling to the thing.