Hey guys and gals… Right now, this is just a place-holder of sorts, but there’s a method to my madness…
I wanna get a GB fired up that will begin on 6 JUNE 2013 and end on 6 JUNE 2014… Giving everyone about a year’s heads-up, which is to some, rather mornic, since if any of you got CRS Syndrome like me, you’ll likely forget about the thread for a year…
But, I plan on following though, keeping it on the first three pages or so, perhaps… Details will emerge as we get closer to the start date next June… Like a better GB Title…
There’re a few details I can think of right now, but in a nutshell, if it was used near, on, or flew above Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, or Sword Beaches and the surrounding German-held positions on 6 JUNE 44, or the following days until about D+24, it’s in…
Oh yeah… With a year’s head’s-up, there shouldn’t be a need for cross-overs… Start your kit-hunting early, and set it aside… Paint some black & white stripes on the box or something to remind you…
I can give you a definate maybe Hans. Sorry but I don’t know what I’m doing an hour from now much less a year. Still I’ve got a pile of American/British/Canadian kits that would work.
I don’t think giving this much lead time is that odd, considering the subject. It’s a big # anniversary. After the initial push has happened over the next little while, you could probably just make sure to add a new post on… 6th of every month?? So it stays active without chewing up too much of the front page space.
I’d recommend this staying around as the “announcement” thread, then starting a separate official GB thread when the time comes.
In for sure. Not 100% settled on what I’ll build, but I’m leaning toward the 1/32 MDC Hawker Typhoon I just ordered. One of those planes that just looks right in invasion stripes. Need to check if the markings support it, but perhaps the PCM Spitfire XIV…if I haven’t caved and built both by then.
Course, there’s also Tasca’s M4A1 with the hedgerow cutter…could be a contender as well.
Hans, I’m in too. Doogs’ ideas are so good but I don’t want to be a copy cat. [:)] I’d love to do a Tyffie or a TASCA Sherman. I’ll wait to see what he’s doing and then take the left overs.
Hi, I’m interested in doing a build for this too.A while back I built a C-47 and more recently a P-38 in D-Day colors. I think I would like to build a Horsa glider, perhaps with a jeep.
That’s the plan, Doogs… I’ll have it ready to go with a decent title…
I just wanted this thread to be around as the time grows near, and not let anyone “Steal the Thunder”, lol… I like Vance’s monthly “6th of the Month” count-down idea too…
“Der Längste Tag”…
Gonna start playing with some badges… Y’all think that there should be separate “genre”-badges… Y’know… Badge with a plane if you build one, ship badge for the Navy freaks, armor for the Tread-heads, etc.?
“Dakota” or “Skytrain”? (Makes a difference, ya know… [;)] ) Personally, I like the Dakotas that the USAAF took back from the RAF for paint-schemes… They have RAF camo, but US markings… Add the Invasion Stripes, and they’re an eye-catcher…
Yeah, they were, but just… The 422nd and 425th NFSs had their Widows by then, barely…
422d NFS was assigned to the 9th AF in March of '44, and after training with Mossies suppplied by the RAF, the got their P-61s just prior to Overlord, and remained in England until they went to forward bases in France in July of '44…
The 425th NFS was assigned to its first ETO station at RAF Chormy Down, on 26 May 1944, and was also assigned to the 9th AF in England…
I don’t know if they had OD/NG paint though… That might have been late enough to get them delivered in Black… In the diorama I built, “Striping the Widow”, I used an OD/NG paint-scheme anyway…
