Pacific 60th GB idea

Modeling Subjects Armor
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G’day Folk’s,

I have this idea to put a Group Build together for the 60th annivesary of the Pacific war, which I have a tentative starting and finishing from Nov to April '05.
I’ve had a few member’s so an expression of interest in this project, as I originally posted this in the General Discusion forum.

Rob.

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Ya, As I said in your last post, I might join in with an Amtank.

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This should be a winner. Generous time frame also. Maybe then would be the time to build that wingy-thingy sitting on my shelf.

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Hmmmmmm I have a F6F wingy thingy calling me, with this time frame of a november begining I should be able to do this. Count me in.

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sounds like it could be a good idea cause the time frame is so long and im committed to the Commonwealth and Stug builds

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Great idea, Rob. Finally a GB regarding something that happened in my side of the globe. LOL. Let me see if I can get something for it.

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I preordered the Midway Dauntless, might work well timing-wise.

It would actually be approaching the 63rd for that.

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Yes sounds good to me (my first oneGB that is) Now I have to think about what sort of german afv they used in the Pacific [(-D][(-D][(-D]

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there are some fantastic oportunities in this idea. i have been chatting quite a bit with rob over some of them. i hope to see more members look at it.

joe

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Sounds interesting. The time frame is definitely a good thing, as it would give members plenty of time to join in. Not certain about myself yet, but we’ll see as it comes closer.

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[:D] Hi Rob. that build sounds great,count me in.do you want update pics or just the finished pics? let us all know .[:D]cheers mate

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For armor these are SOME of the choices:

Allies
M2A1
Light Tank M3
M4A1 (75)
AC1 Sentinel
M26 Pershing

Japanese
Type 1 “Ho-Ni I” Tank Destroyer
Type 97 Tankette
Type 95 Light Tank
Type 89 Medium Tank
Type 97 Chi Ha Medium Tank

I’ll check for some more options…

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You forgot The anphibious stuff!

LVT-4 Amtrac- thats what I want to build.
LVT(A)-1 Alligator
LVT-(A) 4

and LVCP’s

The Japanese also had a variety of WWI stuff, including a Whippet and FT-17.

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Got a few of those lying around. Count me in.

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DEFINATELY count me in on this one!

As a side note I’m planning to start a 60th builge build around november too but I can manage to build something for both.

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time to revisit this again.

joe

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good idea to bring it back.

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yes! that was my 1000 th post!!![:D][8D][:P][:)][party][party][party][party][8-][8-][yeah][^]

1001 baby!

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The Pershing was used in the Pacific? Never knew that. When and where?

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rob posted this in the a/c forum. thought i should post it here.

I’ve drafted up a set of [rough] rules and the area this will cover, so here is what I have, the Pacific Conflict can cover any of the Following Area’s:

AVG, Pearl Harbour, Aleutian Islands, Coral Sea, Midway, Bouganville, Rabaul, New Guinea, Solamon Islands, Indo China, Singapore, Malayia, Philipines, Gilbert Islands, Guadal Canal, Borneo, Australia, Japan, just to name a few places.

The Rules even in draft form:

  1. Open to any forum member
  2. Any model subject can include any AM product or decals
  3. Histirically Accurate
  4. No obligation to finish, for whatever reason within the time frame
  5. Any member can join in after the starting date
  6. Photo of finished model or near completed model [if possible]
  7. Any Countries subject of model
  8. The model subject can be any scale
    a. Any Military Vehicle; Aircraft, Tank, Truck, Ship, Figuriene
    b. Any Civilian Vehicle supressed into military sevice
  9. The starting date 1st Nov 2004
  10. The completion Date is 31sy May 2005
  11. Any progress photo’s can be added at anytime

This conflict covered a large portion of the Globe and covered a lot of Country’s

Rob.