The round the world GB is go. Should be fun to see if we can get this model around the world and actually finished. The subject is a Hobbycraft 1/48 Me-109. Unfortunately, there’s not much room for other people to join the build, so this is the line up:
Tweety1
j.s.harrison
tho990
razordws
pingtang
darson
KJ200
I don’t think I forgot anyone, did I?
We’ll assign jobs later on. So, get rambling fellas, I know that’s what you do best.
hmmmm… a new GB… something I swore I wouldn’t get into… although this is interesting, 7 people shipping a kit around the world until it is finished… maybe we will see some more of these…
Tell ya what Daniel - better than a picture of an East Texas Timber Jackalope I will ship you the real thing when it comes my turn on the build list… maybe you can solve part of that cane toad prob that way… Jackalopes are voracious eaters! (an the only carnivore of the rabbit family)
For those who don’t know… this GB is one kit sent over 3 continents with one part of the construction occuring at each step… this should be really interesting. Something more interesting is the person who forwards the kit also sends a bit of memorabilia back to the person who sent HIM the kit of where he lives or his culture… (hence my comment to PingTang about sending him a Jackalope)
So far it is going from Australia, then to Texas (USA), Canada, then (hopefully) to the UK…
That Jackalope isn’t related to the ancient man-eating rabbit seen in Monty python and the holy grail is it? If it is, I don’t want anything to do with it. I like my jugular just as it is, un-chewed.[:p]
BTW, I sent Karl a message this morning, so we’ll see if he’s interested.
What’s going on here, eh?
Daniel Despite what my out of office says, I’m still out of office, playing nurse to my sick wife, who has had mumps for the last week!!!
However I dropped into the Midawy GB last night to see what the rest of the Happy Acres residents were up to, and spotted my name, and there was no cussing after it either!!!
Put me down for this GB.
Karl
Good to see you here mate. Do you have any preferences as to what part of the build you’d like to do? We’re still trying to work out who does what.
How does everyone feel about this part?
Obviously there is a more than possible chance some damage will occur to our little project somewhere along the way.
So each persons ‘step’ of production may become a repair aswell, with pics of course[:)]
BTW- I’d be keen on painting the camo scheme, if everyones cool with that[:D]
Yeah Sean i’m happy with that[tup] and getting back to your other post i don’t think that we should touch each others work unless it’s a unavoidable repair…BTW whadda ya reckon about doing “Bartells” 109G6 you have the decals with the Has kit, Red 13…
Karl happy to see that youv’e joined us here, with your participation we’ll have the build going all the way around the world[tup]
OK so i have the kit here but what stage am i doing[?] how about i just send it to Pingy for the c/pit construction, and when it’s ready i can prime and preshade then send it to Tom for canopy masking, BTW Tom how about you do the undercarriage as well as the canopy mask…
Yeah, thats what I mean[:)]
Can’t do much on a kit with a broken wing etc…
Bartells is cool.
See what everyone else reckons.
Cool Sean i’ll post up a pic of Bartells A/C so everyone can have a squizz at it[tup]
I’m pretty much rubbish at everything, so I’m, not too phased what I end up doing!!
More than happy to leave the canopy masking to Tom though!
Glad to be part of the Happy Acres round the world cruise.
Meet you all on deck for shuffle board at 16.00, just don’t tell Kremps.
Karl
OK then, this is what I’ve got so far:
Me - cockpit;
Darren - assembly and maybe filling/sanding;
Jules - filling/sanding, prime and pre-shade;
Tweets - camo painting;
Tom - canopy and under carriage;
Dave - decals;
Karl - wash and final painting;
Then maybe back to Jules to do the final assembly (?). Don’t know about that order, I’m just trying to do as little international postage as possible. How does that sit with everyone? Any suggestions?
Jules Haven’t seen that plane, but I’m sure Tweets can handle it with his camo skills.
Tweets That’s half the fun of this group build mate. If we can get this thing to the end in one piece, it will be a miracle.
sounds Ok to me pingy
Don’t worry Karl we won’t tell her[tup] The last thing we need is an uncontrolable list to starboard[:o]
I think she’ll be to busy working anyway, apparently she was hired as ballast and has to stay midships at all time[;)]
You have to admit, this will be the BEST planned kit any of us has been involved in!!
By the time someones turn comes round, the time already spent ‘thinking’ about it is already done!!!
I had too tell the missus about our crazy idea.
She thinks we’re bent.
And she still can’t get her head around the ‘Kremps’ issue.
I told her it’s a therapy thing…she walked away[:O]
My missus’ thinks I’m totally bent just talking about models on the internet, she’s supportive of my hobby, just doesn’t understand the need to share it with others. I wouldn’t even dream of telling her about Kremps or any of the other dicussions that go on here or she’d likely unplug the modem cable. [:O]
The order of battle sounds good to me.
Whoa hey, nobody asked ME! This sounds like a supremo cool idea! If Dave is interested, I have some bf109 decals from superscale, I could send you some of the extras, I don’t think there are any markings for Bartells though. they would probably be better than the kit decals anyway. So Dave, you game? (that way at least I can contribute a little bit!) I assume this is a 1:48 kit? [:)]
Jay First of all, you got to hang out in more than one GB if you want to catch on to a great idea like this [;)]. It was cooked up by the gang in the Midway GB.
If you can scan the images of the aircraft camo schemes (or a link to a review or something) so that the group can see what they are then maybe they would take a vote on which one to use, your Superscale or the Bartell, or any other suggestions. The model is 1:48 and I believe the model is a G-6, am I right guys?
Hey, I only have a few kits and I can’t be all the GB’s I see! Okay I’ll scan them tonight and send you the images tomorrow. Let me know if you guys want to use them, I don’t see myself making any bf109g6’s any time soon. I think the set I have is for Barkhorn, Marseille, and Hartmann. The Marseille decals for JG26 are used up though.