Here is your chance to participate in a group build and to test and expand your modeling skills at the same time. Posting this well ahead of time so you can find a kit, gather your reference material, and clear some space on the workbench. This will be a challenging GB for those of us who have never built a vacuform kit. I hope some experienced vacuform builders will join in and help us rookies along. So who’s in? Added an “end” date.
Subject: Any vacuform aircraft kit. Any scale. Any era. Aftermarket is OK.
Start: February 1, 2005
Ends: September 30, 2005
Finish: Open for now, subject to change as feedback comes in
Let’s reconfirm here that I’m very much in with my 1/48 Scimitar from Dynavector. Could you ask Lawrence or any other admin to post a link in the GB sticky in the Aircraft forum too? It’s easier to browse that way, and everybody will still end up here so there’s no double threads or anything. I tend to go there almost daily anyway to see what my Prototypes GB brethren are up to [;)].
Can’t tell you what I’m going to make, next week I’m going to Antwerp to look for a vac-form kit. The shop in Antwerp is the only shop that I know of where I can get a limited selection of vac-form kits.
At least, I hope they still have some…
Okay, folks, you’ve been added (well, this thread has been added) to the Group Builds sticky at the top of the aircraft forum. Good luck - and don’t forget to post photos of the finished masterpieces!
if we can get avusk to get off theyre collectives i can join with the b-18 but i am not holding my breath for the arrival of the kit. only been waiting since feb for it.
Don’t panic Dany. Although I do consider Belgium to be one of modeling’s mekka’s, maybe it’s a little behind on the vacform front. I got my kit from Hannants in London (went there on a pilgrimage[:P]), who seemed to have quite a selection of kits. As you probably know, they also sell over the internet. An option a little closer to home (for me at least [;)]) is the Luchtvaart Hobbyshop in Aalsmeerderbrug, near Schiphol. That shop is as big as Hannants (maybe even bigger) and stocks a LOT of kits. When I was there last I did see some huge vacform kits, but I wasn’t really looking for any so check their website for info on their selection. Check the prices though. My Scimitar retails at 55 euro’s from Hannants and 80 from the LHS now!
I’ll add the links to the websites: http://www.hannants.co.uk/ http://www.lhshop.nl/lhshop.asp
I just found Aeroclub’s website, and they don’t just sell their own products. Check it out: http://www.aeroclub-models.com/index.html
Already saved that one to the harddisk as soon as I saw it. I’ll have to actually read it a few times before I start on the Scimitar though! Good stuff.
Dan, I’m actually from Belgium (Liège) but lives in the UK, in Kent, right between Dover and London. That Embraer kit, I ordered it from Hannants. Are the Welsh Models kits readily available where you are? Would have thought you could simply order it online as I did, or do as Filibert did, make the pilgrimage to the Colindale (North of London) shop…!
I could help you with an excuse you could use for visiting Hannants: tell the wife there’s a cool museum there (Hendon Bomber Command museum). Tell her you want to have a quick look around. Travel to the museum by subway (Colindale station, I believe the orange line on the map), and upon exiting the station act very surprised to find a model shop there! Worked for me[;)].
Oh yes, that rings a bell! Serves me right for giving travel info without checking a map! I’m amazed I got it right when I was in London[:o)]. By the way, no matter what Londoners say: that tube system rocks! I know they don’t always run, but when they do (and that’s most of the time) they get you anywhere… including to a nice hobby shop[;)].