No more Suggestions for the 2015 calender please

[Ian M]

No, nothing alive or dead. Just any 'thing', an object if you like that isn't one of the 'things' mentioned .....Loads of 'things' spring to mind, it just needs a bit of thinking about and would be something away from the norm, and also interesting to see what people come up with.

Ahhhh See that was a parallel I had not even seen in my coffee induced coma.

Ian M

[Ian M]

Large Scale Model.Seems everybody like the idea of build a large scale plane (1/24 or bigger), but we have the option to think with all the members that don’t like specially the wings, so I propose to choice between a plane or a tank (1/25 or bigger)! Or you can build both.... LOL

I had no plans for a super sig in 2015 but as a normal SIG, mayb with a longer time frame a large scale build could be thrown in the hat.

Ian M

[Ian M]

Just my two cents worth. In the spirit of openness.

Tank transporters.

Army surplus. After the war there was loads of trucks, vans and lorries that got sold on to civil service....

[Ian M]

Well we are up to 26 ideas already. Keep 'em coming though.

Ian M

[PaulTRose]

You're on a roll! lol some good idea though.Do you mean A Battle ship as in big floating thing with loads of guns, or do you refer to the film Battleship?

not seen the movie, im thinking Bismarks and Yamatos and KG V and Indianapolis etc

[Guest]

Tank transporters, I like the idea of that one

Army surplus, also like that one ,so many possibilities with that idea

[Lee W]

Any vehicle from the Fast and Furious series 1 - 6, there's a lot of awesome wheels to choose from

Lee

[Ian M]

Any vehicle from the Fast and Furious series 1 - 6, there's a lot of awesome wheels to choose fromLee

Hmm but are they all kitted...

This could be OK for the forum petrol-heads Could it be stretched to "street racers" in general?

[Lee W]

Hmm but are they all kitted...This could be OK for the forum petrol-heads Could it be stretched to "street racers" in general?

I know there is a few kits from the F & F series...not sure which ones though

Lee

[Guest]

A few ideas/thoughts.

Mad max styled vehicle. Military or civilian, tracked, wheeled. (I think this may have been done before)

1970's. Build any OLD 1970's Airfix or Matchbox OOB.

Going Loco. Build a loco with or without rolling stock.

Under a Tenner. Buy a kit for no more than a tenner. build it, add as much detail as you wish but any extras either come from the spares box, or are scratch built.

Space the final frontier. Anything space Star Trek, Space 1999, Blake seven, Luna landings.

Blue's and Two's. Any emergency vehicle/aircraft.

Make it rusty. Whatever you like just make it look rusty.

Public Transport. Anything that moves the public.

[tanktrack]

what about a figure for a challenge ?

[Ian M]

Mad max styled vehicle. Military or civilian, tracked, wheeled. (I think this may have been done before)

Yes I believe it has...

1970's. Build any OLD 1970's Airfix or Matchbox OOB.

Good idea but some of those classics cost more than a new kit...

Going Loco. Build a loco with or without rolling stock.

Noted this could be something a bit different. The only problem could be finding kits... A loco fan can put me right on that.

Under a Tenner. Buy a kit for no more than a tenner. build it, add as much detail as you wish but any extras either come from the spares box, or are scratch built.

That was a good idea. £10 (or equivv) total cost not including paint and glue...

Space the final frontier. Anything space Star Trek, Space 1999, Blake seven, Luna landings.

Have a very similar suggestion already. also for the blues and twos. (Polux). And the rusty one was covered by Spanners suggestions.

Public transport has been up before and got zero votes.

Ian M

[spanner570]

The desert.....anything goes!

Lost and found.....any WWI or II military thingy lost, but found again recently. To include an imaginary story line.

A figure on horseback.

A collision.....you name it!

[Ian M]

We are up to 32 on the first list. Is this a new record!

I will give it to the end of the month and start playing...

So get 'em in while you can.

Ian M

[rickoshea52]

With locomotive kits they are usually steam or resin and quite expensive with the exception of Dapol for example. An alternative might be to take a second hand ready to run loco to detail and repaint. The level of detail to go into is a bit bewildering as many classes of loco had sub-classes, depot specific paint jobs or traffic flow specific fittings.

But you don't have to do a loco, there are diesel or electric multiple units kits out there and of course coaches and wagons. Some suppliers make conversion kits to modify a standard passenger coach to a billion van or overhead line equipment coach.

Just some UK kit suppliers;

Cambrian

Parkside Dundas

DC Kits

Comet models

Hurst models

Bratchells

Dapol

Southern Pride

Silver Fox models