What the Flak? Official Campaign
Namabiiru
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#399
Rhode Island, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 - 03:45 PM UTC
Anyone interested in a campaign dedicated to protecting the guys on the ground? These are the guidelines I generally have in mind:
1) Any ground-based defensive counter-air asset; AAA, SAM, guy throwing rocks in the air, etc. (kind of want to stay away from things like Aegis ships and air superiority fighters, although a gun stuck on a barge would be cool)
2) Any era, any nation (or non-state actor), any scale
3) No what-ifs; if not something 'common' ought to have a photo or something to show it actually existed (see gun on a barge above)
4) OOB, scratch or anywhere in between, but can't be started prior to start of the campaign
Wadya think?
Kildare, Ireland
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Posted: Thursday, April 03, 2014 - 12:28 AM UTC
Sounds good....I'm up for it.
Namabiiru
Associate Editor #399
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Posted: Thursday, April 03, 2014 - 10:11 AM UTC
Awesome! And the campaign slowly lurches into motion...
Welcome aboard! Hopefully we'll get enough to get this thing off the ground.
Namabiiru
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 10:12 AM UTC
Since Jim was kind enough to move this thread to the proper location for me, it's worth a bump!
North Carolina, United States
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 10:20 AM UTC
Hi,
I'd be up for that, have a Trumpeter and Dragon vehicle with Flak.
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Namabiiru
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 10:22 AM UTC
Sweet!
New York, United States
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:08 AM UTC
what would be the time frame for the kick off I have a Tamiya Mobelwagen in the stash
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Namabiiru
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:13 AM UTC
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what would be the time frame for the kick off I have a Tamiya Mobelwagen in the stash
My understanding is the campaign administrators determine the timing based on what other campaigns are in the pipeline. I would not want it to start too soon, as I'm currently enlisted in three other active campaigns, but I don't want to wait too long! I also have a vintage TAM Mobelwagen which has me in a quandary: whether to build the prototype 20mm version OOB, or swap out with the 37mm production version.
Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:16 AM UTC
wasn´t there a AA-something last year?... anyway I´m in...
hopefully we can get this started, as all the other (must have been at least 3)campaigns I wanted to enter with my 3,7mm on the Mercedes Maultier didn´t get submitted...
Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.
Namabiiru
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:23 AM UTC
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wasn´t there a AA-something last year?... anyway I´m in...
hopefully we can get this started, as all the other (must have been at least 3)campaigns I wanted to enter with my 3,7mm on the Mercedes Maultier didn´t get submitted...
Awesome! Our anti-air is finally starting to grow some wings!
Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:35 AM UTC
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Awesome! Our anti-air is finally starting to grow some wings!
thought it was about shooting down some wings
Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.
Western Australia, Australia
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:38 AM UTC
I would be in. Thinking something like this
In the Hangar:
- 1/48 Hasegawa P-38J/L
In the Workshop
-1/35 Tamiya Mobelwagen
Namabiiru
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 01:19 PM UTC
I'm digging that; especially if you can nail that camo.
Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 09:29 PM UTC
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I would be in. Thinking something like this
Interresting choice... with just a brief look I´d have said it´s a captured Gaz AAA with a German 37mm on it...
but those chaps are Russians... so re-re captured or all russian "engineering"?
Got a bit of time and searched for my ref pic:
as I went for the 20mm on a Krupp Protze in a previous campaign I´m going bigger... as the bigger the better
The Maultier is comming from Zevezda and the 37mm is the Trumpeter one with the PE-shields
Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.
Namabiiru
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Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 09:47 PM UTC
Nice!
Western Australia, Australia
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Posted: Friday, April 11, 2014 - 02:45 AM UTC
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I would be in. Thinking something like this
Interresting choice... with just a brief look I´d have said it´s a captured Gaz AAA with a German 37mm on it...
but those chaps are Russians... so re-re captured or all russian "engineering"?
From what I have found is it is a 25mm mounted on a Gaz AAA.
I have a Gaz AAA in the stash just need to find a 25mm
In the Hangar:
- 1/48 Hasegawa P-38J/L
In the Workshop
-1/35 Tamiya Mobelwagen
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Posted: Friday, April 11, 2014 - 05:28 AM UTC
Since I have the AA variants of the Wiesel around, count me in
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Posted: Friday, April 11, 2014 - 12:04 PM UTC
Im in
England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
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Posted: Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:15 PM UTC
Oh no, here we go again
Paul
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Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Sunday, April 13, 2014 - 06:55 AM UTC
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Im in
ahh, you found the way here
Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.
Wojewodztwo Slaskie, Poland
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Posted: Monday, April 14, 2014 - 08:33 AM UTC
I'm on it, I have in stock 2cm Flak 38 on Pz.Kpfw.38 t Tristar. When are you going to start this campaign, because I have a tight schedule for the workbench.
Paweł
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Posted: Monday, April 14, 2014 - 09:11 AM UTC
Sounds like a deal, to me!
Flak-stuff abounds in my stash... Wirbelwinds, Ostwinds, FlaKPz 1, FlaKPz 38(t), FlaK on half-tracks and Maultiers, etc.
I'll promise to not do another 2cm FlaK 38 standing by itself. Variation and diversity are the spice of (modeling) life!
Bob
Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 06:45 AM UTC
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I'm on it, I have in stock 2cm Flak 38 on Pz.Kpfw.38 t Tristar. When are you going to start this campaign, because I have a tight schedule for the workbench.
Paweł
Nice choice Paweł, I´ve build it the last time. Some parts will break you fingers, but in MHO it´s better than the Dragon 20mm (not only pirce-wise)...
although the DML carriage is superior in detail, as the weldlies wich go round the entire carriage are a barely visible on the Tristar kit...you´ll get more detail in the upper part
Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.
Kildare, Ireland
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Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 07:38 PM UTC
Well most people seem to be going for the WWII real "flak" but this is what I'm thinking of:
The Tunguska, to go with my Shilka & SAM-6
