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). And I suspect many of us out there would likewise have something that could benefit from some new love and TLC.
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Alex,
There's actually a What-If campaign recruiting right now that might be a better fit for what it sounds like you've got in mind, but in the name of inclusiveness, I don't have a problem with what-if's in this campaign, as long as you consider your project an improvement on what you had before. But it's really more oriented towards keeping with your original product and updating it.
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There's actually a What-If campaign recruiting right now that might be a better fit for what it sounds like you've got in mind, but in the name of inclusiveness, I don't have a problem with what-if's in this campaign, as long as you consider your project an improvement on what you had before. But it's really more oriented towards keeping with your original product and updating it.
Yes I am familiar with the What-if campaigns. I did four submissions for the last one and will probably do 2-3 for the upcoming one. I build a lot of what-if subjects, and don't always connect them to a campaign.
What I am thinking of is redoing an old Trumpeter KV-1. The paint job is a bit too glossy for me. I could just repaint it or I could try to do something different with it.
Or maybe stretch a T34 or T54/55 chassis and use it as the basis for a mobile launcher for a Guideline missile.
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I think that would work, Alex. I believe I've seen photos around somewhere of an SA-2 mounted on a GM-568 chassis, so putting it on some other kind of tracked chassis doesn't seem to me like all that big a stretch. If you consider it an improvement on what you had done previously, bring it (assuming this campaign ever actually gains any traction--no pun intended)
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I think that would work, Alex. I believe I've seen photos around somewhere of an SA-2 mounted on a GM-568 chassis, so putting it on some other kind of tracked chassis doesn't seem to me like all that big a stretch. If you consider it an improvement on what you had done previously, bring it (assuming this campaign ever actually gains any traction--no pun intended)
The KV would be a basic repaint job....I might do it as well. The tracked guideline launcher would use the SA2 I did for the Flak Campaign and a couple of old Tamiya T-34s. I wasn't happy with the SA2 and the Tamiya kits are pretty old compared to what's out there now.
Looks like we're up to 8! Starting to get there. Any thoughts on time frame? I wouldn't mind putting off the start until sometime around Summer, but given the nature of it poeple might want to kick off sooner than that. How do you all feel?
Oh, and for anyone interested. My plan is to take my re-release Revell Atlas-Mercury with Friendship 7 capsule and launch site (to include scratch-built service tower) and add oil washes and filters, with which I was not acquianted when I built this. I had tried using some artist pastels to add some streaking at the time, but it just looks comical.
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Associate Editor Looks like we've got about 8 interested. Think that's enough to get this thing off the ground?
The first pic represents the turret for the Spanish M47E2 with a M68 105mm gun from DEF Models. The turret handles remain original to the M-47 for the re-do.
The 2nd pic is the turret being re-done for a Somolia M-47 during the American incursion in 1993. The turret is based on Italian modified M-47's later sold and re-appeared from a 3rd party in Somolia. The most notable feature of this re-do is the addition of the "rain" gutters on the turret. The grab handles have changed as well. The vehicle keeps its' orginal 90mm gun.
The 3rd pic is a revised, home improved, M-47 of the Jordanian army during the 1967 Six Day War campaign. Note the difference in the grab handles here from the other turrets. This vehicle also keeps its' original 90mm gun.
The 4th pic is showing the whole M-47 revision from Somolia in its original color scheme I painted it from over 20 years ago. I think I was attempting to represent an M-47 from Croatia.
Associate EditorQuoted TextLooks like we've got about 8 interested. Think that's enough to get this thing off the ground?
I'm willing to get going on this...besides, it will 'force' me to keep working the 'improvements'!
I'm in only if the END DATE is the summer of '15.
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