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Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Sun 07 Sep 2008 23:59 pm Post subject: Airfix Building Diorama GB Chat

Please use this thread for general discussions relating to this GB.

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Thu 09 Oct 2008 17:13 pm Post subject:

Just under a week to go.....Are we all ready yet? Think

All the best
Sgt.S

Ratch · Posted: Thu 09 Oct 2008 17:40 pm Post subject:

I bought some more diorama materials today, although I've not reached a final plan yet Airhead

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daniel7891 · Posted: Thu 09 Oct 2008 18:00 pm Post subject:

I may me a few days late in starting, i have to palce an order or two tomorrow
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Daniel

thomasweir · Posted: Thu 09 Oct 2008 23:12 pm Post subject:

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008 00:13 am Post subject:

Me too.....Something may well get plucked!

All the best
Sgt.S

stuzzar · Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:30 am Post subject:

I have been making up a shopping list and doing a few rough sketch ideas although I probably will not get started until early November as I want to get a few of the outstanding builds out of the way first.

Cheers

Stu

daniel7891 · Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008 18:27 pm Post subject:

My order was despatched today. I got the FCP and some scatters. I will be building the 25pdr in conjuction
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Daniel

Digs · Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008 21:14 pm Post subject:

I'm dithering - I made the fatal error of looking online at the Waterloo box set after partaking of DRINK and am now the slightly dismayed owner of a flat-packed La Haye Sainte farmhouse and more toy soldiers than I can possibly face painting.

And nice though the nostalgia trip might be, the freaking thing is HUGE, at least once it's installed on the TWO vacform bases the kit comes with so god knows where I would put it once finished. Perhaps it'll have to be the FCP after all!

Whatever, I think I'll finish the medium bomber build before starting this so I'm likely to be a late starter.

Paul

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Wed 15 Oct 2008 14:08 pm Post subject:

Right then.....I guess we are now officially underway!

All the best
Sgt.S

daniel7891 · Posted: Wed 15 Oct 2008 14:48 pm Post subject:

I have got my stuff now, i just opened the FCP box and it doesn't seem to have any coulors so i am a little worried about what colours i am going to use, does anyone have an ideas?
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Daniel

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Wed 15 Oct 2008 14:55 pm Post subject:

Where are you setting your diorama?

You can often give a bit of national character to a diorama by using appropriate colours and exterior decor.

TIA & All the best
Sgt.S

daniel7891 · Posted: Wed 15 Oct 2008 15:59 pm Post subject:

Following on from your suggestion, I am using the FCP as a Battery post recieving fire co-ordinates that will be given to the 25pdr kit. so it probably depends on what schemes you can do using that (I havent looked in the box) but I think I would like to do it somewhere in france after D Day?

So what do you think?
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Daniel

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Wed 15 Oct 2008 16:25 pm Post subject:

OK.....Just after June 6 1944, puts your gun firmly in Normandy, so a Google Image Search for Normandy farmhouses might be productive.

Don't worry about finding an exact match.....It very likely won't happen. Look for a period photo of something similar for the context and a modern picture of a traditionally painted building for the colours.

In this time frame, your gun is very likely to be British or Candadian but almost ceratinly not American.....You should be able to get suitable markings from one of the members if you don't have them already.

Your battery command post will need some radio sets and an operator or two, who would be receiving 'fire missions' from observers in the front line. Plotters who work out how to lay the guns and so on. Some figures holding maps and others doing lots of pointing and shouting would be about right.

HTH & All the best
Sgt.S
PS - I reckon we should probaly continue this discussion in your thread, so we don't fill this section up too much!

Ratch · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008 23:42 pm Post subject:

Apparently a lot of people have been missing out on the builds here as I set the Permissions incorrectly

I hope its alright now

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Lincolnlanc · Posted: Wed 19 Nov 2008 16:27 pm Post subject:

Am i to late to be included ??
Just had an idea of a topic to do. Are we limited in any direction other than Airfix kits??
Ian

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Wed 19 Nov 2008 17:11 pm Post subject:

Hi Ian,

You are never to late to join an ATF GB!

Simply click the 'Usergroups' tab at the top of the page, select the 'Airfix Building Diorama GB' from the drop-down menu and apply to join.....I'll set you up a thread within the GB Forum as soon as I receive notification of your request.

If you have already decided what you intend to build, let me know in this thread and I'll customoise your thread title to suit.

Look forward to hearing from you soon, all the best
Sgt.S
PS - Rule limitations for this GB are that it must include one of the Airfix building kits, such as the 'Control Tower'.....However heavily customised it might end up!

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Lincolnlanc · Posted: Thu 20 Nov 2008 09:29 am Post subject:

Sgt
I intend to join two Control tower together to form a larger structure with extn.'s and probably a couple of aircraft.
Many thanks for the info.
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