Have to admit I haven’t caught it yet on the posts, I’ll have a look for it.
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I really want to build some World War I machines. My stockpile includes one model that qualifies for your campaign. However, it is a difficult one and I have a terrible habit of failing campaigns. In fact, I am 11 days from failing 8 campaigns. 
Therefore, I spent some time today looking for an easier model that qualifies, perhaps an artillery piece.
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I have to add a WW1 tank to the motor pool. Thinking of either a French FT-17 or a British MKIV Male.
Either the smallest or the largest of the tanks fielded in WW1… Maybe a French St. Chammond, with it’s complets suspension system.
Which brings me to the 2022 remake of the movie “All Quiet on the Western Front”, where there’s a scene between the German and French forces that included an armored assault with St. Chammond tanks.
I think I found a picture of one of the movie used tanks; built on a Russian BMP-1 chassis.
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Combat debut for the St. Chamond is 1917. The FT-17 and Mark V make their combat debuts in 1918.
A bunch of armored cars and field guns are around in 1916. This may be a good time to build a Rolls Royce.
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How about “Modern Day Regional Conflict?” Pick a geographic place of conflict in the world, provide a few factual historical paragraphs and photos about the conflict in that area in your post entry, and select a model to represent that conflict area. It doesn’t have to be “popular in the news,” but it definitely has to be factual that the reader can look it up on the internet and confirm that the conflict actually took place or there is tension in the region.
Rules: I say the conflict dates should be 2023-2026 in the news or the internet and on Earth. No fantasy, Sci-Fi, or fictional entries allowed. The model has to actually depict the weapons, vehicles, or AFVs being used in that conflict area. Planes, AFVs, warships, soldiers, drones, and submarines welcome as long as they’re historically matched to the news. No “Fake News,” “What-Ifs,” or AI entries. Entered models have to show "good taste” and not be overly bloody, racist, or gross, gory, and macabre. It can even go “non-military extreme” as such sanitation workers cleaning up daily street garbage, or engineers battling unsanitary water, or DPW workers battling graffiti, or pest control in a major city combating rats (yes, they sell rat models). 3D printed models welcome.
That way, the modeler can model some large to small unknown conflicts and bring some perspective as to what is going on involving peace, war, and regional security.
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How about “Everyone gets the same plinth size” campaign?
Rules: Moderator picks a plinth size and the campaign participants build whatever they want on it. Entries have to fit within the top dimensions of the plinth. (A plinth are the vertical blocks, not the flat bases). Suspension above the plinth is allowed, but nothing can be glued or added to the sides of the plinth. The goal is to restrict the modeler into selecting the appropriate kit to fit the plinth size. Landscaping and foliage only with no model kit is allowed. The plinth cannot be used as a stand for a larger warplane above it, meaning the plinth is not used as a paperweight. If the selected plinth’s size is 6x6 centimeters or 10x10 centimeters, then the participants cannot exceed and build outside those top surface dimensions, but they can build upwards.
Here is an online shop showcasing plinths.
Another 2026 campaign idea can be: “Everyone gets the same flat base size.”
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How about a “Two-tone or Tri-color” campaign?
Rules: Select any figure or vehicle that only showcases two or three primary exterior colors. Headlights, taillights, and interiors are excluded. It can be fictional, fantasy, Sci-Fi, warships, boats, cars, commercial jets, trucks, you decide as long as it has two or three colors as the major primary exterior painted colors. For example, a Star Wars TIE fighter OOTB will not qualify because the black solar panels are not painted, meaning that the TIE fighter is just one exterior color…gray…unless you paint it two-tone! A gray AT-AT will not qualify unless you paint it two-tone. A figure wearing a gray shirt, blue pants, and white shoes will qualify.
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…but only if dressed for a round of golf! 
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Otherwise, an interesting idea. I can see lots of “discussion” about what’s in or out though…
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Does “Natural Metal” count as a colour? Would multiple metal (not metallic) shades count, or would there have to be significant areas of painted banding or striping (in addition to any other markings)? I have a tendency to default to multi-metal finishes when I run out of ideas…
Regards,
M
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“A color tone refers to the lightness or darkness (tonal value) of a hue, created by mixing a pure color (hue) with gray, making it less vibrant but not necessarily lighter or darker like a tint (with white) or shade (with black). More broadly, “tone” can describe a specific, standardized color (like a Pantone) or the overall appealing harmony of colors, but in art, it usually means adding gray to a color to soften it.” –Google AI
Yes, a natural metal finish and multiple metal color tones (such as a metallic or non-metallic paint box set of various shades of the same metal or gray color) counts for the campaign as long as the viewer can see the gradients of tonal changes of light and dark.
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Yes, that metal biplane would work as long as you add the red via paint or decals. It has to show two or three colors or tonal shades of metal or light to dark in colors. That is why the TIE fighter doesn’t qualify because the solar panels are naturally black (a given because very few modelers change the solar panels’ colors from black); you’re going to have to paint the TIE fighter body another color besides gray to achieve two-tones of colors.
The campaign’s goal is to add creativity and imagination in using two or three-tone painting or decals. It has to be part of the body of the entered model. A lion’s decal tacked on won’t do…that’s art. Sure, you can paint in five tones or more, but why if the campaign’s goal is only 2-3 colors of exterior paint? A black and white police car qualifies. An all-black or dark blue S.W.A.T. truck will not (one color tone).
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Besides a “Your Figure Keeps on Improving” campaign, did we ever have a “Fantasy, RPG, video game, Anime, and Dungeons and Dragons” figure campaign?
I know that there’s a continuing Sci-Fi Campaign, but I don’t ever recall a fantasy or non-Sci-Fi fictional figure campaign.
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I’m getting ready to build something for the Convoy campaign, but for a new one is there any interest in a 5-ton category?
Most unusual, or just another 5-ton. Anything would do.
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The risk with a 5T campaign is it might be a bit narrow…
What sort of trucks fit the bill? I assume all the ‘Nam trucks were 5Ts, but then the famous 2-1/2T CCKW was nominally a 5T truck when on paved roads.
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Would there be interest in a War in Ukraine GB, we are approaching the 4 year anniversary of the “Special Military Operation” starting
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Isn’t there a “Ukraine” chunk of territory on the site already? I know it’s not a “Campaign” as such.
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I was thinking of yes, the CCKW but also the later M54 series, the M813 and
M939 series as well as the more recent FMTV models - which I haven’t studied yet and the various derivatives of each (wrecker, GS, tractor, mobile crane, gun truck, dump, bridge truck, wrecker/tractor, fuel truck, towed artillery limber, mobile CP, kitchen truck, Oh not forgetting armoured cab variants, (FMTV etc.)
That would take us from the early ‘40’s up until today.
The above would provide the opportunity to model any one of around 20-35 different 5-ton trucks.
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