Group Build Description: Simple, build a kit and backdrop/dio from an original photo reference.
Event Details: As the title says - - - - Build a kit and a backdrop/dio from a photo. Any scale, and kit as long as its referenced in a photo. Entries from any previous Build a photo that were not completed as classed as clear to re-enter. Any questions just ask and more in depth rules will be discussed in the staging process.
Completion Award: to be designed at a later
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The details will be pretty much as per the previous ones I ran, any type of kit, and scale and the build vehicle can be 25% built already but the finished item must have a dio/backdrop included as per the original ref image which must be shown in the posts.
I’ve never done one. Just to confirm, does the photo have to be a period photo, or can it be a modern photo of an old subject?
Reason I ask is I have had an idea for a while and I want to try it out here! I was nearing the end of a Nakajima B6N build when I spilled glue on the entire lower wing melting a lot of the detail. The rest of the kit was fine so I ordered another one and used the lower wing. Now I have a full other kit unbuilt with the lower wing detail damaged. Not wanting to toss a complete kit, I decided to table it and wait for inspiration to hit. Well I stumbled across these photos and videos from Truk lagoon of a B6N wreck.
I will base it off a specific photo. (Sorry photo uploads still down). This would allow for me to hide the lower wing in the sand and still build the kit. Would also add a diver figure or two!
I was going to try and discipline myself not to do campaigns, as I often bite off more than I can chew (though I quite enjoyed the Veterans’ one); anyway, I think I’m up for this; my inspiration being:
Well Mike, I don’t know about a masterpiece; probably 1 x car and 3 x tanks - I’ll have to scale it all down a bit. I must admit I’m looking forward to the colour schemes on the tanks - Buntfarbenanstrich I believe.
Just to stress, in case you get the wrong idea, this will be in small scale - 1/72 as opposed to anything larger, though I must admit, a 1/35 Grosstraktor in 1/35 would be quite something; so, it will be akin to an earlier effort of mine - and a similar timescale:
