Group Build Description: A fun, short summerly campaign. Nothing too fancy (probably). Just relaxing. Keep it simple.
Build a kit, original release date pre-2000 and do so during the summer. Whether on holiday or at home, in the garden or on the beach, during a barbecue or when having a drink. Just watch out with the sharpies.
2023-04-30T22:00:00Zâ2023-08-30T22:00:00Z
Event Details: Any kit is allowed, as long as it is originally from before the year 2000. It is ok when a few parts have been assembled, but it should be about the building, not finishing. Thatâs what the âunfinished businessâ-campaign is for.
Aftermarket and PE are allowed too, preferably following the same rules.
Completion Award: Thanks to @petbat we now have a medal too!
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Sounds fun! The '90s were a real golden age for modeling, with some serious improvements in kit manufacturing. A nice, easy Hasegawa Hurricane, Accurate Miniatures Allison Mustang, or Tamiya 1/48 F4U would indeed be a fun break! Of course, I have way too much going on already, but stillâŚ
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I better join in the fun too. Tamiya Schutzenpanzer Marder released in 1977.
My kit has been collecting dust for at least 30 years.
I have a RB Model barrel, AFV Club Diehl 828 tracks and an Eduard set to use on it. The latter is for the 1A2 kit, but I will only be using select bits.
Oy Vey, like I donât have too many projects already. Iâve got plenty of candidates for this one; an Entex 1/72 F4F-4, with folding wings ($1.49 on the carton), a RoG Spanish Galleon, an Airfix 1/72 Me-262 bagged kit, Airfix O-1 Bird dog ($5 sticker), several Airfix SB2Cs, a Frog 1/72 F6F-3, a Hawk 1/72 XF-92 and probably a dozen more I canât see just now.
Maybe if I can build it as I did when I was a kid? Lots of bare plastic, glue runs and finger marks on every surface, paint slathered around wildly but none on the interior? Thatâs pretty much what happens nowadays anyway but Iâve got out of the habit of cutting round the waterslide decals and glueing them on. My declining skills are returning me childish standards. Iâve heard of a person with encroaching senile dementia being described as âentering their second childhoodâ but no-one can say that of me as I never left my first⌠On another group I once said my lifetime objective was to go direct from adolescence to senility without an intervening period of maturity; I was promptly bombarded with messages congratulating me on achieving my goalâŚ
There was only one kit until the 2008 re-issue with ICM Russian figures, Ryan. It is the same base kit in any case.
It is the 2014 issue that is different to the original as it comes with a re-worked A sprue with the engine deck hatch open and a separate engine hatch on the new sprue C, which also has simplified engine parts. It also has different figures included to the previous releases.
Iâve got plenty of candidates for this one; an Entex 1/72 F4F-4, with folding wings ($1.49 on the carton), a RoG Spanish Galleon, an Airfix 1/72 Me-262 bagged kit, Airfix O-1 Bird dog ($5 sticker), several Airfix SB2Cs, a Frog 1/72 F6F-3, a Hawk 1/72 XF-92 and probably a dozen more I canât see just now. 
