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GB ideas for 2026

PaulTRose

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Just wondering if any one has any ideas for GBs for 2026

Ive been trying to think of notable things thats happened in 1916/1926/1936 etc that give a reason to model stuff

1916 was year that tanks were first used in combat..... So history of tanks?

1936 was first flight of helicopter and also first flight of the spitfire...... Both lend to a lot of variation for builds

1946......Churchill coins the phrase 'iron curtain'....... So either anything cold war or nato/sovbloc aircraft

1956......first flight of Dassault Mirage III.... Lots of variants used by loads of countries

Other than that i cant think of anything suitable

Anyone else got any ideas?

We only have the logistic gb bookmarked so far so we need to put our thinking caps on
 
Ive been thinking about suggesting an Italian air force GB for a while now - any era or aircraft (of any country ) just serving in Italian markings , so the co belligerent ACI , aeronautica militaire , or modern italian air force are all included. Theres loads of interesting ( if not easy ) schemes and lots of rarely seen interesting subjects.
 
Some good ideas so far 👍

Apparently its also the 250th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. declaration of independence so maybe a U.S. themed build?
Or African military, lots of unusual camo schemes.

Geoff.
 
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stillp said:
What about Leonardo?
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Did you see that american series where they had a team of wood and metal workers, artists, inventors etc and each program they would take a da vinci design and actually try and build it? The helicopter was a monumental fail lol lol
 
PaulTRose said:
Did you see that american series where they had a team of wood and metal workers, artists, inventors etc and each program they would take a da vinci design and actually try and build it? The helicopter was a monumental fail lol lol
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I didn't see that series, but I was told by an American (so it must be correct...) that the US military sponsored a university project to build the Leonardo helicopter and submit it to the forces for evaluation. The Navy said it was hopeless because it could only go up and down but couldn't steer. The Army said it was for artillery observation, instead of a balloon, so it didn't need to steer, just going up and down was all it was designed for!
Pete
 
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For a car gb how bout picking a country like japan or Italy or Germany....... Lots of different brands throughthe years
 
Some good ideas as I said before 😊

Anyone willing to run with their idea and post it up on the gb proposal thread?

Geoff.
 
How about a "Back to Basics" type GB, where participants can't use any extra's, no photo etch, no weathering, no 3rd party added bits, just a basic kit and maybe we could allow, say a primer and three paint colours and thats it, no pigments, no washes, no then see what the kit turns out like.
So sort of stripping scale modelling right back.
Bear in mind after the GB, you could then go on to "finish" your model as you see fit.
 
pjgtech said:
How about a "Back to Basics" type GB, where participants can't use any extra's, no photo etch, no weathering, no 3rd party added bits, just a basic kit and maybe we could allow, say a primer and three paint colours and thats it, no pigments, no washes, no then see what the kit turns out like.
So sort of stripping scale modelling right back.
Bear in mind after the GB, you could then go on to "finish" your model as you see fit.
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Interesting, but the number of colours is limiting unless you are simply referring to main colours such as camouflage, rather than small dabs of colours on engines or weapons etc?

Although I have a few basic kits that may be suitable here, when would it start?
 
That's sort of the idea with limiting the number of paints, so it forces you to concentrate on what's important or to get creative with the available paints? Three was just an example, obviously it would be by agreement, so could be more....
 
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