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Operation Pedestal, with Spitfires ...

Post by DazDaMan »

Original thread title: So.... another Spitfire build next year?! so the next couple pages make sense ...

After all, you can never have too many! :ha:

Any kit, scale, variant etc. So long as it's a Spit, it's allowed.

Anyone?
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Re: So.... another Spitfire build next year?!

Post by JohnRatzenberger »

Actually, yes, you can have too many.

We have had one a year since 2012 and the Edgar Brooks Memorial GB this year made a nice culmination. The GB Guidelines, para B.3, discuss our desire to refine overly broad subjects to a more limited scope and this seems particularly appropriate.
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Re: So.... another Spitfire build next year?!

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Fair enough.
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If you're desperate for a fix Daz, I'm relinquishing my proposed RATO Seafire for the Winkle Brown GB to concentrate on a couple of Winkle figures and Winkles MG so any of Winkles Spits or ....err... Seas?! are up for grabs :-D
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Seafires. That would be different: The Spitfire that went to sea. Sounds like a good book title. :lol:
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-or GB theme? :twisted:

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Re: So.... another Spitfire build next year?!

Post by Gadfly »

Yes when faced with the prospect of no Spitfire GB let's have a Seafire GB instead...

That's creative.....

It's a lovely iconic aircraft and all that but crikey another Spitfire GB.

If you were a member in different forums I reckon you could build 20 Spitfires in 12 months as GB entries if you picked your GB's wisely...

It's not a subject that lacks GB scope...
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Gadfly wrote:I reckon you could build 20 Spitfires in 12 months...
That sounds like a challenge. :-D
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Re: So.... another Spitfire build next year?!

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Old_Tonto wrote:
Gadfly wrote:I reckon you could build 20 Spitfires in 12 months...
That sounds like a challenge. :-D
Yep! ;-)
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Re: So.... another Spitfire build next year?!

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Just out of curiosity, how many have you built in the last 12 months, Daz?

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Re: So.... another Spitfire build next year?!

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Umm....

A few?!

I would have to go back and check, but it's bound to be more than what's on the forum!
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I would be up for a Seafire build.
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jssel wrote:I would be up for a Seafire build.
I have two in the stash - one partly painted (though no building done as yet) and the other unstarted.
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Re: So.... another Spitfire build next year?!

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The lack of a Spitfire GB would not preclude building a Spitfire for a GB - you just have to think of a suitable theme that would enable you to build a Spitfire. How about, for example, a build for the 75th Anniversary of the Dieppe Raid, or the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Alamein? Both have wide scope for entries (air, sea or land), including - gasp! - Spitfires.
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Dang. How I envy those who can think outside the box :grin:
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