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Campaign proposal - German cars
HunterCottage
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Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 - 09:31 PM UTC
I've located an Audi R8 at my LHS, not used to that happening! Usually have to buy online some place!

This is the kit I am looking to enter with:



Just have to wait to be able to make the trip into Stockholm...
SHarjacek
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Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 - 10:10 PM UTC
Nice choice.Im still not sure what model will i do,there are many options .
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 02:27 AM UTC
This is basically a bump to see what is happening with this build. I'm anxiously awaiting for the chance to start on it!!!

Has it been approved yet?
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Monday, November 05, 2012 - 03:30 AM UTC
Bump #2...

I guess this died somewhere, too bad!!
TacFireGuru
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Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 - 03:41 AM UTC
I think you just brought it back to life. Did you submit the proposal?

Mike
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 - 10:27 AM UTC
No, I just bumped it again...

Didn't want to steal it from anybody and it was someone else that had the idea from the beginning. So if it has been approved or whatever is an act of a higher power.
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 - 10:51 AM UTC
But then again I am willing to submit it, if it means I don't step on anybody's toes... I really want to do this Campaign!

So calling all interested!! A roll-call please!


I am ready to submit the following campaign idea:

GERMAN BEAUTIES

Runs 1 Jan 2013 to 1 July 2013

Description:
A German made car, pure and simple. Any type, any era as long as it is considered an automobile. Meaning no motorcycles and no what-ifs. Any scale 1:1200 to 1:6...

Rules:
A model of any German made automobile, but no what-ifs. It has to be considered an automobile though. Any scale, any type, any era, any physical media.

Contest Element:
Make a model, take a pic, load up the pic to the appropriate place and voilá you win a very nifty campaign ribbon! As long as a pic of a completed model is loaded up by the end of the campaign you get a ribbon - meaning get'er done!!!
windysean
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 09:09 AM UTC
I still like this idea. Count me in!
Nothing in my stash (except a half-started Herbie the Love Bug). I'm thinking of that Tamiya Karmann Ghia or a VW camper. Thinking, thinking...
-Sean H.
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 03:42 PM UTC
3 more takers and we lift off!! SWEET!
c5flies
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 03:54 PM UTC
Get it submitted Brian, I'm sure we can scrounge up a few more to join in. We could use a good group build right about now
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 08:38 PM UTC
Sweetness!!! Roger Wilco!!
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 08:55 PM UTC
It is submitted!
ltb073
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Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 02:24 AM UTC
Hey guys cool looking ribbon
Im gonna have to find a German car for this 1
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 06:06 AM UTC
Welcome aboard!!!

I'm definitely sure you'll be able to find one!!
Snowhand
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Posted: Friday, November 09, 2012 - 06:31 AM UTC
I am in with my VW Golf mk 3 I can remind you all that German trucks are probably acceptable too, and there are plenty of them, Mercedes, MAN, Krupp, Hanomag to name a few

HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Friday, November 09, 2012 - 08:58 AM UTC
Welcome Snowhand!!

I have to give trucks some thought... I had only thought to allow automobiles.

But I guess bottom line is I don't want to be in the way of somebody's fun... decisions, decisions!
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 05:40 AM UTC
This campaign/group build is now approved!!!

Enlist here

Join in and have fun!!!
ltb073
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Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 02:55 PM UTC
Ok guys question to the campaign leader
I have a Mini Art MB Type 170v Cabriolet B

that is partially started, engine and chassis are almost complete Will that be accepted here in it Gloss White Civilian attire or dose it have to be an un-started kit
Just asking as im trying to clear out the stash
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 03:56 PM UTC
Yes, that is acceptable!! Welcome aboard!!

I was hoping models from other genre would find there way here to this Group Build!!

Spread the word!!
DaveCox
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Posted: Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 01:08 AM UTC
Officially signed up with the Mercedes C111 rotary-engined concept car. Its far enough down my stash that it should make January......if not I also have a Tamiya Beetle.
SHarjacek
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Posted: Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 01:19 AM UTC
Hi guys,I was away for some time due to some medical problems,but I will join for sure.


Kind regards.
HunterCottage
#116
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Posted: Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 06:11 AM UTC
Dave: Welcome!! I'm glad to hear that you have a contingency plan!!! Very promising indeed!!!

Sven: I hope you don't mind me hijacking the idea in your absence! Glad that you are better so that you can join in on the fun!! Remember this is your baby, I'm just the Sargent Major...
mmeier
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Posted: Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 08:45 AM UTC

Quoted Text

There was an Air-Cooled campaign about two years ago or so (before I got into the campaigns here), and that's basically a subset of German cars. That may have taken some of the kits that would have been built here.
It's worth going back to look at that campaign and how popular it was.
For me, I was in Las Vegas last week and saw this at the Imperial Palace Collections...
VWcamperAtIP-20110812-1455.jpg
Although, I admit the first thought when I was scrolling through all the Armorama and Aeroscale messages and saw this one was a giant Mercedes WWII 6-wheel command car. There is certainly no shortage of cars-- is there a Kharmann Ghia kit out there-- or is that too Italian?
don't mind my rambling!
thanks,
Sean.

Edit: I just took my own advice and checked the Auto Modeler campaigns and gallery-- Air Cooled ran in late 2009, 9 enlisted, and only Harv posted final photos in the gallery here: http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/25212


The Karman-Ghia Typ 14 was basically a "Beetle with an attitude" build "next door from my home" in Osnabrück and of a very mixed chassis design (German based on Italian Job based on a Job done for Chrysler...) using Kafer parts and base

Like all german cars it is more a "transportation device" than a work of art. Sadly the italian "bella machinas" are basically non-existing in scale, I'd kill for a Fiat Regata, Croma or Alfa Romeo 164 in 1/24.
HunterCottage
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Posted: Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 08:52 AM UTC

Quoted Text

Sadly the italian "bella machinas" are basically non-existing in scale, I'd kill for a Fiat Regata, Croma or Alfa Romeo 164 in 1/24.


So do I see a bit of scratch building coming up on your horizon??? Would be awesome to see!!

Hope you find something and join in!!
17741907
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Posted: Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 12:02 PM UTC
Can i make military cars also?
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