General Discussion

[NARSES2]

Right , here's the board for your general chit-chat and discussion about the GB

[Weaver]

Hmm, got lots of potential projects for this one, but it's almost certain that the next few months will get busy on the late aunt's house/will front (in fact I'm amazed it hasn't already) and that has to take priority, so I'll have to play it by ear.

The Logical UFO Interceptor and the Logical Space 1999 Eagle Transporter are the things currently rolling round in my head.

[RAFF-35]

I can't wait to see what others come up with for this GB.  It's not a topic I dabble in too often.

Although this has lined itself up quite nicely for me to build the ship from my Whiff story, Wrath Of The Droid, called the Stentor.

[RAFF-35]

I've just had a thought for a second entry.... are sub-orbital space planes allowed?

[PR19_Kit]

I haven't a CLUE what I'd for this GB, I may sit it out while I catch up on all the Shelf Queens I have.

[Gondor]

I am wondering if a TARDIS would be applicable to this GB? That would, depending on its camellion circuit, be almost anything. The back story would have to do all the heavy lifting though.

Gondor

[Weaver]

I am wondering if a TARDIS would be applicable to this GB? That would, depending on its camellion circuit, be almost anything. The back story would have to do all the heavy lifting though.

Gondor

1. Get yourself a policebox model in HO/OO (1/76th) (railways scenery companies do them: I've got one)
2. Build ANY random collection of similar-sized objects/vehicles from your to-do list
3. Build two or three unworldly dioramas*
4. Photograph EVERY model in EVERY diorama
5. Make up a backstory about the chameleon circuit going haywire

*I've made two dios in my life, both of which are here:

Moonscape is easy: Das Pronto base, rocks, craters, sand, grey paint.

Snowscape is easy: Das Pronto base, thick snow over everything, add some weird architecture or a bit of crashed spaceship to show it's not just on Earth
 (buy proper modelling snow powder: DON'T cheap out & use baking soda: it goes yellow)

Spaceship interior is easy: grey/silver walls+floor, few high-tech greeblies from the spares box, "alien" writing (make it up), space scene stuck to the outside of a window



You could have a lot of fun with the screwed-up chamelion circuit:

Get two Police boxes and paint one pink, or circus tent colours.

Have it generate random collections of stuff of the same overall form. The one that's stuck in my head is a Bren Carrier with a portaloo on top of it.

Play with scale: have a 1/43rd car door set in a rock, or an impossibly small Flash-Gordon-esqe "rocket ship" (made from drop tanks or a kid's toy).

[Mossie]

I've just had a thought for a second entry.... are sub-orbital space planes allowed?

Yes, it's main operating environment is in outer space. 

I am wondering if a TARDIS would be applicable to this GB? That would, depending on its camellion circuit, be almost anything. The back story would have to do all the heavy lifting though.

Gondor

A TARDIS is a spaceship.  I'll be interested how you pull this off. 

[Gondor]

I only brought the possibility of such a thing being done; I never said that I would do it.

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

1. Get yourself a policebox model in HO/OO (1/76th) (railways scenery companies do them: I've got one)

Yeah, we know about that one.......

It's the one you CLAIM isn't in the TrackRover diorama, but we know different of course! 

[Gondor]

1. Get yourself a policebox model in HO/OO (1/76th) (railways scenery companies do them: I've got one)

Yeah, we know about that one.......

It's the one you CLAIM isn't in the TrackRover diorama, but we know different of course! 

That's a good point Kit. Has Weaver used that to go back and forth through time to build the same diorama for two group builds?

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

More than likely, yes. 

[Weaver]

1. Get yourself a policebox model in HO/OO (1/76th) (railways scenery companies do them: I've got one)

Yeah, we know about that one.......

It's the one you CLAIM isn't in the TrackRover diorama, but we know different of course! 

That's a good point Kit. Has Weaver used that to go back and forth through time to build the same diorama for two group builds?

Gondor

That's an excellent new idea, but at the same time, I'm sure I've heard it somewhere before...

[perttime]

"The Kármán line, an altitude of 100 km (62 mi) above sea level, is conventionally used as the start of outer space in space treaties and for aerospace records keeping."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space

[jcf]

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