The Neglected Kit Resurrection Groupbuild

D N
Must get this one on the road 🙂

Calvin Gifford
I don't know what I will enter in with as my first kit - believe me, I have plenty!! Though I will try to find my oldest one.

Calvin Gifford
Not sure how to 'Link' my photo album with the group build. Instead of entering my oldest one - the easiest one was the first one I came across! LOL

Stefan Schneider
You just have to assign the EXACT name of event (in this case the name of the groupbuild) to the album. No additional words or things like that. The album should be displayed on the event page afterwards.

Calvin Gifford
Thanks!

Choppa Nutta
well I was just curious was all 😄

H K
The neglected "The Neglected Kit Resurrection Groupbuild" groupbuild starting soon™ 😄

Choppa Nutta
lol, I hope so 🙂
I've managed to complete 3 of my neglected kits thus and feels good to get them done and dusted 🙂
I have a few more though 🙂

H K
The whole Groupbuild stuff fizzled out. I think it needs some improvements.
IMO Armorama has the best Groupbuilds on the net. Maybe copy some things for example the thing with the badges, which should work much better on scalemates than on a regular forum.

Choppa Nutta
not familiar with Armorama, but yes it could be better and less fiddly to join a group etc. not to take anything away from Tims efforts etc. 🙂

Choppa Nutta
welcome Clifford and Vincent, I see you are in competition with each other, this is not a feature of group builds I was aware of, what's that all about then ? 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Got me.

Choppa Nutta
weird hey, must be a new feature no one is aware of yet 🙂

Choppa Nutta
weird hey, must be a new feature no is aware of yet 🙂

Choppa Nutta
Well I thought I'd ask anyway 🙂

Steve Wilson
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Choppa Nutta
lol 🙂
I like you Steve, you is a funny geezer 😄

Steve Wilson
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🙂 [img1] Lol!!! (((😄 )))

Steven Gilbert
What if the kit is like a couple monthes shy of 1 year, may I still join?

Steve Wilson
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I can't see why not... What yer! say Chop' ???

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
come in and start your sleeping project! 👍

Choppa Nutta
Yeah I reckon so too 🙂
welcome aboard Steven 🙂

Steven Gilbert
How do I attend this event where do I go?

Choppa Nutta
I've written instructions in the intro text 🙂

Choppa Nutta
1) Scroll down to the Visitors section and click on the button called "Attending this event"

2) Create (or rename) an album and call it exactly this name, no extra dots or dashes etc. -
The Neglected Kit Resurrection Groupbuild

3) Link it to your chosen project, create one if don't have one. Can be named anything you like. (although this seems optional)

4) Upload at least one photo and hopefully more 🙂

Choppa Nutta
Now then Steve, nice of you to jump in this one too 🙂
I hope you'll be bringing a Ferrari to the table, given how posh this event is 😄

Steve Wilson
Not wanting to let Lord Ashfordly and his posh do down...
And yes!!! as I only build Ferrari's, I will be leaving Ferrari skidmarks on the Pembroke👍8)😄

Choppa Nutta
lol 🙂
one nice thing about this event is the variety of the different builds

Steve Wilson
Well now, I like the sound of this😢
Especially with no time limits, restrictions or rules (as such) etc etc etc...
Spent most of the day researching all my started but unbuilt kits, I have several unfinished builds that I've put aside because of one reason or other for a rainy day, It now sounds/looks like a good time to dust em! off and get em! out, finished even...
First up!!! is Jean Todts all Carbon Fibre Ferrari FXX, presented on the QT, to him by luca di montezemolo on behalf of Ferrari... The car Ferrari never built, or so, at least Ferrari claimed. Ferrari said that 'technically' Jean Todt's car doesn't exist, because Ferrari never gave it a build number. Hmmmmm!!! so why is Jean Todt building a museum in Paris, where his Carbon Fibre FXX will be on display???🤔
I started building this kit, coo! let me see now, the Tamiya Ferrari FXX kit came out in 2006, the SMS super detail kit came out about a year later, so, ermmm! somewhere between 2007 and 2008 but things started going well wrong with the build, got well p****d off with it and shelved the B*****d. Having spent a couple of hours looking at it, I now wonder what all the fuss was about, it don't look that difficult to rectify and finish. So to put me in the mood for this KRG, it's where I'm going to start.

Choppa Nutta
sounds awesome, make sure you get some photos up of what it looks like now 🙂
One thing I do want to encourage is for people to finish off more than one model in this groupbuild so that their photo album fills up with all their old unfinished kits, one after another, I guess final reveals should be included too as well as the builds obviously 🙂
but also have a separate photo album for just the final reveals as well etc.
But whatever people want to do really, this really is a groupbuild for the non committal 😄
Anyway looking forward to seeing the photos as I am not that familiar with Ferrari's as you 🙂

Steve Wilson
Uploaded pics of the Kit as it stands at the moment...

Hunter Cummins
Lol hey john. Are those tools still avainable??

Leandro Krindges
No, Volgon poetry noooooo!

Choppa Nutta
its all about the under lying metaphors 🙂

John Van Kooten
@Choppa: yes, you! 😛 😉 but not just you 😄 haha!
@Fabian: Choppa meant to say that I was referring to him with the "it's more a remark for other readers... ... before" sentence 😉 and indeed I was 😛
@Leandro: Hahaha! Yes! YES! 😉

@Hunter: the Trumpeter tools are still widely available, so should not really be a problem to get them. They are not too expensive either. For what you get in the package, they are pretty good 👍

This is the toolset: Tools for Zimmerit Coat (Trumpeter 09916, No)

Hunter Cummins
Dthanks john, I will be on the look out for them or I just might order them lol

Choppa Nutta
Du bist wilkommen Holger !! 😄

Holger Kranich
Thank you very much, Choppy!
Feels good to be amongst such ambitious people!😢😢

Choppa Nutta
I got to say the standard of modelers in this groupdbuild is very high indeed !
I kind feel like the weak link a little bit, or at least, I've got a lot of catching up to do 🙂

Holger Kranich
Dont underestimate you, Choppy!
I bet you will surprise us all with a high class one!🙂

Choppa Nutta
haha thankyou for the encouragement, but I am seeing a lot of little mistakes already on the Harrier, the Klear didn't go down evenly and when I left out side in the sun to dry off little flecks of stuff landed in and dried on and removing them is leaving little marks etc plus the wing joins aint great, but I always knew that was going to be the case, I did think about filling them but I don't have the right colour paint anymore to do it and I can't remember what I used, also I wanted this be a fairly rapid completion as I have one or two more to bring the table after this 🙂

But that said there are a few things I've got right, fuselage joins and the painting overall is quite neat, almost happy with how the canopy came out, it won't win any competitions but it will look on the sideboard 🙂

Steve Wilson
Sussed it👍

Steve Wilson
You type " The Neglected Kit Resurrection Groupbuild " nothing else, no full stops comma's or anything else as the title of your album and save it. Done!!!
I had my signature three full stops at the end of my title and it wouldn't do it...

Choppa Nutta
on the intro of the TNKR page I did a little 4 step guide to joining in 🙂

Steve Wilson
Yeah!!!
But you didn't say, " don't add anything to the title," I did and it didn't Lol!!!(((😄 )))

Choppa Nutta
lol, I'll amend that then 🙂

Choppa Nutta
Welcome Berni, will you be repairing toys in the attic for this one ? 😄
nice to see another quality modeler joining in 🙂

berni
hello choppa nutta, well done before. thank you for your praise 😉

Choppa Nutta
you're welcome, looking forward to what you shall be putting on the bench 🙂

Choppa Nutta
Ah ! Mr Marles, I'm glad you joined in because between Jonns's kits of shame thread and your encouraging words was motivation enough for me to start this groupbuild, seems only fitting you should be part of the groupbuild with the least rules on Scalemates 🙂

So what you gonna be opening up out of the box of binge buying then ?

M.Julian Marles
Two drawers..hopefully something simple ! Like repainting, refurbing a mostly OOB build!

Choppa Nutta
wow ! 11 people in on the first day 🙂 welcome aboard John 🙂
Finally, an excuse for the Jagdtiger to become beautiful 😄
and with all that photo etch too .....

John Van Kooten
Thanks! 👍 🙂

Yes, it's quite the gathering, right? What do you think it means? 😛

Honestly, the photo etch actually was what initially made me put this one aside. Simply because I wasn't capable of working with it. But now I'm much better equipped, both in tools and in skill, so I should be able to make something out of it 👍

Anyway, indeed this groupbuild is a good excuse to stop being lazy and go finish this kit 😉 it's a really nice kit too 🙂

Choppa Nutta
I am sure you will make an awesome job of it !
We have high expectations of you John, don't let us down 😄

John Van Kooten
Uh-oh! High expectations are often followed by disappointment 😉 haha! But I'll do my best 😉 👍

Choppa Nutta
haha John, I was just teasing 😄
But you do good work though so it is difficult not to predict good results from you😉

John Van Kooten
Hahaha!😉 I know, mate 👍 😄

And thanks for the big compliment 👍 👍 appreciate that very much! 🙂

Choppa Nutta
well it is true, every where I look I keep seeing such great work and then I look at my own work and it feels humbling, but inspiring too 🙂

Btw, what fo you think of the new logo and header piccy ?
nothing amazing I know but I thought it might suit the theme of the group 🙂
the TNKR abbreviation kind of looks like the word tinker as in to fiddle and faff with which somehow seems appropriate 🙂

John Van Kooten
Haha! Yeah, I know what you mean regarding the humbling feeling 😉 I too see so many amazing pieces of art which are both inspiring and depressing (at times) 😉 up to the point where I sometimes ask myself if I'll EVER be able to do something even remotely looking like that!?

And the answer is always a resounding YES!

Anyone can do anything. All they need to do is commit and basically just do it 😄 some are faster than others but I'm convinced anyone CAN do anything. Talented people have the advantage of being able to get quicker to where they want to go but that's about it 🙂 less talented people may take longer but they are still also able to get where they want to go 👍

The logo looks great! 👍 And "tinker" was indeed the first thing that came to mind when I saw it 😄 LOL and it's certainly fitting!! 👍

Choppa Nutta
Cool glad you like it 🙂
As for the gifted and talented I do think they will always be able to go that bit further than the rest of us but like you say anyone with the patience and the practice can achieve really good results in time 🙂
But it is like anything, you might not win the championship but you can still do well and for me as long as I keep improving I'll be happy (almost 😄 )
My Harrier is looking to be my tidiest model to date, as I am trying to do everything right and avoid the school boy errors and just get the basics sorted out, I'll be keeping the weathering modest on this one 🙂

John Van Kooten
Easing into things always works best for me personally 🙂 and yeah, holding back a little on the weathering for the reasons you mentioned I think is a good thing 👍

I'm convinced your Harrier will look top notch once done! 👍 👍

Choppa Nutta
shall we reserve judgment just yet ?
I've still got plenty of things I could cock up 🙂

John Van Kooten
Me too! 😄 lol!

Choppa Nutta
Heyup Wayne, nice of you to drop by,
what you gonna be digging out of the draw for this one then ? 🙂

Wayne Hale
Not sure the two top contenders are the CG-4A from the mid 1980s or the Stug IV from the late 1990s. What do you think?

John Van Kooten
As an armor modeler I'm obviously pretty biased 😉 but I'd say go for the StuG IV 👍

Choppa Nutta
well I am going to play devils advocate and say do the CG-4A 😄
even though I don't know what CG-4A is 🙂
which kit did you start first ?

Wayne Hale
The CG-4A is an American combat glider used by British and American airborne units in WWII. I spent a few weekends helping to restore the on at the Silent Wings Museum now in Lubbock TX. That was in the mid 8os. I started the kit then but lost interest in it, because I was messing it up. It was a whole lot easier helping a trained glider mechanic that knew what he was doing.

Gordon Sørensen
I say do the CG-4A, then I can watch you while I do mine! I am planning on doing the British version, but my decals are missing.

Choppa Nutta
I've got a feeling it might be CG-4A,sounds unusual but cool 🙂
Why start off your album with a picture of both models so we can see what you've got to choose from

Lionel Marco
I'm I'm with a Churchill Mk I conversion I started on year and a half ago...

Choppa Nutta
Welcome to the Groupbuild Lionel, looking forward to seeing the photos 🙂

Lionel Marco

The time to found how to link my album to the group build

Choppa Nutta
I took the liberty of including some instructions on the intro of this group build but basically you need to create or rename your album -

The Neglected Kit Resurrection Groupbuild

and the n link/attach to your chosen project
hope that helps 🙂

Lionel Marco
Thanks!
It worked...

Choppa Nutta
sweet 🙂

Choppa Nutta
Welcome aboard the good ship Faff About 🙂
I wonder what you might be bringing off the shelf and on to the bench ?

Urban Gardini
I wonder that to mate as I've got my fair share of started kits that I've put away for various reasons.

Choppa Nutta
How many classics have you got in that list ?
Maybe open upThe Neglected Kit Resurrection Groupbuild photo album with some pics of the kits you've got to choose from 🙂

Urban Gardini
I've got a photo somewhere of the drawer with the started kits. So once I get home...

Choppa Nutta
Perhaps an idea might be to finish off the oldest kit first ? 🙂

Urban Gardini
Could be, could be...

Choppa Nutta
or.... what ever appeals most when you open the drawer again 😄

Gábor Bélik
The Swedish CV-90C(?) Will roll out finally. 🙂With a UN paintjob hopefully. Will how it Will work out.

Choppa Nutta
Hi Gabor, welcome aboard 🙂
not heard of this tank before, I look forward to seeing it come together 🙂

Gábor Bélik
Thanks. It is actually together 🙂 except a few bits. The tracks and the re-painting has to be done. It is sitting in my stash for 1,5 year by now. It is a modern AFV.

Choppa Nutta
I look forward to the photos 🙂

Gábor Bélik
Correction CV90-40C.

Urban Gardini
Correction Stridsfordon 9040C (CV9040C).

Urban Gardini
😉

Gábor Bélik
I copied it From the box 😄

Urban Gardini
Well, it's commonly unknown that the Swedish armed branches don't use "dash" in their type numbers.

Choppa Nutta
haha excellent ! Another one into the fray of the unfinished 🙂
Decided what you're gonna do first Babak ?

babak chalangi
i have this F-15 that i started working on befre u can see it on my albums but i dont know how to added to this group !?

Choppa Nutta
create a project for the F-15 and link to an album called -

The Neglected Kit Resurrection Groupbuild

You can change the name of your album to the above name, that will work too and then you're in 🙂

Choppa Nutta
haha brilliant ! started 28 years ago ! lol, I suspect thats the most neglected model thus far 🙂

Hopefully you will be banging them out like prints off a hot press 😄
Btw, no contest as such but I might try and encourage people to do their Pick Of The Month as the builds get completed 🙂

Hopefully we'll see people rack up many old builds here 🙂

Dutch
Great idea!

Choppa Nutta
Jonns fault really for his Kits of Shame thread, seemed like most modellers have unfinished kits somewhere that needed a little jog to get them going again 🙂

Fabian D.
mmh... I´m in, but with what? about 15 to choose from.... 😄

Choppa Nutta
Hi Fabian, nice of you to join in 🙂
look forward to seeing what you will be putting on the bench

Choppa Nutta
what have you got to choose from ?

Fabian D.
almost all of these: , Completed, Ideas, and the few I recently worked on (Figures, T-34 and Sd.Kfz. 251) excluded... difficult chioces😉

Choppa Nutta
yes ! plenty to choose from !
Given my current Nam fest I've got going on I'd like to see your T-34 despite kicking off my contribution to the Neglected Models with a Sea Harrier 😄

Fabian D.
😄
Well... so many kits in the stash, so many ones started, so many more ideas... but so little time - life is hard😉
I was thinking of starting the Italeri StuG this weekend and as I want to do the Zimmerit with Miliput, I should get plenty of 3 hour setting breaks which I can dedicate on other kits...

Choppa Nutta
Hopefully finishing these Neglected Kits will make for some quick building 🙂

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
Now I must count first, with which I start😉

Choppa Nutta
Glad you could make it Jonns, especially as you were the inspiration for this groupbuild with your Kits of Shame thread 🙂
Might I be so bold as to suggest your M151A2 jeep seeing as it is a classic vehicle ?
Given how quickly you built and finished your Strv103B I imagine you'll be making some rapid builds out of your neglected model collection 🙂

Kits of shame | Project by heavensgate (1:35)

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
That's right but I hope I will find all items to finish. But first I have to finish build a scratchmodel for a contest

Choppa Nutta
Luckily this is one groupbuild without a deadline😉
Your scrath build sounds interesting, what are you making ?

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
Any model that fits on a beermate. The theme is free. I now get 3D printing parts and must build it together now with another kit to something beautiful...

Choppa Nutta
wow, sounds really cool 🙂

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
I hope I will be ready by July 15 - that's the deadline 😭

Choppa Nutta
For you that is plenty of time !!
looking forward to the photos, I hope you will be posting some here on Scalemates 🙂

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
Last week I had 4 days free... If I can do it then I show them already. But only after the competition

Peter Jenssen
I'm already on to my first one..
Dug this one out while building the Privateer.
Was stowed away for about a decade after a failed paintjob..
Should be done soon now! 🙂

Choppa Nutta
Welcome and Cool, one of my all time favourite WW2 fighters in my favourite colour scheme too for this classic fighter 🙂