Some great ideas coming in for themed builds but I am having problems getting a group build out of most of them.
There are a few I have highlighted on MY list. Like wise there are some that have already been done and a few that are the same but with a different name...
Now we have had free reigns to come with all these wild ideas. I would like to take five or ten minuets of your time if I may:
I have a plan that looks a little like this.
I would like to try to get the Group builds to be more solidly defined. I still think back to the first ever group build and still think it was the best of the bunch. We built as a group Now I realise that this is not everyone's cup of tea. So I started the Special Interest builds to try and get this idea back. These very quickly became extra long "group builds".
Right then. We all like the idea that we have these builds and I will continue to set them up. However there will be a few changes:
1)The group builds as we know them now will continue but under the banner Themed builds.
2)The New Group builds WILL be pulled in to be more specific in their content.
3)The Special Interest Builds...I might be tempted to borrow a principle from an other forum, which many of us are also on. We know who we are...
I am thinking of them running alone the lines of some one suggests a Special Interest build. IF and ONLY if there are a minimum of ten people that commit to joining in the build the section will be started, and the fun can begin. Its about tome for that big butt icon: BUT these builds should also be very specific. Not just "anything that was at the battle of the bulge".
More like: Build a leopard 2 mbt or any one of its variants. Or build two cars or motorbikes, one finished as a racer the other as a road version. You get the idea? Very specific.
Lets get the Special back into Special Group Builds.
4) I was rather taken by the idea of a weekend special. A problem I can see is that many of us are rather busy in the weekends, have shift work, or SWMBO has other plans for the weekend. So call it a one week wonder. Start any time between Sunday a.m and have it done finished Saturday PM. Local time to be fair to our colonial cousins.
Now you are all sitting there thinking 'his off his trolly, we will never be able to get all those in in a year'. Well I have a plan for that as well.
1) Themed builds will all be posted at the start of the year and you can build one or all, in any order you wish, just as long as you are done by the end of the year. This will enable all to have all the tie they need to get their bits together.
2) The Group builds will be posted one each quarter, as we know them now.
3) The Special Interest Builds, for as long as they are set to but 4 - 6 months should do it. If they go over the end of the Year, so be it. They will no longer be bound to the calender Year.
4) The one Week Wonders,.... well you can work that out I think.
So What are your thoughts on these suggestions?
Ian M
There are a few I have highlighted on MY list. Like wise there are some that have already been done and a few that are the same but with a different name...
Now we have had free reigns to come with all these wild ideas. I would like to take five or ten minuets of your time if I may:
I have a plan that looks a little like this.
I would like to try to get the Group builds to be more solidly defined. I still think back to the first ever group build and still think it was the best of the bunch. We built as a group Now I realise that this is not everyone's cup of tea. So I started the Special Interest builds to try and get this idea back. These very quickly became extra long "group builds".
Right then. We all like the idea that we have these builds and I will continue to set them up. However there will be a few changes:
1)The group builds as we know them now will continue but under the banner Themed builds.
2)The New Group builds WILL be pulled in to be more specific in their content.
3)The Special Interest Builds...I might be tempted to borrow a principle from an other forum, which many of us are also on. We know who we are...
I am thinking of them running alone the lines of some one suggests a Special Interest build. IF and ONLY if there are a minimum of ten people that commit to joining in the build the section will be started, and the fun can begin. Its about tome for that big butt icon: BUT these builds should also be very specific. Not just "anything that was at the battle of the bulge".More like: Build a leopard 2 mbt or any one of its variants. Or build two cars or motorbikes, one finished as a racer the other as a road version. You get the idea? Very specific.
Lets get the Special back into Special Group Builds.
4) I was rather taken by the idea of a weekend special. A problem I can see is that many of us are rather busy in the weekends, have shift work, or SWMBO has other plans for the weekend. So call it a one week wonder. Start any time between Sunday a.m and have it done finished Saturday PM. Local time to be fair to our colonial cousins.
Now you are all sitting there thinking 'his off his trolly, we will never be able to get all those in in a year'. Well I have a plan for that as well.
1) Themed builds will all be posted at the start of the year and you can build one or all, in any order you wish, just as long as you are done by the end of the year. This will enable all to have all the tie they need to get their bits together.
2) The Group builds will be posted one each quarter, as we know them now.
3) The Special Interest Builds, for as long as they are set to but 4 - 6 months should do it. If they go over the end of the Year, so be it. They will no longer be bound to the calender Year.
4) The one Week Wonders,.... well you can work that out I think.
So What are your thoughts on these suggestions?
Ian M
