Hello everyone,

First of all I must apologize for my absence leading up too this campaign. Its been a trying time the last few months for me and my family. I am an electrician and the economic slowdown has meant that I have had to work away from home the last year or so. Every week I head north 250kms to work in North Bay ON, and then come home again for weekends.

I have a young family with two small boys 3.5yrs and 21 months old who have missed their daddy alot with me being away. Working then coming home trying to be a dad, husband and grass cutter has left no time at all for this great hobby. I used to come on this site several times a day. I think since April I could count on one hand how many times I have visited.

Hopefully this situation will be changing soon. If everyone is still interested in doing this campaign then it starts on Thursday and I look forward to getting back at the plastic.

I still am not quite sure what I plan to build but will figure that out soon.

If you have any questions feel free to send them to me. I will be at my computer Friday to answer anything you might be wondering. Some of you have PMed me and I will reply when I return. I am typing this on a steam powered computer on dial up. Yikes!

If anyone would like to design a ribbon it would be appreciated. I don't have any idea how to make one. This is my first campaign as leader so any help or advice is always welcome.

Thanks

Jeff

Hi Jeff, sounds like a good idea, i have a few cats i can put in that i have been working on

Life is tough all over. A lot of us are in the same boat so don't sweat it.

Most of a campaign leader's job during the campaign is to make rulings when people ask if the subject they are building fits the rules and providing encouragement as people post progress reports. The latter is something fellow campaigners do a lot so mostly it's the former (and with clear cut rules on the Campaign page, that can be kept to a minimum). Most of the work that can only be done by the campaign leader is at the end (asking for extensions, awarding ribbons).

I haven't figured out what to build either. I have a large choice of IJA and JGSDF subjects to choose from as well as a Trumpeter K1A1.

I forgot to mention two other duties of a campaign leader at the start of a campaign:
1. Have the campaign managers "pin" the campaign message thread,
2. Have the campaign manager create a campaign photo gallery.

So far the only idea I've had is this:

Who wouldn't want a Hello Kitty ribbon?

I don't know how you guys make ribbons, but how about a rising sun behind the black silhoutte of a tank?

As for the build, it will take a while before I will start mine. My bench is quite full at the moment...
When I get to it, it will be a T-54/55 with NVA-troops, during the Battle of Kontum, Vietnam 1972.

I thought about a rising sun but I usually connect that to Japan. Hello Kitty is also Japanese but I just couldn't stop myself from creating a ribbon after I thought about it. For a real ribbon I suppose a sun would work. The nationalist chinese flag had a sun on it. Or maybe an asian style dragon?

Hey Jeff welcome back , good on you for doing what you gotta do to bring in an income .Theres been a lot of threads here about losing jobs , and people sharing the good news of getting work i too have had to find work in a remote location away from my family . i work three or four weeks on and six days off on a drilling project . Onslow Western Australia is a two hour flight and then three hour drive from my home . i take a kit away with me and build what i can after work . I'll re-enlist in this campaign and build the Tamiya T55a Afghan style .

just another great day at the office hahaha

Hey guys do we an official campaign thread and photo gallery to post our models in yet? Im rushing to finish my model to post here soon before I deploy to the sandbox, i just wont have the time to build a model over there

I would treat this as the official thread.

The campaign leader should probably tickle the Armorama Campaign Manager to make this the official thread and to allocate a gallery.

Well, now that I am the Campaign Manager, I have created a photo gallery for this campaign.
http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/24974

I don't seem to have any powers over message threads though. Send a PM to Mike High.

Good job on the take over Gary, I was beginning to worry about where to post the pics of my entry cause I'm just about to give its finishing coats on it tomorrow before the rain hits our place again.

Oh, by the way, MIke clued me into the thread powers. Had 'em, just didn't see 'em!

Heres my campaign entry, Vietnamese PT-76 in 1/35 scale by Glencoe models. I had to do a lot of convertion/add-ons to it because the model was such a terrible undetailed and inaccurate kit

The drivers hatch had to be re-made, the upper front hull needed the "breakwater flap" made out of sheet styrene and the headlights were from another kit with the metal grill around it made from metal wire. At the back I made those exposed gas tanks from modified German jerry cans, not the best looking but it will do

Theres still a lot to be converted in this very wrong model but I just dont have the time for it anymore. Hope you guys enjoy the campaign as much as I did

Hi
Nice build , Haven't even started mine yet still have a couple of other build's to finish first.
Hoping to do a Taiwanese M41.