Perhaps “Trading Places” or "The 'I don't want this kit, you don't want that kit' build" would be a better name for this transatlantic, globalised joint build but we wanted to get your attention and it
is April Fool's day after all
The idea is simple. CeeElle had a Revell BMW Procar kit with the Renaissance Carte de France transkit he didn't want (the fool!) and I had an Italeri Ferrari Daytona kit that I didn't want (who can I unload this on?) I took his BMW. He took my Ferrari. Everyone was happy.
(sorry for the bad quality of this image but it is my first attempt at an animated gif)
But then we started thinking, and you know what happens when two modelers do that. We thought it would be fun to explore in one thread what each of us saw in a kit the other had lost all interest in. A joint build was born! (despite the Polish post office's best efforts to scuttle this idea before it even began).
And so CeeElle is going to build an Italian kit of an Italian car that went to America by way of Poland. And I am going to build a German kit (with French transkit) of a German car that came to Poland by way of America.
Woo. My head hurts!!
I have to say I am interested to see what CeeElle will do with my kit and I am hoping that I don't destroy those neat looking CdF decals from Renaissance.
We haven't set time limits or parameters of any kind and this certainly isn't a competition – just some fun. We'll progress in a haphazard and uncoordinated way and hopefully finish sometime this decade
CeeElle says he's going to finish the Daytona because it's his main entry in the 60th Anniversary Group Build, but we'll see...
Thanks for looking in and enjoy
CeeElle and Stevenski