I think this is a very long term project. Let's pick say stugs. A-G with 3 varients of G and two of F, that's 10 builds - this is like a 3 year project!!!
John ,
What about the SUTG IV 's thats another 2 kits there. AMPSCV did a STUG display in Harve de Grace Maryland for the '09 AMPS show & We had 18 Stug's there. The STUG III F was also in the Flam thrower variant - so that's 3 for the F - actually there's more than 3 for the G .... if you wanted to get technical ...
http://ampscv.org/stug.html
Just in the STUG III G's there were a hand full - Early, Mid , Late , G on the Pz III M chassis , Stuh 40 , The German Ersatz BoB ( similiar to the Ersatz Panther M-10 , but th stug was mocked up to resemble a Sherman), - Tons of stuff. I think We actually modeled every variant of the STUG franchise including Early & Late STUG IV . Excluding an Ambulance & Munitions schlepper variant & there may have been a Berge version , it may have been a converted STUG ,with super structure taken off ?? I gotta look through My STUG pix reference.
Plus ... what if you picked the Pz. IV franchise ? Tons of variants ( A-J) - Early , Mid, Late, Hybrid variants then you could get really nutty & do captured variants :gogo What if you took the Panther - sure at first you think there's only 3 variants ... but what about th Berge D early, Berge A/G , berge G , Panther II , Panther F , The All Steel wheeled Panther, & the Panther with th last station having a Steel wheel ? - Now that's 10 Panthers ... Oh & what about th one that had th Dozer Blade on it - 11 Panthers !
I agree ... If it were left up to one person to pick a Vehicle & build the entire evolution ... it could take Years & lots of $$, Plus you'd expect that Builder to Devote an Incredible amount of time to that group. It could easily go longer than a year ... & That's if no one loses interest in th Build.
I think it would be better if the Ground Pounders could settle on a Variant & the Fly-Boyz could settle on a variant & each participant pick a variant & go at it ??? I dig th Idea, but leaving it up to individuals to do complete evolutions of a vehicle is a Tall order ... indeed !
Just My $ .02(USD)