What would be cool is a 'build' or 'how-to' sub forum. Look at the Panzerketten forum. They have one and it's awesome, everythings a heavy mod or a scratch build. That way those of us that want to have build threads and the like could post there and the people that want to do the text chatting can do that in some other place you could simply pass over or participate if that's your thing.
Perry