You know the ones where each issue comes with another bit of the model to build....
Seems they are a total rip off. Saw an ad for one where you ultimately build a model of the Bismarck and as it sounded interesting I looked a bit further into it. Seems that you need 140 weekly issues to complete the model so it will take almost three years and after the first couple of introductory issues it's a subscription of £8.99 a week so just over £1,200 for your model and the instructions on how to build it.
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Have you literally only just realised this?!
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What Dusty said
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Yes I'd never actually bothered looking into them before and had rather assumed that it was a subscription for a few months rather than years.
I'm sure I must be able to buy the model kit elsewhere online for a fraction of the price.
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I thought that type of thing was aimed at children
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FFS sails.
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What is that, Saillaw?
It's a model icebreaker, sir.
It's a bit big for a model, isn't it?
It's a full-scale model, sir.
It's not a model if it's full-scale, Saillaw, it's an icebreaker.
Yes, it's good, isn't it, sir? It's got three engines, an enormous...
No no no, that's not the point. That is not a model. It'll be hell if this comes out at speech day exhibition. You're a very stupid boy building icebreakers like this, Saillaw.
Yes, sir.
Now I won't say anything to the headmaster if you can get it down to a minimum of four foot.
But sir! There's fifteen hundred tons of steel in this...
Do you want to come and see the headmaster with me?
No, sir.
Well, melt it down at once.
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Stix this was a full scale model of the Bismarck complete with working gun turrets so I think squarely aimed at late teenagers and adults.
Did once find a model aircraft carried on Amazon and may need to add that to my pond naval fleet.
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Sorry I mean a 1:2500 scale model as clearly the parts for a full scale version would require a number of trucks and I'd also need a dry dock to build it in.
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A particular type of late teenager and adult tbf.
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Indeed military history geeks who are also interested in all things nautical.
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Sailo those plates on the back of Sunday supplements are quite pricey too.
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what Dusty said
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??? well they are gun turrets that swivel about which is good enough for a model.
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The airfix version can fire .352 depleted uranium rounds at a dartboard
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state of this thread
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Was a similar issue for the Millennium Falcon model. Usually DeAgostini. Unbelievable really. But there you go - a fool and his money are soon parted, innit?
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Well, not soon parted. 140 weeks!
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I saw that Bismark magazine thing on the TV as well. Smiled. It took me back at least 40 years. A subscription scam which I didn't think existed anymore.
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Sergio Clitoris heh
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Tbf this is well worth the investment.
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the fook are you doing buildding a bismark anyway? are you some sort of neo wrongun or something?
you wanna get building one of these
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?t=162811
do it up as HMS Temeraire
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FFS, ROF - *this*:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/1d/b4/221db4ec0d0633c9794064238c5386c…
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That is stunning. Where did you find that?
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God led me to it.
But He was in cat form.
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And yes, I realise you were reply to Sumo... ;)
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Can't find a bloody picture of the Elvis Tutankhamun Dambusters Clock that will fit the screen...
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Heh - a true classic for the discerning collector. I have five of them.
And lest we forget those glorious 32 teeth, Ma'am...
http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/094_04212014_01-22.jpg
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No, I was replying to you, BC. Managed to find one on Amazon and have bought one for MJJ. She will no doubt treasure it.
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Buzz don’t know if you’re on twitter but viz last week tweeted an actual Life of Christ in Cats advert (this one the nativity) that was 100% genuine in its sincerity.
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Anyone seen the reports this morning about the comic that has got into trouble for running a story line with Jesus as a superhero side kick? I thought it sounded quite funny but the blasphemy mob but are up in arms.
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Heh - good work, Badders - IMHO it's the apogee of Viz's work in this area. She's a very lucky girl.
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heh @ everything
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tl;dr obvs
and sails you’re the gift that keeps on giving
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Personally, I think that Viz's best one-off strip was "Jump-jet Fanny and her Hawker-Siddley twot". But I can't find a tea towel with that on. Oh well.
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A m6 of mine worked on Harriers. I found a fairly high quality jpeg of that strip, printed it and framed it for him.
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Wink Brown, optician, in this month’s, is pyss funny.
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Can you find it and send it to me, Buzz? [email protected]
You're a star if you can.
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Just sent it.
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R&R. You're officially Da Man.
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It's one of my all time favourites...
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Heh@Dusty and this thread.
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Update: I have now had the Jump Jet Fanny strip made into a tea towel. Should arrive within the next week.
I'm going to get so many brownie points for all this.
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My m8 dave's dad (assume it waznt his mam but let's not rule it out) had stuck a giant poster on the back of the downstairs bog door.
It was the Ministry of Bottom inspectors in the style of Lord Kitchener withe tag line NOW WIPE YOUR BUM.
i have searched several times for this to no avail.
alackaday.
Buzz, do your stuff
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Heh. I will have a rummage.
Good call on the tea towel. The bottom inspectors would be a good call for a tea towel. Especially if you hang it on a tea towel holder
I'd get a JJF&HH-STw@ tea towel myself but I still haven't bought the Joy Division over gloves I promised myself and probably ought to stick to one item of kitchen tat at a time.
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*oven gloves
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I was watching Horrible Histories with the nippers the other day (just to keep them company like, it's not like it's my fave tv show) and discovered the yanks distributed bog paper over europe in ww2 with hitlers face on each sheet.
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just make one Wang
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That's a nice unexpected half ton on a totally niche subject.
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aye
way to be so humble about it sun
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Our doggy day care lady gave us some Donald Trump bog roll. I've been saving it for Saturday mornings post Friday night Chicken Jaal Maal.
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I have have some Donald Trump bog roll. It genuinely make me smile applying his face to my nipsy.
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Crying with laughter at this thread.
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This was also available for Cameron and Simon Cowell back in the day. You could also get a Cowell calendar but no Cameron version was ever produced.
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still heh at Sergio Clitoris
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Vibrating Bum-faced Goats ftw.
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What's worse, at some point the penny is going to drop with some of the not-so-smart subscribers about how much this is going to cost, and they're going to abandon the project.
Then the manufacturer discontinues because the economies of scale means it's financially impractical.
Leaving you with parts of a battleship and no way of completing it...
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Eaglemoss have gone bust. From 60million pa turnover to zero.
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sounds like quite a lot of you spend many a dark evening hunched over with your hands stuck together leafing through a magazine of models
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