Build a model magazines,good value or rip off?

[SexyGreyFox]

There was also something like that in the early 90's called True Crimes about murderers and the like.

I subscribed at 13. My parents must have thought there was something seriously wrong with me

I remember it and it was virtually the same magazine with a different title.
This made me doubly upset because when that came out I still needed the two binders for mine.

 

[*Moangroan*]

Why all the hate? It's not my thing, sure, but there's far worse things to spend money on like smoking.

I dont think the hate is the model making......"£600 for something that probably costs £30. Thats the problem here.

 

[kiteloopy]

I had a dinosaur one when I was about 6, you could build a model T Rex. I only got half the magazines though because you had to build the skeleton first, which looked more badass than the actual finished model, plus the bones glowed in the dark to add to the badassery
I don't think it was anywhere near as expensive per issue though as the ones above as there's no way my mum would have bought me it.
Edit:
Aww yeah this guy knows!

So did I.

Pocket watches for £2...classy.

 

[robfosters]

I dont think the hate is the model making......"£600 for something that probably costs £30. Thats the problem here.

If models of the same quality sold for about £100, then I would agree with you. However they do not.

I will prove my point. DeAgostini have just finished the HMS Victory series. It was over 120 issues at £5.99 each with the first issue a £1.99. A total of £714.80. The model currently sells for £620. proof here http://www.wonderlandmodels.com/products/artesania-latina-hms-victory/

This means that the extra you paid over shop price for all the magazines with detailed instructions, free gifts and postage comes to around £95 for 120 issues. You really think that is excessive?

 

[robfosters]

Daily Mail are ****ging them off today. Saying that it costs over £800 for the final Sovereign Of The Seas build.

They obviously do not realise the complete value of the model. Also, to read the Daily Mail for 135 weeks costs £681. I know which one I would rather have!

 

[leezer3]

Can we tell who you work for by any chance?
(For reference, trade price on the model in question when buying in the kind of bulk these magazines do is likely to be ~£80- £100 lower, so your figures should read more like £200)

I would point out that shilling as a satisfied customer is illegal
(Gets popcorn)

-Leezer-

 

[Anewbe4u]

Daily Mail are ****ging them off today. Saying that it costs over £800 for the final Sovereign Of The Seas build.

They obviously do not realise the complete value of the model. Also, to read the Daily Mail for 135 weeks costs £681. I know which one I would rather have!

Do you work for them?

 

[rowedogg]

Big leap from magazines to fags.

I think he meant cigarettes, not rent boys....

 

[Sinny]

£6 for a few pieces of Balsa wood? No thanks

 

[robfosters]

I have no connection to DA at all.

It's just that they are being very unfairly slandered by cynical people who really don't know the in's and out's.

The Sovereign will have a retail price of at least £700 complete. Even if Deagostini are getting them for half that (which I strongly doubt), that is still £350. That means that each magazine is working out at £3 which is not excessive at all, especially when compared to to other magazines which charge a fiver just for the print and paper.

It seems a lot of publishing companies get away with charging extortionate prices. I mean, is Custom PC really worth £4.50 a pop? To you, yes, as you are into PC's, just like the modellers are into their ship building.

However, after 135 weeks, all you will have with Custom PC is a batch of useless magazines, particularly with the speed of PC tech. However, with the modelling partworks, you will be left with a product that, if built properly, will truly be a feature and a conversation piece in your home for many years, or if you wish, you will be able to sell to recoup and maybe even profit from. Believe me, a fully assembled Artesania Latina model commands a premium due the intricacy of it's building.

That's all I can really say, and if you still don;t get what I mean, then there's not much more I can say.

 

[robfosters]

£6 for a few pieces of Balsa wood? No thanks

Wrong again. Cheap aircraft kits are made from balsa. Premium ships models like this one are made from basswood as it can bend for planking construction.

 

[FoxEye]

I guess you could apply it to anything that is deemed a waste of money

Pretty much my thoughts.

How many play the lottery? 99.9% will spend more than they ever win back.
How many pay over the odds 2nd hand on eBay auctions (when they could buy brand new for less...)
Or people who "payday loan" companies... PPI companies...
Those stupid CD collections that are advertised after 2am on satellite...

So many ways to throw money away, chances are we've all fallen for one of them at some point. I know I have.

 

[Strife212]

Any hobby is a rip off according to OcUK

 

[Limpnoodle]

There could be something in that.
During the 80s I subscribed to Murder Casebook which was about 150 issues and then I would also need the folders to put them in.

**** me my old man used to buy them for me to read, i was born in 1981 :O
i was about 13 reading them.

anyway IN COMBAT magazine was awesome, no free crap just awesome killing machines, was really good.

edit,

That came across really badly, lol

 

[FARGO]

Treasures of The Earth is how I used to roll.

 

[mp3duck]

Years ago I started collecting the "Real Robots" model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Robots
Got issues from news agent until I subscribed, but got bored and stopped putting it together. I think I have an incomplete model and about 40 issues in the loft at home, but I eventually cancelled the subscription

Total waste of my money but it was fun making it at the time.