Build a Spitfire Ad

[Halmyre]

I know these things come round every year and cost a packet but this one seems to be the worst yet. 120 issues at £9.99 a throw!

https://www.spitfiremodel.com/

[PositronicRay]

Halmyre said:

I know these things come round every year and cost a packet but this one seems to be the worst yet. 120 issues at £9.99 a throw!

https://www.spitfiremodel.com/

The last 20 issues (aircrew) look interesting.

[anonymous-user]

PositronicRay said:

Halmyre said:

I know these things come round every year and cost a packet but this one seems to be the worst yet. 120 issues at £9.99 a throw!

https://www.spitfiremodel.com/

The last 20 issues (aircrew) look interesting.

Assuming they are selling enough copies by that point to keep the series going. Don't these things have a history of being canned once the sales fall off leaving lots of people annoyed because they cannot finish their model.

[FourWheelDrift]

This new one is smaller (1:18 scale) and more expensive than the old DeAgostini one which was a larger 1:12 scale model and you could make an all in one purchase of £799 or do it in monthly subscriptions.

Full kit (out of stock though) - https://www.model-space.com/gb/build-the-spitfire-...

[Cheeses of Nazareth]

Who buys these.. who has ever bought them?

If you like models , surely you buy one and do it, and if you like books/ magazines you buy one and read it.

There is nothing in that magazine that isn't already in the public domain .

Like online bingo , I am at a loss to think who gets sucked in by this garbage.

[chris watton]

I have designed and developed quite a few of these part work models (not Model Space). A lot of development time and money is invested in some, but I always hated them, preferred to develop complete kits, as half the time, the developments were canned half way through when sales dropped. The model can not then be developed as a kit in its own right due to contractual issues, which was a shame.

[gazzarose]

Years ago when I was about 13/14 (bit worrying that was now 20 years ago!), my gran started buying me one of these type magazines. This particular one was to build a robot that would drive arounf a room. I think I had about half a dozen, but we lost interest when we realised it would take something like 18 months and would have cost hundreds. I googled it years later, and as far as I could tell no one ever finished one!

[FourWheelDrift]

It seems there are a few complete build editions already built or parts for sale of different builds on Ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=deagostini...

[ukaskew]

Joey Deacon said:

Assuming they are selling enough copies by that point to keep the series going. Don't these things have a history of being canned once the sales fall off leaving lots of people annoyed because they cannot finish their model.

Isn't that a bit of a myth? Surely these things would have been shamed out of existence by now if that happened regularly?

What I've never understood is the fun of it, there seems to be about 10 minutes of work per week (if that), it would be like receiving a couple of Lego bricks in the post every week to build a 500 piece set.