Those models built up in weekly parts, strapped to magazines….WHY?

I see James Bond’s Aston Martin is the latest. Part one only £1.99. Usual price £4.99 and completes in 80 weeks…mmmmm…let me see…where’s the calculator…..£400 for a model completed in a year and a half! Does any one buy these. What I can’t work our is if they honour the publishing of these for the entire duration. If that was the case, with all that are released, WHSmith should have aisles and aisles of these kits, all in varying stages of completion.
I just don’t get them!

Haha, check out Peter Serafinowic on youtube

“Elephants and Trains” Magazine: part one comes with the first piece of this terrifying model!

the company only ever make the first 20 issues anyway

‘cos you get part 2 free with part 1 and you get a plastic binder to keep them in.

And legaly you can get all your money back if the mag dont run till the end,in reality who knows

rockhopper the mag for james bond car is 6.99 after the minimal 1.99 first issue.totals nearly 600 quid.even worse than you thought.

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fast forward 80 weeks car almost finished now where did i put the parts i got in the first issue a year and a half ago!

“2′ long long and weighing 20lbs!” made me laugh….

The 007 Aston is pretty big, and weighs nearly 20lb when finished, but that’s still chuffin’ expensive, large die-cast models do cost a lot of money, but not that much, I’m sure. Just think of buying it on hire purchase.

if this isn’t worth 600 pounds i don’t know what is! LOL…

that’s if they publish to that completion…I bet the chassis is the last part!

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I want part 1, the Manchurian Scorpion!

Course, you do get a magazine as well.

We used to get a partwork, I think it was called mediquest, back when I was a kid… It was the ultimate hypochondriac’s manual, every month it arrived with a new exciting condition to develop.

There was a mag doing the flying scctsman locomotive in monthly parts and my O gauge guild mag had an article about the loco and a finished picture and the article regarding the cost, quality of parts, concluded that it was a good representation of the real thing and pretty good value

Not done one, but the usual plan (at least here in Spain) is to get the first issue or two from the normal vendor, then buy or subscribe to the rest directly from the publisher.

There’s a Tiger tank one being advertised on tv at the moment here, love to build that one. Expensive, though!

Its easy to profit from stupidity.

I thought the bet one was the Nitro r/c car last year. It took 18 months to build, cost about £550 and you probably had no chance of getting spares once you’d built it.

Or you could just take £250 to a model shop & walk out with (probably) a better car for a heap less cash and not have to wait 18 months to fire it up!!

doesnt look like its got the roof for an ejector seat though… 🙄

Usual price £4.99

£6.99 actually. My boy comes running up to me “Blah blah James Bond car blah blah advert. Can I ? Can I?”

That’s the point.

(he got a slap)

you could buy a car for that

HoratioHufnagel – That mechanic must be a giant.

That mechanic must be a giant.

His cuffs were built for someone with bigger wrists and hands anyway.

You could get a web site designed and built and free marketing lessons for that.

Only if you want to fund Al Qaeda tho’ DS, captaincrash taught us that truth.

you could buy a car for that

‘s a very good point; I can and have bought real cars for less that that, on more than one occasion.