Look at this con..

[tommy.irene]

I buy a magazine and in it is a build your own UBoat for £7.99.. the point is you have to buy 150 issues to complete  it.. That comes too £1200.

[evoman3957]

£1200 is not a bad price for a UBoat, you might find it difficult to sail it on your own though and a crew could be quite expensive. I gather the mooring fees at Chichester aren't bad, although I don't think they've got too many Subs in the Yacht basin.

[tommy.irene]

It a pity it only 20"long and dosent float..

[bankhaunter]

And if they stop publishing the magazine halfway through, you are sunk.

[evoman3957]

One of those midget subs then and floating is not that important, considering they spend most of their life under the water anyway.

[mustard-tree]

And the Mallard train needing 130 issues to finish

The first issues are only 99p though

Bet the publishers are miffed that they have to state the subsequent prices in their adverts

[cee-dee]

The adverts I saw said the first issue was 50p and it was "usually" £5.99.

[mustard-tree]

Sorry CD you are right.

50p for first issue on both, and £7.99 for the UBoat and £5.99 for the Mallard afterwards

[cee-dee]

The advert says £5.99 for the U-boat usual price:-

http://www.uboat-collection.com/

[wskneil]

Have you also noticed that with the mallard " paint track and gearbox are extra" That's extra to the £1200 it will cost you

Though if you wanted to buy one ready built it would cost you a lot more!

http://goldenagemodels.net/LNER-Locomotives-A4-Class-O-Gauge.html

£2950!!!!!

[mr-expresso]

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@wskneil wrote:

Have you also noticed that with the mallard " paint track and gearbox are extra" That's extra to the £1200 it will cost you

Though if you wanted to buy one ready built it would cost you a lot more!

http://goldenagemodels.net/LNER-Locomotives-A4-Class-O-Gauge.html

£2950!!!!!

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Don't be so negative......  You fail to point out that it includes VAT and Postage.....

[blackburn_stevie]

That sub model is a a bitter  blow to anybody who lost friends and famiily to the U-boats during the war. I wonder if German magazines have commemrative Spitfire and Wellington bomber issues?

[tommy.irene]

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@blackburn_stevie wrote:

That sub model is a a bitter  blow to anybody who lost friends and famiily to the U-boats during the war. I wonder if German magazines have commemrative Spitfire and Wellington bomber issues?

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Now ..now ..Stevie.. the War is over.. but i like were your coming from..

[bankhaunter]

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@blackburn_stevie wrote:

That sub model is a a bitter  blow to anybody who lost friends and famiily to the U-boats during the war. I wonder if German magazines have commemrative Spitfire and Wellington bomber issues?

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It costs a lot of money to produce kits so the manufacturers are only going to supply ones which are likely to be popular, most people know about German subs for obvious reasons.

[cee-dee]

I don't suppose most people know that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Was "blamed" for giving Germany the idea of blockading Britain with submarines in his story "Danger! Being the log of Captain John Sirius" ?

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@blackburn_stevie wrote:

That sub model is a a bitter  blow to anybody who lost friends and famiily to the U-boats during the war. I wonder if German magazines have commemrative Spitfire and Wellington bomber issues?

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I don't know about magazines but Revell GmbH certainly sell allied WW2 aircraft models.

http://www.revell.de/en/products/model-building/aircraft/world-war-ii.html

[pillarboxred]

Publishers have been doing this for more than a hundred years. It is entertainment and if a teenager follows every issue, he will have been off the streets for a long time and you could easily spend that on other pastimes in 150 weeks.