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[Vaughan]

Hi all,

Just joined and not read all the back messages yet so excuse me if I'm repeating anything already posted. I have been building models for quite a while now - not especially well, I think I just do it coz I'm hooked on glue! the first model I remember getting was the then new Airfix HMS Cossack at around the age of six. I made a hash of it of course but damn! model building is as addictive as heroin! Just one experience and its next stop, rehab!

All these years I have been the classic kit-kid i.e. I get a buzz buying the model, a great sense of achievement once its built but then I lose interest. In the good old days that meant the model usually got shot to bits with and air pistol or crashed and burned in the most literal of senses! From time to time - usually around 5th of Novemeber - the model would get blown up (remember those days? when a ten-year-old could blow things up and risked burned fingers and a tanned behind unlike today when he would have armed men dressed in black pouncing on him in the back garden!)

Just once however I wanted to build a masterpiece; something my great-grandchildren would get to see in museum someday. Well, I decided the Lanc would be it. I knew it would be expensive (£600+ I must be INSANE!), and I knew that gradually the number of parts would diminish as the series went on so that Hachette could milk the deal. At first I thought I was truly getting suckered but then I realised that each part usually represented around two hours work and hey, two hours a week is a reasonable amount of work. I couldn't therefor really belly-ache about the parts but I am beginning to feel short-changed with the 'magazine'. The 'Step by Step' is good, couldn't ask for better but the information parts have dwindled to just two pages. At this rate it will be another two hundred parts before I come close to filling the three binders I have already been sent. I hope Hachette aren't planning to send any more without dramatically increasing the info pages - that really would be taking the...........!

Got a bit carried away there huh? good to be here regards all.

[Mark]

Hi Vaughan,

Welcome to the forum. That modelling history sounds familiar. Although my model aircraft usually got hung from the ceiling by a piece of thread !

I know what you mean about some issues being slim, but in the grand scheme of things you end up with a completed Lanc, and I think it's going to be a very good model. GOt any photos of your work so far ?

PS. I've moved this to the Introductions section where it sits better.

[COENIE]

Welcome Vaughan.

Like the rehab part. Rehab is for those that wants to stop - me NO REHAB.