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major_clanger) wrote2013-08-21 08:59 pm
major_clanger) wrote2013-08-21 08:59 pm
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In which I demonstrate some measure of self-control
On the way back from New Street Station I walked past the Ian Allen Book & Model Shop, and as I often door had a peer at what was in the window; IA stock a good range of aviation/militaria specialist books, and the odd interesting model kit.
And there was a Saturn V kit, but not one I'd seen before. It wasn't the good old Airfix 1:144 kit, recently re-released, nor was it the Revell 1:96 giant. I peered more closely, and noticed that the kit was by an outfit called Dragon, and that the box was big. Really big. Then I saw.
1:72
So, twice the size in every dimension of the Airfix Saturn V I used to have. The complete kit would be over 5' tall.
It was also £137.
I don't have time. I don't really have space (we have a big flat, but even so). And that's a lot of money.
Fortunately, my bout of it-must-be-mine! syndrome was dampened by this review, which notes that for a large-scale kit, where the point is surely additional detail and accuracy, the Dragon kit is actually not just poorly-detailed but flat-out wrong in several places. Oh well, I'll just have to get around to building the 1:48 TSR-2 kit I've had for about three years...
And there was a Saturn V kit, but not one I'd seen before. It wasn't the good old Airfix 1:144 kit, recently re-released, nor was it the Revell 1:96 giant. I peered more closely, and noticed that the kit was by an outfit called Dragon, and that the box was big. Really big. Then I saw.
1:72
So, twice the size in every dimension of the Airfix Saturn V I used to have. The complete kit would be over 5' tall.
It was also £137.
I don't have time. I don't really have space (we have a big flat, but even so). And that's a lot of money.
Fortunately, my bout of it-must-be-mine! syndrome was dampened by this review, which notes that for a large-scale kit, where the point is surely additional detail and accuracy, the Dragon kit is actually not just poorly-detailed but flat-out wrong in several places. Oh well, I'll just have to get around to building the 1:48 TSR-2 kit I've had for about three years...