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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 30, 2005 12:42:07 GMT 12
I just saw an advert for a magazine series that's hitting NZ shops now where week by week you'll get parts to build a 1/8th scale Fokker Triplane. It looks really detailed and the magazine details the history.
Good timing just after Omaka would have heightened the interest in the type for many people.
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Post by Bruce on Mar 30, 2005 22:23:38 GMT 12
Yeah I saw the ad as well. These "Magazine kits" always worry me a bit though for several reasons :
1. Initial copy may be $3.95, but subsequent issues are $12.95. It wouldnt take many copies and your model is costing you well over $100.00! FlyPast and Aeroplane mags sell for that price and I'd say there is a lot more in thier content than the "Triplane builder" or whatever its called.
2. If your newsagent sells out, you miss a copy or the publisher goes broke (has been known to happen) you are left with a partly completed model.
3. If you have enough time to build it, you will probably require the next batch of parts before the next issue actually comes out, which can be frustrating.
It does look like a very nice model though - the rotary engine even rotates properly. If anyone does have a go, please keep us informed of progress.
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Post by Bruce on Apr 1, 2005 22:28:13 GMT 12
I had a look at one of these "magazines" this evening. The magazine is fairly lightweight content wise, not worth a lot. the thing that struck me was the fact that it will Take 100 Issues to complete the model . These are issued fortnightly, so that will be nearly 4 years to complete your model. at $13.00 a copy, your model will have cost $1300 to build  . the parts in the first issue are some wing ribs, one engine cylinder some minor little metal fittings and one induction pipe - not enough parts to even start one section of assembly. the parts did look quite good, but serious model builders can easily obtain plans and components for similar models for a lot less than $1300, and build much faster than 4 years. I wonder how many models will ever make it to completion? |
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Post by Craig Sargent on May 3, 2005 23:55:16 GMT 12
Why not just plonk down $800 for the reasonably readily available Hasegawa kit and be done with it, all parts there at about 3/5 of the cost.
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. These are issued fortnightly, so that will be nearly 4 years to complete your model. at $13.00 a copy, your model will have cost $1300 to build 
. the parts in the first issue are some wing ribs, one engine cylinder some minor little metal fittings and one induction pipe - not enough parts to even start one section of assembly. the parts did look quite good, but serious model builders can easily obtain plans and components for similar models for a lot less than $1300, and build much faster than 4 years. I wonder how many models will ever make it to completion?
