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 From:  graphitone  
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)     
40224.21 In reply to 40224.20 
Same here, I commandeered my Dad's shed as a child with a train set - lucky he was into it too.

I fear they're losing ground to the digital alternatives, when you're up against the likes of this, suddenly playing with models loses all appeal. :|
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 From:  Manthorp  
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)     
40224.22 In reply to 40224.20 
I just figure that the hobby market - model trains not least -are declining fast, and being maintained by an ageing customer base.  I wouldn't want to see them go either.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  graphitone     
40224.23 In reply to 40224.21 
quote: graphitone
I fear they're losing ground to the digital alternatives, when you're up against the likes of this, suddenly playing with models loses all appeal. :|

Perhaps I need to play it, but I just don't understand how a virtual model could come close to the real life model.

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  graphitone     
40224.24 In reply to 40224.21 
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnAMDg7IVWs
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  Manthorp     
40224.25 In reply to 40224.22 
You're probably right, but it was actually my daughters (in particular 5 year old Emily, our Thomas obsessive) that got me back into it.

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 From:  johngti_mk-ii  
 To:  graphitone     
40224.26 In reply to 40224.21 
I think kids like having something tangible, hence the popularity of proper Lego still. Virtual things lack something.

Add THE VETOES to your myspace friends!!! Pretty please :D

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  johngti_mk-ii     
40224.27 In reply to 40224.26 
I still prefer real board games. :{)

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 From:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)  
 To:  Manthorp     
40224.28 In reply to 40224.22 
One interesting thing is that Airfix (owned by Hornby) seem to be doing well, at least as far as releasing new kits goes. My interest in building plastic kits was recently rekindled after about 15 years when Gaynor got me a Battlestar Galactica Viper a couple of Christmasses ago. While I'm not building them at the rate my teenage self did, I've done a few others since then, and found that somewhat inevitably there are vibrant, informative and irredeemably geeky online communities devoted to the subject. The general concensus is that most of the new kits that Airfix are releasing are very good indeed, and are competing well against the far east alternatives, not least because exchange rates mean that the prices of the big Japanese brands are getting ridiculous.

I'm not sure if The Kids are buying them, but there seem to be plenty of middle-aged men with disposable income enough to buy multiple copies of the kits that interest them, and the time and inclination to spend hours arguing on the internet about the exact shade of sky blue used on the underside of Spitfires on July 17th, 1940.

Kenny
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)     
40224.29 In reply to 40224.28 
I think I'd find building airfix kits kinda therapeutic. But I wouldn't know what to do with them once they were built.
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 From:  patch  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
40224.30 In reply to 40224.29 
Delete them.
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 From:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
40224.31 In reply to 40224.29 
I can't decide whether suggesting just destroying them once you've built them would be sensible advice or not.

Kenny
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)     
40224.32 In reply to 40224.31 
Seems a waste :(
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  patch     
40224.33 In reply to 40224.30 
(giggle)
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 From:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
40224.34 In reply to 40224.32 
It is a waste, on the other hand, you don't end up having a shelf-load of dusty plastic things slowly getting bits knocked off them. When I was making models first time round, the shelves of models were a constant reminder that I should have been using my time to do more interesting things, so I kind of resented them. 

This time round, I've got plenty of other interesting things to be doing, so I don't feel resentful.

Maybe there's some sort of compromise to be had where the shelf is actually a very slow-moving conveyor belt which takes a year to roll something from one end to the other, and there's a bin at the end of it.

Kenny
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)     
40224.35 In reply to 40224.34 
That would be perfect :D
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)     
40224.36 In reply to 40224.34 
That would be about right, I think.

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 From:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)  
 To:  koswix      
40224.37 In reply to 40224.19 
I googled that and I still can't find its' meaning...

PYFITG

I'm guessing;

Photogenic youth fiddles in the garden.

I don't see how a musical teenager is relevant to the conversation.

There might be a few more polar bears wandering about the place if more people wanted them for breakfast
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 From:  graphitone  
 To:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)     
40224.38 In reply to 40224.37 
(pyfitg)
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 From:  koswix   
 To:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)     
40224.39 In reply to 40224.37 
What graphitone said.

 

 

 

                                                
                                                
                                                
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 From:  Queeg 500 (JESUSONEEZ)  
 To:  koswix      
40224.40 In reply to 40224.39 
Yet still non the wiser...

:-((

There might be a few more polar bears wandering about the place if more people wanted them for breakfast
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