Buy The Bismark!

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Yes, I do get some Sky channels out here and I notice on one, there is currently a well plugged advert for a new magazine which, when purchased, comes with "laser cut" bits of wood which if you buy all the issues will leave you with a replica of the Bismark.

Sounds really good to me. Apparently, all you have to do is buy 140 issues to complete the boat and at only GBP 4.99 per issue this sounds like a real bargain. And hey! The first issue is only 50 pence! I'm so excited but just hope that when it's finished, it doesn't sink!
 
Crikey. I noticed the 50p price and thought 50p times 140 made it an expensive model but 139 x £4.99 + 50p is a real rip off. The original couldn't have cost much more!
 
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Crikey,but 139 x £4.99 + 50p is a real rip off. The original couldn't have cost much more!

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Yep, nearly 700 quid Vic. When looking at that advert I thought to myself you could get a 17 to 19 foot bilge keeler which only needs a bit of TLC for around the same price! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
Some of these part-work magazines use parts that are from kits you can buy complete, typically for about one tenth of the cost via week by week installments. Sometimes they are crafty and it is a kit that is not currently available, but if any forumites in Germany care to look in a good toy or model shop they may well find the complete Bismark kit for sale. They may even be available in this country. I cannot remember the makers name but there are some very good German wooden model boat kits.
 
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Crikey,but 139 x £4.99 + 50p is a real rip off. The original couldn't have cost much more!

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Yep, nearly 700 quid Vic. When looking at that advert I thought to myself you could get a 17 to 19 foot bilge keeler which only needs a bit of TLC for around the same price! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

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You could do even better if you were lucky! I know a man who was........ /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Ebay
 
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Crikey,but 139 x £4.99 + 50p is a real rip off. The original couldn't have cost much more!

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Yep, nearly 700 quid Vic. When looking at that advert I thought to myself you could get a 17 to 19 foot bilge keeler which only needs a bit of TLC for around the same price! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

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You could do even better if you were lucky! I know a man who was........ /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Ebay

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Stop showing off!! ya bleedin' old Wazzock!!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Amazin' innit?? If I, as I have, post summat about Seagull Outboards being noisy, outdated, polluting, vibrating, best used for a mooring weight, etc.

They all come pouring out of the woodwork to tell you all the rose coloured anectdotes about how wonderful they are, about "Lifetime Carbon Footprints"......and how they are British engineering at it's best??? (no wonder the Japs sliced up our motorctcle industry).......

Ask these same people to put there wallets where their collective gobs are, and they vanish, as if smoke on the wind!

I mean, 150 sovs aint much for a superb bit of fine British engineering is it??? Especially an example as clean and nice as that one.

Think I will give it to the Sea Scouts, or use it for a mooring weight! You mark my words, some bugger will pop up and tell us a story about how his Uncle Albert dug one up out of the Blackwater mud, gave it a couple of squirts of WD 40, gave it a pull, and shiver me timbers, off it bleedin' well went, second pull an' all!...... Never even put any fresh petol in it!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
.................a story about how his Uncle Albert dug one up out of the Blackwater mud, gave it a couple of squirts of WD 40, gave it a pull, and shiver me timbers, off it bleedin' well went, second pull an' all!...... Went on to win the Universe power boat championships that year, and only used a gallon of petrol for the whole season. Would have gone quicker but the plug got a bit oily so I had to put shreded wheat in the tank to clear it. Sorry, got carried away there - I want a Seagull but am looking for a very cheap one, probably to rebuild, more as a project than a viable engine. The British bike industry died because they didn't react to the Japanese invasion. In 1968 I had a BSA Bushman, most of my pals had Bantams and one of the lads got a Honda CB175. Oh that's a pile of sh1te we all said! Until we had a ride on it. More power, more comfortable, more reliable yada yada yada. A mate of mine had a BSA 650 with a sidecar when Kawaskai brought out their infamous 500 triple. His comment 'Mine's faster coz it's a 650 and that's only a 500'.
Sorry, my longest post resulting from too much vodka on a Sunday afternoon!
 
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Sorry, my longest post resulting from too much vodka on a Sunday afternoon!

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Can't fault you Pete! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
complete Rip off. The same company appeared on Watchdog recently after a young lad spent a small fortune buying a radio controlled car in weekly installments.

when the final bit arrived the car didnt work.He requested all his money back ,they said it was his fault,he got an electronics engineer to write a report saying it was assembled correctly.

Lad eventually got his money back but probably only due to the bad publicity on Watchdog.

Smiffy why dont you strip down the Seagull and sell it in weekly installments? First issue at 50p could have carb float and needle followed by 100 installments at £4.99.

The final weeks installment could be the toolkit.Large hammer and a box spanner. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Talking of Smiffy ,spotted this one out on cardiff Bay this aftwernoon. [image]
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/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif......Great idea!! thanks for the pic, will have to see if I can't dig up who that one belongs to?? Mine is a Nomad, same hull, different top moulding. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
[quote The British bike industry died because they didn't react to the Japanese invasion. In 1968 I had a BSA Bushman, most of my pals had Bantams and one of the lads got a Honda CB175. Oh that's a pile of sh1te we all said! Until we had a ride on it. More power, more comfortable, more reliable yada yada yada. A mate of mine had a BSA 650 with a sidecar when Kawaskai brought out their infamous 500 triple. His comment 'Mine's faster coz it's a 650 and that's only a 500'.
Sorry, my longest post resulting from too much vodka on a Sunday afternoon!

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Isn't that the exact point I was making??? substitute outboard motor for bike....same story?

All because we are British you know, and we know best......

Yeah, right /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
re the W 22 she is called Cadiha,i dont know the owner though. looks to be in really good shape.
 
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Some of these part-work magazines use parts that are from kits you can buy complete, typically for about one tenth of the cost via week by week installments. Sometimes they are crafty and it is a kit that is not currently available, but if any forumites in Germany care to look in a good toy or model shop they may well find the complete Bismark kit for sale. They may even be available in this country. I cannot remember the makers name but there are some very good German wooden model boat kits.

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How about this one then?
 
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