Re: OT: Build the Bismark



Mike Swift said the following on 03/03/07 11:31:
In article <-7ydnZSBPvKcpnTYnZ2dnUVZ8v3inZ2d@xxxxxx>, Richard Brooks
<richardbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Just 140 episodes - starts at 50p then 4;99 after that . My god does
anyone buy all those?
I was wondering if the real thing was built in less time ?

Keel laid 1/7/36

Launched 14/2/39

Commissioned 24/8/40

Sunk 27/5/41

And it didn't cost much more than the magazine version at the end of it all! :-)

She might have been German but was a beautiful boat and my dad had a
small part in her downfall.

Mike

My favourite is Scharnhorst and I have the Airfix 1:400 version sitting in a box unmade beside my cupboard. It'd be nice but too bloody costly to build a 1:1 version of those for real but could you imagine Navy Days, sorry - Festival of the Sea with a craft like that cruising in ?


Richard.


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