So Why is This Sick ???

Import tariffs or not,  it's way more enticing than Trumpy Bear.

It appears on the actual Meng web page.  No price or release? 

May I now refer back to a possible prediction made earlier?

"All I will say is that we will need to get used to more of this rhetoric from the media.  I continue to brush it off until the point that protesters start picketing model shows."  

     Maybe Meng thinks it'll be like IHOP's tv Ad from several months ago. They called themselves International House of Burgers  What an Ad. It got my attention and my Wife's interest.  So, It worked!

So, maybe a Dio with an IHOP Building instead of the Church?

    Nino (With Tounge firmly in Cheek)

One wonders if it will be exempt from import tariffs...

Wirraway

Oh Nino, didja have to go "there" ? Read the guidelines about politics in the forums. In before the lock !

 

How is that political? Look at the kit box cover? It’s a Christmas edition kit. *eye roll* Geez....

Something of interest on the same lines as the current topic.

  A new model from MENG.  It's for Chrismas. 

http://www.meng-model.com/new.php?id=823

Well;"G" ;

  I m glad you haven't been one of those poor folks . Of course you could give us a good scratchbuilt Saucer , With , Full Interior afterwards LOL.LOL 

Scottrc;

 Don't get me started . I wrote sometime back about having a model banned in a show !

Oh !

That means that the story about the Volkswagen giving Birth to twin Porsches is false then ?  LOL.LOL

It’s funny you mention that.... The closer I get to retirement, the less my filter works. I can say stuff to the brass, direct and with all due respect to the rank of the brass, but needing to be said, that less experienced guys can not, and get no ill results.

It's a supermarket tabloid, not "the media". This was a joke story. It's like getting all knotted up because the NE ran a story saying that someone was abducted by space aliens and that the "government" is hiding the evidence.

All I will say is that we will need to get used to more of this rhetoric from the media.  I continue to brush it off until the point that protesters start picketing model shows.  

Bish

O, they would not be worried about ruins in the Mid east or Africa, but somthing in dear old blighty would deffinetly cause tremours.

Notice in the orignal article that its not Afghans they are worried about upsetting, you know, the ones who might have lived in such a building. Its British veterens they seem concerned about. Because as we know, British vets are such delicate flowers and are very very senstive and need people like the Mail to be offeneded on their behalf.

 

I would switch my sarcasim off, but after 48 years, i still can't find the damn button.

 

stikpusher

Bish, there are things that trigger overseas service memories for me, those deep ones, but it sure isn’t models...

 

Me neither, if it was, i would be a quivering wreck by now.

Bish, there are things that trigger overseas service memories for me, those deep ones, but it sure isn’t models...

O, they would not be worried about ruins in the Mid east or Africa, but somthing in dear old blighty would deffinetly cause tremours.

Notice in the orignal article that its not Afghans they are worried about upsetting, you know, the ones who might have lived in such a building. Its British veterens they seem concerned about. Because as we know, British vets are such delicate flowers and are very very senstive and need people like the Mail to be offeneded on their behalf.

I would switch my sarcasim off, but after 48 years, i still can't find the damn button.

Bish, perhaps one of your countrymen could send them a Miniart catalog and give the whole staff a collective massive heart attack... ruins all across Europe, the mid East, and North Africa!!! 

stikpusher

Perhaps this one is more acceptable to the author? It is both Western and Religious.

 

 

Sarcasm off...

 

Acctualy, if someone at the mail saw that, they would go into shock.

Perhaps this one is more acceptable to the author? It is both Western and Religious.

Sarcasm off...

TB do you realize that the Daily Mail is not a real exercise in journalism. It's like the ones in the checkout line at the Piggly. It's a total joke of a newspaper.

"Woman becomes pregnant in the mouth after eating baby squid". That kind of thing.

That I don't mind .

  Having no CENTS is worse LOL.LOL. Ya know Steve  , this kind of stuff just torques my temper . Why even have history at all ? Okay , you woke up this morning , Guess what you were born anew so any past experience or memory DOES NOT Apply. 

 It seems to me that is what these idjits are tryin ta do . I ain't havin none of it !  T.B.

careful TB , you'll be getting accused of having common sense next mate ,

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O H , gimme a break !!!

  What about all the Nazi ( German ) plane models they make . Many types bombed the hell out of London . Idjits is what I call um ! 

 Now we are getting blowover on P.C. from the U.K. Gees Louise !   T.B.

hypertex

This thread got my thinking, has then ever been a kit of a bombed out London house? Like one would have found during the Blitz? Not that I want to build one, I'm just wondering if reactions would be different.

What if someone released a kit of the wreckage of the WTC? That would upset me.

By the way, I loved the Daily Mail Song, thanks for that!

 

I thinjk the difference there is you are talking about a specific event, you can put names and faces to it.

I don't think there would be any issues with a London house, any more than any of the houses that are on the market, French, German, Italian etc.

And you ask if anyone has done a bombed out London house. Field of Glory has this.

https://www.fieldsofglorymodels.co.uk/product/135-scale-large-ww2-bombed-terrace-street-diorama-kit/

This thread got my thinking, has then ever been a kit of a bombed out London house? Like one would have found during the Blitz? Not that I want to build one, I'm just wondering if reactions would be different.

What if someone released a kit of the wreckage of the WTC? That would upset me.

By the way, I loved the Daily Mail Song, thanks for that!

modelcrazy

 

 

Greg

Urban slang seems to have taken precedence over our language as I knew it. I actually thought this is what this topic might be about!

 

 

Yeah, me too LOL. I thought Tojo was asking "why is this so cool?"

 

Me too! 

modelcrazy

Yeah, me too LOL. I thought Tojo was asking "why is this so cool?"

Exactly, Steve.

Greg

Urban slang seems to have taken precedence over our language as I knew it. I actually thought this is what this topic might be about!

Yeah, me too LOL. I thought Tojo was asking "why is this so cool?"

It’s not a toy, it’s a model kit  for a diorama for Christ sake! 

Bish

Because this is the UK old boy, we have to be offended over somthing or our day is not complete.

That is funny!

One thing comes to mind is the general public sees no difference between a toy and a scale model. If you're reading this, you already know the difference. A toy is, well, a toy. A scale model is something we put lots of work into to try to recreate something.

Were this Airfix kit marketed as a child's toy, well, wait a minute........I still wouldn't be offended. So much for that line of thinking then.

Edit: and btw, this article title wouldn't work in the US, because 'sick' doesn't mean sick anymore. Due to to further and sadly rapid decline of the beautiful English language by us (thank you very much ).......I think 'sick' now means 'very cool', or something like that. I don't really bother to try to keep up anymore.

Urban slang seems to have taken precedence over our language as I knew it. I actually thought this is what this topic might be about!