build a Tiger Tank £4.99 per week magazine

just advertised on tv weekly issues
parts each week to build a Tiger Tank

Tiger Tank Magazine - Build your own WWII Tiger Tank

 

Which scale is it, which material, and how much will it cost in total? I have no confidence at all in these wheel-a-week schemes

 

Tiger Tank Magazine - Build your own WWII Tiger Tank

 

Still it is not explicit in the fine print for how many weeks this is going to run, at £4.99 per week...

 

Tiger Tank Magazine - Build your own WWII Tiger Tank
Complete in only 140 issues (the only place it tells you that is if you play the advert and look very carefully). Plus you're signing up for the rest of the binders as well. But even without the binders it'll cost you £692.11. Assuming 20 issues per binder, that's another six @ £5.99 each for a grand total of £728.05 and you'll finally get to complete the model in May 2013!!!

 

and presumably you have to provide your own glue and paint!

 

this is the same problems the Germans had:

too late
too expensive

 

Complete in only 140 issues (the only place it tells you that is if you play the advert and look very carefully). Plus you're signing up for the rest of the binders as well. But even without the binders it'll cost you £692.11. Assuming 20 issues per binder, that's another six @ £5.99 each for a grand total of £728.05 and you'll finally get to complete the model in May 2013!!!

That's quite a heavy load to bear!




Tom.

 

£728.05? Hmmm, and if you went to the hobby shop how much would you pay for a chinese made 1/16th RC Tiger? £86.99!!!! And over the counter to boot! Plus £1.99 for 200 pellets to shoot the neighbour's dog! (not the cat, never!)

Tiger 1 Tank Grey

And I believe enough stupid people will make queues at the newstands to buy these! How much will end up complete?

 

Shocking.

For that money you could arrange a holiday to some of the Battlefield sites instead!

 

hot of the press

the sum of 50p first issue

 

Imagine buying every issue and they went bust 1 issue from the finish. lol.

 

Anothe just started here in Germany.
1/16 scale all etched Brass assembly of a Ju 87 Stuka.

143 issues at just under 9 euros per issue.

I cannot see many making the final episode, but the overall cost is staggering.

Regards
Tom

 

Imagine buying every issue and they went bust 1 issue from the finish. lol.
Unlikely - Hachette are rather large!

The publishers of these things work to a standard financial model based on sales of the first half dozen or so issues. Years of experience have told them what the fall-off figures will be after that and if the initial sales drop below a benchmark then they just pull the thing from sale and refund subscriptions. Cheaper in the long run than originating and printing 43 copies of the final issues.

Although there was a natural history partwork which suddenly stopped after about 75 of 120 issues!

 

A bit of a fraud, isn't it?

 

good show Tom


well Marcus at least I have now got the 88mm which I am attempting to put together

 

Completed 88mm.

 

This remind me of the Lancaster one a while back....I think it was cheaper to buy a real one instead of making the model.