these magazines in 100 issues costing £££££££?

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eg. Collect and build The Millennium Falcon. £8.99 each. 100 parts.

Or The Mary Rose or 12 thousand bits of doll house.

Adds up to £12 million or something.

Does anyone actually ever complete what they are building?

I am currently doing a seaside quilt with sew and stitch magazine you get a block a week and the magazine builds up into a stitcher's manual - with lots of "how to ...." type things with heaps of patterns and projects. I've learned loads.

IIRC you can buy back issues but you still have to buy the magazines to finish building whatever it was that you were building.

I was looking forward to the end of the series of horrible science magazines, then they extended the series! Bastards. He did read them though but I wouldn't do it again. I placed a magazine order in with WHSmiths and collected them from there.

We've always avoided those series like the plague, but have signed up for the Millennium Falcon one. DH is very into film props, it's a 1:1 scale of the prop from the film, and the detail and the quality (from him sussing it out via the first issue) appears to be really good. We'll just have to cut back on the usual tat and spend the money on that instead.

DH really fanices the Millenium Falcon

He was looking all excited until I said "It's £900 DH. Nine. Hundred. Pounds."

He still seemed a bit keen, but erm....no. No DH.

Do you have a garage large enough to fit it in though, Muddling

Even ds laughed when he worked our how much the Millenium Falcon would cost. He's a star wars fan but this takes the biscuit.

I like it when new ones come out with one off gifts. The first one is always cheaper, I buy that and no more so I can get tbe gift.

Love the ads for these but can't believe anyone collects them all.

Dh subscribed to the snorksome " organ monthly" I think it was , for a while and I always joked it should come with a pipe per issue so in 50 yrs you had a full build it yourself pipe organ - and enough time to build the extension to house it

They would cost you the same as an extension to your house, Theas

They always make shed loads of the first one and start to reduce the amount they print after the first five or so. Only the most dedicated people buy them afterwards as they have to be specially ordered and no longer available to buy otherwise. They know that these are the ones which won't stop buying them because they will be hooked on finishing the model by then.

I intend to finish my quilt - and to have learned all the stitching techniques along the way - the latter being just as important as the former.

It's great that you've learned things, NoLonger

I'd love to know how to make a non-patchwork wool blanket but I'm assuming I need a rather large knitting machine to do this

ah - crochet rather than knitting is best for a non patchwork - and simple to pick up from youtube.

like this stripey one here you can do many colours (I did) or just the one (I did this also)

sorry - this does not appear to be a standard AIBU type thread... people are being ermmmmmm nice!

Oh, thank you! My house is cold and I'm trying to find a cheaper way to buy blankets

LadySybilLikesSloeGin Mon 05-Jan-15 13:46:37

Do you have a garage large enough to fit it in though, Muddling

Now, I'd think a full scaled model is the full scale model (as in the one where you see them running up the ramp)

When DD was a baby (she is 26 now) I collected the Great Writers series. Every fortnight there was a hardback classic book and a magazine about the author and the times in which the book was written. I managed to collect the full series (about 50 books) at £4.99 a pop. They are sitting on my bookshelves as DD was not interested in them. I have read them all though .

I picked up all the Rugrats geography ones for two quid at a car boot sale. Each one is about a different country - ideal for our Round the World topic at school