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I think people deserve better service. The worst service I get when buying online has always been from people selling wargames related stuff. I find that etsy and eBay are often better, maybe due to the feedback/review system?
I have been sworn at, and threatened by one seller who tried to report me to PayPal as a scam artist, even though I had paid for the goods and was the customer. He was so nasty I blocked his IP at my email server to stop his vitriol from coming through. The various people at Paypal I dealt with to get my money back were appalled and have put him on a watch list. Too many reports and they would withdraw their service he was so nasty. Properly drained my energy dealing with him for weeks.
Mistakes happen, but owning them and putting them right quick sharp goes a long way.
Is the hobby dying, or why is the stuff I want so expensive?
The Hobby TM and or Greying TM?
Is the hobby dying, or why is the stuff I want so expensive?
The Hobby TM and or Greying TM?
Both.
See also; why don’t you take the hobby seriously/why do you take the hobby so seriously, and that lovely old standard “you don’t play toy soldiers the way I think you ought to play to soldiers (i.e. like me) and I’m going to explain why you should” {insert pic of child smoking pipe}
Fun for all the family now the nights are drawing in 🙂
Ah, here it is
Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.
And yes I too do go back to postal notes [payment] and letters to the maker back in the 70’s. Of course I could buy Airfix locally, but painting them was such a pain! cheers dave
I always found painting Airfix figures a joy to paint, learnt my painting and modelling skills on Airfix figures. All hail Airfix figures
.When I read questions like “what glue do I use to stick a plastic model together?” I always smile. Obviously a younger chap asking. 😉
A generation of gamers grew up with Airfix. I bought my first metal figures in 1971. Everything before that was Airfix, including the military vehicles. That Sherman was a bit iffy…:0
Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.
The modern generation huh! “we had a handful of hot gravel for breakfast”
when I was growing up.Oooh! Well hark at you with your “hot” gravel, Mr hoity-toity.
We had to get up six hours before we went to bed, walk thirty mile, in us bare feet, through t’snow, to work 36 hours a day in’t mill, what we ‘ad t’pay mill owner 6d a day to do, and then we’ d walk back ‘ome, eat a few crumbs of cold gravel and then our mothers and fathers would murder us in our beds. Then we’d get up next day and do it all over.
Tell young folk that nowadays and they don’t believe you!
🙂 🙂 🙂
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data
but I don’t thik anyone deserve anything. The service provided is what the business wants to provide, if I’m not happy with it I’ll simply not buy there again.
Quite a few fall short of providing the legal bare minimum for the country they operate in.
Customers at least deserve the sellers to operate legally..
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When I read questions like “what glue do I use to stick a plastic model together?” I always smile. Obviously a younger chap asking.
A generation of gamers grew up with Airfix. I bought my first metal figures in 1971. Everything before that was Airfix, including the military vehicles. That Sherman was a bit iffy…:0To which the answer is of course Banana oil…
I happily remember those ‘how to convert’ articles in Airfix Magazine & even tried a couple – Foreign Legion into ACW Zouaves & AWI British grenadiers into Napoleonic Austrians. I think there’s a couple still knocking around in the depths of the ‘junk box’.
The modern generation huh! “we had a handful of hot gravel for breakfast”
when I was growing up.Oooh! Well hark at you with your “hot” gravel, Mr hoity-toity. We had to get up six hours before we went to bed, walk thirty mile, in us bare feet, through t’snow, to work 36 hours a day in’t mill, what we ‘ad t’pay mill owner 6d a day to do, and then we’ d walk back ‘ome, eat a few crumbs of cold gravel and then our mothers and fathers would murder us in our beds. Then we’d get up next day and do it all over. Tell young folk that nowadays and they don’t believe you!
Brilliant😀
Yes, I was being flippant about the wonkiness
– I’d never considered trying to glue models with banana oil.Airfix’s relaxed attitude to prototype representation didn’t bother me when I started making them.
More worrying was the collection of a perfect set of fingerprints on most models courtesy of overenthusiastic squeezing of said ‘toothpaste’ tube of cement.
By the time I realised the problems (and I’ve read loads of fascinating excuses why – Bovington examples that had settled on their suspension was a good one) I was switching to 1/300 and many Airfix had bitten the dust as air rifle targets Mk1.
BTW, the Sherman was just iffy. One of those ‘it’s Sherman-like so it’ll do’ models that Airfix were wont to produce – see also their Tiger and Panther, or…just about any military vehicle they punted out.
Apparently they measured up bits of various Shermans, not realising that there were different versions, which explains that and a lot of the other Frankentanks that they produced. Their later kits eg the Crusader were much more accurate. Did Airfix listen to their customers?
FWIW I never used banana oil either, just the ordinary model glue. There was one brand of those which did have a strong ‘orangy’ smell, which was a bit offputting.
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