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cspg
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posted 09-18-2018 04:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From DeAgostini Publishing:
Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with this amazing model of the Apollo 11 lunar module.

Madon_space
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posted 09-18-2018 04:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Madon_space   Click Here to Email Madon_space     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This looks like a nice subscription but if you look at the final build there doesn't appear to be a commander. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 09-18-2018 04:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It is intended to be Apollo 11; red commander stripes were not introduced until Apollo 13 (and not seen until Apollo 14).

apolloprojeckt
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posted 09-18-2018 05:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apolloprojeckt   Click Here to Email apolloprojeckt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Parts design use from Vincent Meens, not so fair this.

keith.wilson
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posted 09-18-2018 09:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for keith.wilson     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Total price comes to £708.20 - 80 issues in the collection. I think I’ll pass on this one.

Retro Rocket
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posted 09-18-2018 12:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Retro Rocket   Click Here to Email Retro Rocket     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
is there an interior? In my opinion, not even contacting Vincent was bad form.

Guswastheman
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posted 09-18-2018 12:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Guswastheman   Click Here to Email Guswastheman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't know anything about the person/persons or company that is offering this LM model, however I have known Vincent Meens for about six years, through emails asking for advice on building his LM and LRV models, in which Vincent has always been very supportive with tons of help and always encouraging me without any type of personal gain. He has scaled pieces up and down per request without hesitation, regardless of his own schedule.

Vincent has shared with the rest of us, most like myself, the opportunity to add a museum quality model to our collections that otherwise would not be possible. With that being said, when Vincent states he believes that, at least some of this model's parts are directly from his research and CAD work then I think we should boycott this rip-off.

cspg
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posted 09-19-2018 10:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by keith.wilson:
Total price comes to £708.20 - 80 issues in the collection. I think I’ll pass on this one.

Not only that but there's no guarantee that all the issues will be made available — if demand is too low, production ends.

apolloprojeckt
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posted 09-19-2018 10:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apolloprojeckt   Click Here to Email apolloprojeckt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh when come they with this message?

Jonjonzilla
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posted 09-25-2018 12:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jonjonzilla   Click Here to Email Jonjonzilla     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The De-Ag range has had some serious hits and misses. Most popular lately was the Millennium Falcon which was worth it...eventually.

I mean eventually as the first time they tried to publish the Millennium Falcon series, the run was cancelled because of lack of interest. It was re-released and seems to have worked this time (better advertising by De-Ag?) and the after market details add a genuine masterpiece level to the kit.

The Apollo LM might not generate that level of interest and at that cost and issue length (and the questionable source of kit parts) I would not be interested in it. As above, you also run risk of the publisher abandoning the series at some point.

Eventually the part count goes down significantly and you might get a single LM foot pad in an issue... for £9? That happened at the end of the Millennium Falcon run, A single foot pad was supplied in the issue.

A giant scale (1/12th) might be worth that cost but...

1202 Alarm
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posted 02-07-2019 04:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 1202 Alarm   Click Here to Email 1202 Alarm     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Taken from the forum.model-space.co.uk:
I finally received today issue 5 from the test subscription, together with a letter saying that issues 1-4 were out of stock and this is the end of the test run. November 27, 2018. Since then, nothing.

cspg
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posted 02-07-2019 04:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A test run was made by DeAgostini for a collection of rockets. Test was done in Russia and France about 18 months ago. Final product never hit the stands as of today. You can see the images of the collection from the French Conquest of Space Forum here.

mode1charlie
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posted 02-07-2019 04:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mode1charlie   Click Here to Email mode1charlie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have their Vostok from this series (purchased from eBay). It's not bad for what it is.

Davestory
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posted 02-09-2019 05:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Davestory   Click Here to Email Davestory     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I subscribed in September, was told in 14 days I would start to get my subscription. One month late, after three phone calls and several emails, still nothing. I canceled.

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