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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Red Orc on March 02, 2010, 11:35:27 AM
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My girlfriend recently picked up this mad book from a charity shop, purporting to be exceprts from the scrapbook of Aloysius Copprthwaite (it's a daft 1980s mock-homage job really) ... it's full of crazy Victorianesque madness, such as the Stonehenge National Early Warning Defence System, and the Brighton Pier Cross-Channel Dirigiplane Terminal... it's absolutely wonderful and if anyone sees it, I recommend they get it. Genuine craziness with beautiful illustrations.
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I'm sorry, my scanner is on the frizz at the moment... I'll do what I can, when I can, but I'm afraid unless someone can find a net example, this thread is going to be remarkably short of illustrations :(
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Here is what i found on the web :
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E4Ft17VDj8s/Swp_jibHc7I/AAAAAAAACro/MU9aZ9oah0c/s1600/Nov+2009+096.jpg)
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:D
Yup, that's the one!
It's not all like that, some of it's much sillier...
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The real question is what mini would be best for Professor AJ Copperthwaite, and what kind of expeditions will he (or she...?) end up on?
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That is corking!
I must look out for that book! ;D
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Looks like some interesting source material.
I will keep a look out it.
PM
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Looks like some interesting source material.
I will keep a look out it.
PM
Yeah snap finding it could be fun..
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They have some copies on Abe Books for about a fiver, including postage.
Available in the US too.
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?bt.x=0&bt.y=0&sts=t&tn=The+Secret+Scrapbooks+of+Professor+A.J.Copperthwaite
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They have some copies on Abe Books for about a fiver, including postage.
Available in the US too.
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?bt.x=0&bt.y=0&sts=t&tn=The+Secret+Scrapbooks+of+Professor+A.J.Copperthwaite
Chap if this place had a Karma system i'd give you +10 for that find :D
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Ace!
This would be a great resource for Flintloque! ;)
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Well just ordered myself a copy i shall be looking forward to a good read.
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There were copies on amazon the other day whenI looked too.
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used copies on amazon uk for £0.01
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I might have to look at Amazon then as they say they don't have that book. Though that listing is still valid on the site..
I hate it when companies do that. I mean its not hard to keep electronic data upto date.
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You'd think, wouldn't you?
"12 copies available... oh, good, I'll buy it then... Sorry this item was not found..."
It makes me mad, it really does. Don't tell me there are copies if you haven't got them! If you've got one, sell me it!
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You'd think, wouldn't you?
"12 copies available... oh, good, I'll buy it then... Sorry this item was not found..."
It makes me mad, it really does. Don't tell me there are copies if you haven't got them! If you've got one, sell me it!
Yeah i tend to never reply to emails when stuff is cancelled i leave it let it lie but i did have to respond to them and say but if you don't have it why are you listing it??
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I think they do it to drag in customers, thinking that some might buy something else...
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Lupus just bought it off an Amazon seller yesterday just ordered a used copy for 1p plus the £2.75 p+p and got the "order dispatched" e-mail few hours later. The main bugs to me are again the lack of updates to stock availabilty with the seller somtimes canceling the order & the £2.75 appailed to every book order as a seperate item regardless of the number of books you order from the seller -does it really cost £2.75 to post a post within the UK?
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Lupus just bought it off an Amazon seller yesterday just ordered a used copy for 1p plus the £2.75 p+p and got the "order dispatched" e-mail few hours later. The main bugs to me are again the lack of updates to stock availabilty with the seller somtimes canceling the order & the £2.75 appailed to every book order as a seperate item regardless of the number of books you order from the seller -does it really cost £2.75 to post a post within the UK?
Yes my plan as well for later :D
And i agree you can be very over charged for P&P by some people.
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The real question is what mini would be best for Professor AJ Copperthwaite, and what kind of expeditions will he (or she...?) end up on?
Copperthwaite is depicted as a slightly stout gentleman with a big Victorian beard, little round glasses, frock-coat and fez-type hat. Obviously, that's while at ease in his parlour. In another shot he's wearing a top-hat (stovepipe hat). There should be several suitable 'Darkest Africa'-type minis that would be suitable I'd think.
I've just done a search for AJ Copperthwaite, and pretty much 3 things come up - this thread, ordering the book from Amazon... and Dampfpanzerwagen's blog (linky) (http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/2009/11/stonehenge-alternative-theory.html), apparently he was on a Copperthwaite kick a couple of months ago... and here I was thinking I discovered an unknown masterpiece lol
It does mean that he probably has 1 - a copy of the book, and 2 - a working scanner, so maybe if we asked him very sweetly he'd scan the pic of Copperthwaite in the front... and then at least we'd all be able to see the great man.
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There are a couple of Foundry's Jack the Ripper minis - http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/FAVS/6/index.asp - that might suit.
Particurly the guy with the fez.
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Ours arrived safe and sound - Alasdair has abducted it now.....