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Offline loki

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U-Boot
« on: February 27, 2008, 09:43:23 AM »

Offline Poliorketes

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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2008, 11:20:25 AM »
Have you seen the postage rate for overseas? That's ridiculous.
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Offline uti long smile

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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2008, 12:49:56 PM »
I've been very tempted by this in the past - but the shipping is a killer.

Ordered a couple of painted pieces from SJM in the past and they've been OK - the mole machine for example is quite nice.
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Offline Hammers

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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2008, 01:40:51 PM »
That dohickey doesn't say submarine to me. It looks more like a zeppelin accidentally puffed up with cement insted of hydrogen and now it has troubles getting out of the water.

Offline Hammers

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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2008, 01:41:39 PM »
Now I've got it. It is of course a lead zepelin.

Offline Plynkes

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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2008, 02:19:09 PM »
With Cat-Like Tread
Upon our prey we steal...

Offline Hammers

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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2008, 02:25:13 PM »
Thank you! I'll be here all week.

Offline Westfalia Chris

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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2008, 03:42:37 PM »
Quote from: "hammershield"
Thank you! I'll be here all week.


Good. That leaves us with enough time to come up with measures appropriate for punishing you for that pun. :lol:

Have to say, without even regarding the price, I don´t like that sub at all. It cannot make up it´s mind as to what it wants to be - hull shape looks like a nuke sub, with lots of greeblies added that would make underwater microphones  overload due to the noise...

Short, doesn´t look neither Victorian nor Pulp or Modern. :?

Offline Lordblackwing

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Mole Machine?
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2008, 09:04:49 PM »
If I am not mistaken, that "mole Machine" is the old Epicast 40k scale tunneler, the Termite. It looks like the one I have stashed somewhere around here for my Squat/Grymn forces.


Edit: The sub doesn't look right...too wide for its length. Early subs where long and narrow.
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Offline DiggerPete

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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2008, 08:40:22 AM »
As a former Sub Driver I would NEVER get on that beastie :o
It would be a case of DIVE, DIVE, DIblulbblubblub............... :cry:

Offline Rhoderic

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« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2008, 11:58:14 AM »
How "anti" this place got all of a sudden. I don't think it's THAT bad. You lot sound like you'd be ready to boycott any game this model appears in :wink:
"When to keep awake against the camel's swaying or the junk's rocking, you start summoning up your memories one by one, your wolf will have become another wolf, your sister a different sister, your battle other battles, on your return from Euphemia, the city where memory is traded." - Italo Calvino

Offline revford

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« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2008, 12:25:42 PM »
The big, flat deck makes it a very game practical model.  Lots of space for the action to take place.
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Offline JollyBob

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« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2008, 12:28:39 PM »
It's alright. In general I like it, and I appreciate that it's a game piece not a real sub, but the colourscheme in the painted version is almost exactly like Stingray to my mind, and that puts me off quite a lot, unfortunately.

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« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2008, 02:53:05 PM »
They were all drawn to the Keep; the soldiers who brought death; the father and daughter fighting for life; the people who have always feared it; and the one man who knows its secret....

Offline Helen

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« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2008, 07:50:45 PM »
Quote from: "hammershield"
Thank you! I'll be here all week.


Do you have too :lol:
Best wishes,
Helen
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