My library just grew again 2016

Started by Rheged, December 29, 2015, 02:14:12 AM

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Steel Penguin

a good set of reading matter today, 
British secret Projects 5   space shuttle,  :thumbsup:
Haynes B52  :thumbsup:
Frostgrave forgotten pacts, ( barbarians and stuff for the base game ) :thumbsup:
the things you learn, give your mind the wings to fly, and the chains to hold yourself steady
take off and nuke the site form orbit, nope, time for the real thing, CAM and gridfire, call special circumstances. 
wow, its like freefalling into the Geofront
Not a member of the Hufflepuff conspiracy!

zenrat

Quote from: Nick on December 25, 2016, 05:11:05 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on December 25, 2016, 03:57:56 AM
Anyway my Xmas pressies included French Secret Projects Vol 1  :thumbsup: which I wasn't expecting and some Waterstone's tokens which I was. Still trying to figure out how somebody figured out I'd like the Secret Projects and that I hadn't bout it ?  :unsure:

They've been spying on this forum!

Todays haul so far includes In Memory: A Tribute To Sir Terry Pratchett. Short stories written by his fans all on the theme of memory, proceeds going to Alzheimers Research UK.

A signed copy of Ready Player One. They've just made the movie of this excellent videogame nostalgia story.  :thumbsup:

Five Go On A Strategy Away Day. Brilliant parody of Enid Blyton's Famous Five tales  ;D

Ready Player One - Best thing I read all year.  Thoroughly recommend it to all.
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

KiwiZac

Quote from: PR19_Kit on December 25, 2016, 09:15:51 AM
A copy of 'The Lightning Boys', a great book, but sadly I already have it.

I may be in a 'swapping situation' if anyone's interested?
I've no idea if I have anything worth swapping?

Yesterday my wife's uncle gave my a copy of a book he raved about to me last year: A Higher Call by Adam Makos.
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Thorvic

The new reprinted Air Britain "The Squadrons and Units of the Fleet Air Arm"  :thumbsup:
My Annual "British Warships and Auxiliaries  2017/18  ;D
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jcf

Quote from: Thorvic on December 26, 2016, 02:11:06 AM
My Annual "British Warships and Auxiliaries  2017/18  ;D

Is it down to bookazine size yet?  :wacko:

NARSES2

Quote from: joncarrfarrelly on December 26, 2016, 01:06:08 PM
Quote from: Thorvic on December 26, 2016, 02:11:06 AM
My Annual "British Warships and Auxiliaries  2017/18  ;D

Is it down to bookazine size yet?  :wacko:

Without the Auxiilaries they could probably get it down to a flyer in a few years  :banghead: :banghead: :angry:
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Mossie

British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle (Finally! :thumbsup:)
French Secret Projects 1: Post War Fighters
Flying Wings and Radical Things: Northrop'sSecret Aerospace Projects and Concepts 1939-1994
Buccaneer Boys
Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History

Others:
Collins 2017 Guide to the Night Sky
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

Spey_Phantom

secret santa from my mother :)

-Belgium at war 3: Air Battles over the channel
on the bench:

-all kinds of things.

Rheged

Bradshaw's Continental Railway  Guide 1853  (a reprint)
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

The Wooksta!

Been buying a fair few books recently, so here's just a few:

Spycatcher - Peter Wright
Their trade is treachery - Chapman Pincher
Too secret, too long - Chapman Pincher
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Rick Lowe

From a penfriend, "American Knights", about the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion in WW2
and a book on the Natchez Trace Parkway.

rickshaw

Quote from: The Wooksta! on December 27, 2016, 08:56:02 AM
Been buying a fair few books recently, so here's just a few:

Spycatcher - Peter Wright
Their trade is treachery - Chapman Pincher
Too secret, too long - Chapman Pincher

You are aware that "Spycatcher" is fiction?
How to reduce carbon emissions - Tip #1 - Walk to the Bar for drinks.

PR19_Kit

My eldest daughter gave me a copy of John Sweetman's 'The Damsbusters' for my birthday, which isn't quite what you might think it is.

It's pretty detailed account of the 1943 raid on the dams, interspersed with an account of the BBC's 21st century 'simulation' of the raid with a modern day RAF crew 'flying' an advanced simulator of the flight. Fascinating stuff, but see my post under the movies thread :- http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,19246.2370.html

The book does a much better job of giving the various crew member's accounts of what happened than anything else I've ever seen, or read.
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Rheged

Occasionally, the BBC get  it  very right indeed!!
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

PR19_Kit

Quote from: Rheged on December 29, 2016, 02:34:06 AM

Occasionally, the BBC get  it  very right indeed!!


Sadly, such occasions are outnumbered by the VAST amount of things they get totally 110% WRONG!  :banghead: :banghead:
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit