My library just grew again 2019

Rheged · December 30, 2018, 07:06:02 AM

Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen, sundry amorphous entities and all other sentient beings: for your delectation and delight, there has been created a new thread...... (roll of drums and fanfare of trumpets)...... "My library just grew again 2019"

Not to be used until on or after 12:01 am on 1st January, this shiny new thread has been created in advance in order to profitably utilise a small gap in the family Rheged's schedule . Your esteemed contributions are solicited throughout 2019!

Rheged · January 01, 2019, 02:14:19 AM

Just ordered from THE WORKS (at ridiculously low price of £6 less 30%. Yup, that's £4.20), the Haynes manual of the Blackburn Buccaneer

PR19_Kit · January 01, 2019, 05:03:15 AM

Quote from: Rheged on January 01, 2019, 02:14:19 AM

Just ordered from THE WORKS (at ridiculously low price of £6 less 30%. Yup, that's £4.20), the Haynes manual of the Blackburn Buccaneer

Now THAT'S good to know, thanks for the pointer.

It'll go well with my 'Buccaneer Boys' book.

[Later] Ordered, along with one for the Hurricane and the Saturn V as well.

scooter · January 03, 2019, 02:43:10 PM

Hard copy version of J.A. Sutherland's Into the Dark. Ordered it Christmas Day, showed up yesterday. And I've almost finished it again.

PR19_Kit · January 06, 2019, 11:02:42 AM

While staying with my good friends in Northants, we went to a local shopping centre today and I came across an amazing shop called 'Magazine Heaven', and it's VERFY well named!

I spent a VAST amount on all sorts of mags for my numerous hobbies, including two of the SAM Publications aircraft books, one on the Buccaneer and one on the Tornado. Both are superb, loads of pics on all versions of both of them, and some lovely colour profiles, but........

They both include a modelling section of course, but the Bucc book ONLY covers models built from the Airfix 1/48 kit, and the Tonka book only has one 1/72 scale build! And the section is entitled 'Modelling the ****** in the popular scales'!

Come on guys, we know you're all 1/48 scale nutters at SAM but 1/72 is still THE scale in the UK!

Gondor · January 06, 2019, 12:22:59 PM

I think what they did for the modelling section was use kits that they could get their hands on IIRC

Gondor

PR19_Kit · January 06, 2019, 12:52:57 PM

Quote from: Gondor on January 06, 2019, 12:22:59 PM

I think what they did for the modelling section was use kits that they could get their hands on IIRC

Gondor

They could have asked me, I've got at least a half dozen 1/72 Buccaneer kits in The Loft.

Gondor · January 07, 2019, 11:12:33 AM

Received in the post today as I could not find one in the shops

Scale
Aircraft
Modelling

December 2018 as I was after the article on Tiger Force for my Lancaster Mk. XL that I have been slowly, glacially, been building for the last ten years

Gondor

Steel Penguin · January 08, 2019, 10:57:47 AM

at the Penkridge wargames show sunday, the reprint of warhammer 40000 RT the one I couldn't purchase new from games workshop, as new in the plastic wrapper SCORE!

PR19_Kit · January 10, 2019, 06:02:19 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 01, 2019, 05:03:15 AM

Now THAT'S good to know, thanks for the pointer.

It'll go well with my 'Buccaneer Boys' book.

[Later] Ordered, along with one for the Hurricane and the Saturn V as well.

So far their '3-5 working days' has stretched out to seven working days with no sign of my books. I emailed them to see what's happening and their reply said that it could take ANOTHER seven days just to reply to my email!

Doesn't fill me full of confidence. The delay is apparently '.....due to the high volume of customer service enquiries....'

No it isn't, it's due to them not having enough people there to do the job!!!!

NARSES2 · January 10, 2019, 06:15:16 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 10, 2019, 06:02:19 AM

So far their '3-5 working days' has stretched out to seven working days with no sign of my books. I emailed them to see what's happening and their reply said that it could take ANOTHER seven days just to reply to my email!

Doesn't fill me full of confidence. The delay is apparently '.....due to the high volume of customer service enquiries....'

No it isn't, it's due to them not having enough people there to do the job!!!!

That's the type of reply I hate. "But surely you have just replied ?" is my normal response and that can kick off some interesting correspondence

. Mind you at least you got some form of reply unlike a publisher I'm currently engaged with

Rheged · January 10, 2019, 07:04:28 AM

Don't we all hate automatic reply messages! At least it lets you know that your email arrived with them. I ordered my Buccaneer book from The Works as "Click and collect" at their Hereford store and it was pretty quick in arriving.

Having once been involved in the running of the Customer Service department of a book wholesaler, I can sympathise both with the after Christmas overload that they are no doubt experiencing, and with your understandable frustration. Appointing AND HOLDING ON TO good, intelligent staff who want to work providing a competent service to customers and not just as ill trained zombies in an amorphous call centre is quite a challenge.

As regards dealing with publishers, I am prevented both by the laws of libel and a degree of personal reticence from telling stories about certain companies; on the other hand Norwich Books, Canterbury Press, Lion-Hudson and Hodder and Stoughton were all a delight to deal with........at least they were 7 years ago.

PR19_Kit · January 10, 2019, 07:37:55 AM

Well, delete my above posting!

My books were delivered, but not to me. They went to a neighbour, who kindly just bought them round this afternoon, but as she's been away since New Year she has no idea when they were delivered.

My address is clearly on the label so some delivery driver can't read.

Grovelling apology email sent to The Works...........

All three books are WONDERFUL, but I'm going to need some serious revision of my engineering knowledge before I understand the Saturn V book, it's SERIOUSLY complicated!

Gondor · January 10, 2019, 11:12:17 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 10, 2019, 07:37:55 AM

All three books are WONDERFUL, but I'm going to need some serious revision of my engineering knowledge before I understand the Saturn V book, it's SERIOUSLY complicated!

Makes me want to buy that book just to find out how complicated, it's not as it it's ~~rocket science~~ brain surgery is it?

Gondor

PR19_Kit · January 10, 2019, 12:11:25 PM

Quote from: Gondor on January 10, 2019, 11:12:17 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 10, 2019, 07:37:55 AM

All three books are WONDERFUL, but I'm going to need some serious revision of my engineering knowledge before I understand the Saturn V book, it's SERIOUSLY complicated!

Makes me want to buy that book just to find out how complicated, it's not as it it's ~~rocket science~~ brain surgery is it?

Gondor

It contains, amongst others, cross section drawings of the main rocket engines in fine detail, the fuel injection end, the exhaust end and the cooling bit in the middle. So those bit really ARE rocket science.