Deal of the Month
Ho, ho, ho! Look at the little parcel that has arrived today.
Hey, what is inside?
Let's see the wrapped contents...
Here we are! Three ready to fight raries.
I found them (as a lot) on one of our PL auction portals (allegro.pl) for about 11 USD including postage
Of course, the seller was honest saying just the minis, no bases, no pegs, no decks, no boxes - but who cares!
It's the Deal of the Month, isn't it
Happy Andy.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Udets DVII and Immelmanns EIII are two of the aircrafts I am searching for.
You hit the jackpot, Andy
Just a suggestion: when posting package pics, it might be a good idea to block out the address and other Personal Identity Info.
Cannot agree more as I did something just as absent minded the other day. Opened front window fully inspired by a thread on here to go outside and take a photo of where I live: Posted not one photo but two radiant ones looking north and then south of my actual house ...Originally Posted by Diamondback
Just a suggestion: when posting package pics, it might be a good idea to block out the address and other Personal Identity Info.
Then I came to my senses! Just given away where I live ... Or at least enough visual clues as to where not only my Wings of Glory stuff is located but also my other aircraft too (insured and the policy actually FORBIDS this!)
Just before leaving the house empty for just under two days to visit Manchester Airport plane spotting over the Public Holiday weekend. Still cannot believe how badly my judgement lapsed there ... But at least I realised.
Guests frequent this site and can read postings. Lurkers also join this site and then do nothing giving no clues as to who they are or their intentions. Both become aware of where to find your treasures ...
Don't let joy turn to sorrow - and it's not just me being a paranoid git either!
"It's not paranoia if there really IS someone Out To Get You..." LOL It's not something I'd wish on anyone, but having a bullseye on your back tends to change the way you view a lot of things. :O
Great score Andy!
Easy chaps, for some (professional) reasons my address is known and I do not have to hide it
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Easy chaps, for some (professional) reasons my address is known and I do not have to hide it
Besides, they are stored in the secret bunker behind the triple thick bombproof doors after the booby trapped corridor maze, if you can get past the guard dogs and mine field.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Andy, I have been in a similar situation when listed as Angel Transport Projects in what is regarded as the Who's Who Guide of Civil Aviation. Didn't give my name out individually but used my home address within the listing with a communal / company mobile phone. Back in those days I still had a model railway layout which was worth a fortune and a plethora of Herpa Wings 1/500 scale aircraft.
No longer in there as my health has relegated me down to Word of Mouth recommendation. but I remember how strict my Don't Mix Work With Pleasure ethos was bearing my address situation in mind. Even on E-Teach which is online but closed access to sessions only. Fortunately not many trainee pilots are also into model trains which helped me to maintain that ethos just nicely.
Over in Loughborough however is Adam Porter who I once knew on Facebook and still does have a model railway which runs all the way around his back garden. But in 2010 Facebook friend Chris took an interest in the number of photos Adam was posting of his trains on Facebook and whilst he was away in Ibiza Chris decided to break into Adam's house and steal a significant amount of rolling stock from him. On discovering the break in Adam circulated details of the missing items amongst the local model shops. Ten of his items turned up in nearby Sileby and Chris was arrested and charged. Only fifteen of Adam's stolen items were ever recovered out of thirty. So ... With Chris now in Pentonville and off the scene Adam builds his collection back up and details his progress on Facebook once again as he was doing so. He and I returned from the Barrow Hill Open Day on August 14th 2011 to find his house broken into and the same all over again ...
Barney...what a fatal story...Now I fully understand your point.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
This is also why I refuse to have a Facebook account under my own name... when a site I was a technical consultant on insisted I had to have one as condition of employment, I set one up with a false profile on the opposite coast at an address that you'd have to get past both Marines AND Secret Service to get to... and that's IF it actually existed. (A non-existent abandoned hangar at MCAF Quantico's Turner Field, where they base the Presidential helos.)
I believe the Hammer & Sickle crowd used to refer to such things as "Active Measures" or "Desinformatsiya"...
In 2010 I received a memo from a Carrier I was training pilots with that basically restricted all third party provision and contractor staff from having Active: Facebook / Bebo / Myspace and Twitter accounts whilst working with them. By the end of the following year all of what's called the ME3 Carriers plus Turkish Airlines had the same restriction in place. Now EVERYBODY says this but it no longer applies to me: I came off Facebook once and for all in 2011 because of the extent of this ban and with no desire to break the rules and gain myself a reputation for flouting them as I undertook my duties.
However in 2009 there had been an incident where a trainee pilot from Bahrain who was training in another country got rather inebriated and began to post stuff on Facebook about his peers and then about the instructors who were training him ... Followed by a similar incident at a European Carrier the following year which proves that restrictions like this can and do protect people from their own lapses in judgement ... Or in the European case stupidity: Captain Jolly this gentleman referred to me as in one Facebook posting Who was grounded because he's got manic depression in real life.
I replied with nothing and one month after this the individual concerned was grounded over poor performance as a trainee and also because he was found to be taking citalophram which is an anti-depressant medication.
Nice deal Andrzej.
Potential repaint models.
Voilŕ le soleil d'Austerlitz!
nice score andy! i got a similar deal awhile back with a shaefer dVII, rahn, dr1, and the roland with the shark mouth and 2 alb dvs for $25. just the planes no bases, pegs or cards but those were easily found.
I paid a LOT more than that for my versions of those 3 planes.
Yabbut I got stands and cards
(Expensive stands and cards .. oh and boxes, too!)
Well done, Andrzej!
Indiana Jones would still get in, Peter.Besides, they are stored in the secret bunker behind the triple thick bombproof doors after the booby trapped corridor maze, if you can get past the guard dogs and mine field.
Great find Andy.
He forgot to mention the rats....Indiana Jones would still get in, Peter.
I have the Enterprise...beam me up Scotty!
See you on the Dark Side......
Andy, you'll have to install a giant rolling stone ball, some poison dart blowguns and a snake names Reggie.Indiana Jones would still get in, Peter.
I think an angry wife (not mine!) would form the last line of defense!
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
I think an angry wife (not mine!) would form the last line of defense!
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Well done,
That Kempf Tripe is at the top of my list but I am also looking for the cards and stands....some day
In the meantime....keep searching.
On a side note I just plain refuse to get on Facebook or any of the other sites...too many lurkers checking your life out. (but then I am on these boards so go figure...sigh)
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