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Now, if you don't have a spare room to devote to displaying the resulting models, or you hoped to avoid the cutting-out-paper-dolls stage entirely, you may wish the donor (and surely no one ever bought one of these for himself) had considered the safety of a nice bottle of Scotch. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 03:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC) | Now, if you don't have a spare room to devote to displaying the resulting models, or you hoped to avoid the cutting-out-paper-dolls stage entirely, you may wish the donor (and surely no one ever bought one of these for himself) had considered the safety of a nice bottle of Scotch. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 03:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC) | ||
Inn the introduction, TP suggests you go out and buy ''two'' copies of this book: one to build, and one as a pristine copy to go on the shelf with the rest of the Pratchett collection. Hmmm. To be honest, while the pictures are nice and the design is ingenious, there's only about four (very entertaining) pages of foreword by Terry and the rest is, well, just padding. I build models as a hobby, true, but they're in the time-honoured craftsman's material of styrene plastic, held together with the acetone-based glue which has been with us since the Dawn of Plastics and the advent of the Great God Airfix. This new-fangled paper-and-glue thing ain't gonna work... (seriously, I don't have the patience for it)--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 09:37, 19 May 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Now, if you don't have a spare room to devote to displaying the resulting models, or you hoped to avoid the cutting-out-paper-dolls stage entirely, you may wish the donor (and surely no one ever bought one of these for himself) had considered the safety of a nice bottle of Scotch. --Old Dickens 03:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Inn the introduction, TP suggests you go out and buy two copies of this book: one to build, and one as a pristine copy to go on the shelf with the rest of the Pratchett collection. Hmmm. To be honest, while the pictures are nice and the design is ingenious, there's only about four (very entertaining) pages of foreword by Terry and the rest is, well, just padding. I build models as a hobby, true, but they're in the time-honoured craftsman's material of styrene plastic, held together with the acetone-based glue which has been with us since the Dawn of Plastics and the advent of the Great God Airfix. This new-fangled paper-and-glue thing ain't gonna work... (seriously, I don't have the patience for it)--AgProv 09:37, 19 May 2008 (UTC)