Well, they are 23 years old…
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Seriously? Dear God - it only seems like yesterday; am I really that old? Don’t answer - I know the stark reality(!)
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Well, according to Scalemates… And, no: you are not on there… 
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Brilliant!
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Package 2 of 2 from my Cyber-Hobby order from months ago finally arrived! Had basically given up on it as per Dragon it’s a limited run of 500 kits.
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Wow! That looks like it’s going to be huge?
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That will make an excellent stable mate to the Klingon D7 your purchased earlier this year.
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@Barney Steve, I was pretty blown away!
The model is about 2 foot 2 inches or ~67 cm. Too big for either of my current display book cases. This build will have wait on a big display case.
Excited and look for to collecting aftermarket parts for the build. Long ago ships were a favorite subject matter. Very happy to have a 1/350 Scharnhorst kit.
@Damraska Doug, indeed if it not from an Evil Empire 
real or fictional, I’m usually not interested in building it!
That D7 is in the same situation, I want to build it but don’t have shelf space for it.
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That kit supposed to be a real bear,I believe there’s a pretty extensive build thread going on here.
Looking forward to seeing it thru
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Well, that’s the costly part, Wade 
Kalin recently acquired this kit and I was involved in finding and ordering some AM goodies for it(PE sets, wooden deck e.t.c.).
As a result I have a new scale modelbuilding benchmark for “expensive” 
Cheers,
Angel
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The last two kits I built were Dragon, so i can well believe it. Never buying another Dragon kit.
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Anthony, agreed! It has a bad reputation even for a Dragon kit.
I’ll have to study and plan the Dragon Scharnhorst build. Seat of the pants modeling will end in tears 
Hope to knock out a couple of 1/400 Heller kits as warm ups to regain experience with ship building before tangling with the Evil Dragon.
@ayovtshev Angel, congratulations on the acquisition! I’d really hope you do a build thread when you decide to build it!
What aftermarket would you recommend?
Thanks
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These “updated” tracks are somehow worse then the original DS rubber band tracks and will need to be replaced by other AM options
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I had this title arrive today from Osprey Publishing for me to read and review for them.
Blood River 1838, The Zulu–Boer War and the Great Trek
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Those are for one of those infamous fat bikes?
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I don’t think anybody’s going to understand that joke unless they’ve been following the Dutch news recently …
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It might be a typical Dutch problem? I honestly do not know…
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AFAIK, yes, it is. IIRC, the helmet requirement for 25 km/h mopeds, that came in a few years ago, resulted in people not wanting those anymore. Some savvy bicycle sellers then began importing electric bikes meant for use in the snow or other rough terrain, because electric bikes with pedal assistance are pretty much unregulated and don’t have a minimum age requirement to ride them. The fact that they’re very easy to “upgrade” just through software won’t have hurt their sales either.
Other countries have 1) different rules and 2) little or no everyday bicycle culture, and therefore also no problems with these uglyass bikes.
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Okay… A failed joke then 
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