Have you ever built anything weekly via magazines

[TeaCider]

I started plenty as a kid, never finished any.

Bought plenty of the Battle Games of Middle Earth issues though, because it was amazing value compared to the extortionate Games Workshop prices.

12 goblins for 99p in the first issue, as opposed to something like £12 for 24 in Games Workshop.

 

[swordtrombonefish]

Not physically - used to own a Video Genie (like a TRS-80 for those that remember) and the magazines woulkd publish games and useful utilities that you had to hand code into the thing then save to tape. It sounds as frustrating as it was - but it taught me a ton of stuff so...

 

[dickyjim78]

The orbis 1990 world cup thing was a similar type deal, except you didn't really build anything you just stuck the magazine's in a ring binder. This however was possibly the greatest work of modern literature rather than being 120 issues about the batmobile. I never finished it though.

32 years later and I'm still distraught they stopped selling the red stickers before I filled it.

 

[newyddion]

£100 a week, 12 weeks and at the end.. you get a car… that would would be fun!

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

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[Druss_The_Legend]

I always fancied doing the HMS victory one of them, but My attention span and commitment levels don't tend to last 2 years for one artwork/project/hobby, so decided it's not for me. Although occasionally I look at the website and think about it then I remember why I didn't do it in the first place or get a not so gentle reminder from my Mrs why I don't start long-term projects like this, by mentioning my guitars, ukulele, harmonicas and a few other hobbies I have started and obsessed over and never progressed much beyond basics.

 

[jonny_greenings_sock]

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I filled it

 

[BiggEggo]

Built a money pit once.

 

[Laughing]

I always fancied doing the HMS victory one of them, but My attention span and commitment levels don't tend to last 2 years for one artwork/project/hobby, so decided it's not for me. Although occasionally I look at the website and think about it then I remember why I didn't do it in the first place or get a not so gentle reminder from my Mrs why I don't start long-term projects like this, by mentioning my guitars, ukulele, harmonicas and a few other hobbies I have started and obsessed over and never progressed much beyond basics.

My wife says the same about my particle accelerator