RJ-WobblyHands Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Just picked this book up at 'The Works' its on offer for £6.00, seems good value - spent the afternoon reading it rather than modelling lol - and I don't yet had an F-14 of any scale / variant in my stash ........... yet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Interesting, I totally missed this. How does this compare to other titles on the Tomcat ? Living abroad I'd have to order one online, may just buy it because it's a book on the Tomcat but I'd like to be sure the content is worth the cost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 1 minute ago, Giorgio N said: Interesting, I totally missed this. How does this compare to other titles on the Tomcat ? Living abroad I'd have to order one online, may just buy it because it's a book on the Tomcat but I'd like to be sure the content is worth the cost It's good, probably not worth more than the £6 asked at The Works, depending on what other books you have and what info you want. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 21 minutes ago, Parabat said: It's good, probably not worth more than the £6 asked at The Works, depending on what other books you have and what info you want. Thanks, good to know ! A bit worried, if £6 is all the book is worth then maybe it's not such a good buy for me, as the cheapest I can find is around £20 delivered.. What other books I have I'd say almost all of them, so I can probably find any info on the other books I have. Still if the book includes decent pictures and has a good text I may consider this, if only to have a more complete collection of books on the type Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Might be an idea then to get a friend in UK to buy it and send it over to you? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 1 hour ago, Parabat said: Might be an idea then to get a friend in UK to buy it and send it over to you? That's something to consider, would be way cheaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie_c67 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 On 06/09/2018 at 16:07, Giorgio N said: Thanks, good to know ! A bit worried, if £6 is all the book is worth then maybe it's not such a good buy for me, as the cheapest I can find is around £20 delivered.. It’s marketed at £22.99 normally, but the Works tends to be a treasure trove for end of run delights. I’ve also got the Spitfire, Hurricane, Stuka, Eurofighter, Mossie and Blenheim Haynes manuals from the same place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 Thanks Charlie ! I popped into Liverpool's shop the last time I visited the UK, unfortunately they had none of the aviation related manuals but I bough the Chieftain title and found it very well done. Of course not knowing anything about the Chieftain my view of the book is not the most valid... I may go for the £20 posted, at worst it would be another element in my collection of Tomcat books... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 (edited) On 9/8/2018 at 12:37 AM, charlie_c67 said: It’s marketed at £22.99 normally, but the Works tends to be a treasure trove for end of run delights. I’ve also got the Spitfire, Hurricane, Stuka, Eurofighter, Mossie and Blenheim Haynes manuals from the same place. Read in the press a while back (so it might not be true) that The Works have now taken to ordering print runs of different books for distribution through their own stores rather than only buying up ends of line which might explain the number of different Haynes and '..... Boys' titles that they now offer , good for the buyer but would not think that it is so good in the long run for the publisher. Edited September 12, 2018 by Des removed errant 's' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 10 hours ago, Giorgio N said: Thanks Charlie ! I popped into Liverpool's shop the last time I visited the UK, unfortunately they had none of the aviation related manuals but I bough the Chieftain title and found it very well done. Of course not knowing anything about the Chieftain my view of the book is not the most valid... I may go for the £20 posted, at worst it would be another element in my collection of Tomcat books... You can order on-line and collect at store. As I did for this title at my local TheWorks storw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie_c67 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 6 hours ago, theplasticsurgeon said: You can order on-line and collect at store. As I did for this title at my local TheWorks storw. Not sure that chain has made it across the channel for Giorgio though... 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Yes, that's the problem 😁 Still, I may use this option next time I plan a trip to the UK, order online and have it ready to collect at the shop closest to wherever I'm going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahawk Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 20 hours ago, Des said: Read in the press a while back (so it might not be true) that The Works have now taken to ordering print runs of different books for distribution through their own stores rather than only buying up ends of line which might explain the number of different Haynes and '..... Boys' titles that they now offer , good for the buyer but would not think that it is so good in the long run for the publisher. And certain publishers now seem to be producing specifically for the remaindered/casual-purchase-in-garden-centre market. The books might have a price printed on the dustjacket but you would be unlucky to pay, or even find it at, more than a third of that. Sometimes it is painfully obvious from the quality of the text and/or photos and/or production values that the book has been designed down to a price. (A particular nadir was a book called something like "Tirpitz: The Early Cruises", written by morons or maybe a bot and purporting to be the record of a prewar cruise by the Tirpitz: of course it was nothing of the kind, rather the photo-album of someone who had served on the Tirpitz containing pre-war shots of other Kriegsmarine warships.) Less frequently you get good quality research at a knock-down price eg I've never paid full price for any in the "x Group Bomber Command: An Operational Record" series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 (edited) I've bought quite a few Haynes Manuals through our local "Works" shop - all for £6. The most recent was the Boeing 707 title. Their book on the Space Shuttle is one of the best ever on the technical aspects of the spacecraft. I found it very helpful when building my 1/144 Shuttle stack a few years ago. Edited September 18, 2018 by Eric Mc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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