jenko Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 And here she is again Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Cohiba Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Since I saw this, I am looking for the right term. I don't get it; it's not really sexist, not really "unprofessional", nor "inapprobriate". Not like the Eduard ad recently, the one with the ME109, that was all of that, but this... Wait, give me a sec, it pops straight up now; Got it: it's CHEESY! That's the definition of it, cheesiness! I love their kits, but I don't consider myself a target audience for that ad. Nor anyone of this forum (it says "adult" somewhere)... 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOD Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Quite extraordinary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 It does seem rather anachronistic. I remember when the Airfix Supermodel* advert came out in the 90s (?) and thinking it seemed outdated even then. *I'm sure someone in the marketing department thought they were being clever, but I don't think it's one of the company's finer moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 I'm totally ok with this. If it flushes out the MCPs, always a good thing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
europapete Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 13 hours ago, Rabbit Leader said: DO NOT TOUCH my models! Which type of models are you refering to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenko Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 46 minutes ago, europapete said: Which type of models are you refering to? Work on the principal that both are to expensive.😂😂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 It's an odd one this and I'm trying to make sure that what I think doesn't say more about me than the video. She's appeared twice that I know of. Maybe she works at Special Hobby. Great if she does. Maybe she just likes wearing pretty clothes. Again, great if she does. It's entirely possible she made the model - @Stew Dapple and I have certainly had younger female customers at trade shows. The fan blowing her hair was a bit of a cheesy touch and the camera and/or editing focusing on her body seemed to detract from rather than add to the video. I'm not a very serious person and tend to take a dislike to people who lack the mental ability to take things light-heartedly, so I'm certainly not offended by the video. If anything makes me less than comfortable when attractive women appear in this hobby it's some the sinister-creepy male reactions to be honest, which tends to follow a theme of being pathologically incapable of not commenting on her appearance. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichG Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) 23 hours ago, Coors54 said: Can you imagine what the girl must have said and thought when asked to do that? A toy plane? Go on, really? When you said "modelling"... I thought you meant... Edited July 6, 2021 by RichG 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewerjerry Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) Hi Well i think it is good advertising on this thread it has 757 views and two pages so far and we are talking about it what a sales team tries to achieve cheers jerry Edited July 6, 2021 by brewerjerry 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85sqn Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Cringe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Hugo Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Don't know what I would do with the blonde but I still want the Whirlwind model though, It does look very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham T Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Sorry, is is 2021 or 1981? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 42 minutes ago, Graham T said: Sorry, is is 2021 or 1981? 2021 obviously. They’d never have panel lines that good back in 1981 Oh you mean the advert using a model model lady? Oops sorry More seriously part of me wonders if the advert is more a wee bit of a wind up come poking fun at that genre of advertising. Or maybe not. Oh well it makes for a different type of discussion on here and a change from how many rivets??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors54 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Charlie Hugo said: Don't know what I would do with the blonde Oh dear, really? 😄 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) Nothing wrong in appealing to red blooded males,...... even Airfix did it in the 90`s with the lass wearing a silver dress, holding a model. Well I appreciate good lines,.... be they female or aeronautic. Edited July 6, 2021 by tonyot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiampieroSilvestri Posted July 6, 2021 Author Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Graham T said: Sorry, is is 2021 or 1981? I see nothing that is unappropriate in this advertisements.Yesterday a German TV channel showed parts of a entertainement programme from 1978.It would cause outrage today but at that time people laughed about it. In Germany we have a saying "Man muss die Kirche auch mal im Dorf lassen" which more or less means people should not take everything so seriously.🙂 Saluti Giampiero Edited July 6, 2021 by GiampieroSilvestri 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenko Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) I've just told the wife that I have a new Special Hobby . Not the sort of thing you can put under your arm when you walk in the house and say ....Look what I won in the Raffle. As an aside ....If she exploded would you call her a Blonde Bomb Shell. Dick Just off to have my meds. Edited July 6, 2021 by jenko 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Golly gosh - using attractive women to sell aircraft related stuff. Who would have thought of that? I wrote a scholarly article on reference material, where to find it and how to use it for our late lamented local model magazine, Modelart. I wanted to have a bet that my cover picture of a very attractive librarian in her modest uniform with a selection of reference books would lead to that issue having the best ever sales of the magazine but the Editor would not come to the party. I guess he didn't want to lose his wager! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 One of the model railway traders uses an attractive young woman in his adverts. It does catch the eye, but I've never had reason to buy anything from him (or her) and he doesn't seem to have risen any higher in the hobby hierarchy (judging from the size of the advert) so I suspect it does no more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Incidentally: those covers prove global warming is a thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattheCat Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 I'm not in figures but In which scale will SH produce her? I'm tempted. Oh, that was about the 1/32 Whirlwind. Sorry, I didn't note it. And I DO like the Whirlwind a lot (*). (*) Proof that - in my personal case at least - such ads won't help them build their business. 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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