Britannia Previews Supacat Jackal

clambo – a good point, but then "announcing" things on TMP (as I have indeed done in the past) is not like (how can I put this delicately…) "real" advertising, is it?

It doesn't cost anything to do unlike print magazine advertisements (and as someone who's done a fair few of those in the past for Salute, I know what they cost and it's lots and lots). TMP is – after all – a forum, not an advertising medium per se (though it does, of course, have side bar type advertising as well) and – by my estimation – an 'announcement' is just what it says it is.

There's an old saying that if you don't pay for something… that's usually what it's worth. While I don't think that this rule applies here, what it does suggest is that – as the 'announcement' is more like a free opportunity to discuss things: like a conversation in the pub – it will stray off subject (I remember the announcements I used to do about Salute via TMP and hopw they ALWAYS stayed on 'message'!!!), but yes clambo: you do have a point: it is frustrating and I can see both sides of the argument.

John T

PS Oddball. I know what you mean: late at night I pulled out of the car park of the Sugarpine Railway in Yosemite a few months ago. I'd traveled half a mile in the dark before I almost hit a guy coming the other way on 'my' side of the road (by which I mean myself, my wife and a half a ton of Honda Goldwing were actually on HIS side of the road!). I don't know who was more scared but it was probably me (or my passenger)… "Backwards" indeed! If only you foreigners drove on the proper side of the road ;-)

Still: if it means that the odd Taliban – so used to shooting at Ruskies and Yanks over the years – gets into what he fondly imagines is a great position to shoot the driver on a British vehicle – as modeled by the excellent Britannia Miniatures Supacat Jackal mentioned in this announcemnt – and meets the machine gunner instead, then all to the good, eh?