Fnurban #39: Black Friday and the Middle Aisle

 Apparently it's 'Black Friday' today, some sort of made-up festival of what exactly?  So I won't bore you with lists of special deals ( that turn out to be not so special ),  but I did happen to be in a branch of the Aldi supermarket chain  today, and saw these in the famous 'middle aisle':    

Yes folks, a selection of 1/72 scale Airfix kits, selling at £6.99 each.  You can see some of them in my hasty 'phone picture,  but the full list appeared to be as follows: 

    Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1a

    Messerschmidt Bf 109E 

    Mitsubishi A6M 'Zero' 

    North American P51 Mustang

    DUKW 

That last one seems a little random, but there we are - I guess it's a job lot of whatever Airfix had a surplus of. If you are in the UK and a keen modeller of WW2 aircraft (and/or DUKWs ) in 1/72 scale, get down to your local Aldi 'while stocks last'.. 

I admit I didn't make a purchase, but it's nice to see them there, maybe a new generation of kids will experience the joy of sticking their fingers together with poly cement, or a few old geezers will re-live their childhood..  Actually I may go back for a DUKW - useful for river crossings by my 'D-Day Dodgers' British and Indians? 

One thing about them that made me smile was the presence of safety warnings etc printed on the boxes in several languages, one of which was of course German. So if you pick up the Spitfire kit, you see in very bold print the word  ACHTUNG... ( in the picture you can spot it on the topmost  'Zero' box ). Seems very appropriate, somehow. 

That's all for now, just a quick topical note. 'Real Life' and a bit of a mini-break has meant little or no hobby time this week apart from reading other folks' blogs - I hope to make some more progress next week, and report on it. Must start painting the figures I bought at Warfare the other week.  Until then, keep well everyone.