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The penguins are a give away too.

Is there plenty of the NASA F-104 sheet left? I am holding off ordering until the Canberra sheet is ready to order to save on international shipping, but don't want to miss out.

Your talking my language there, Permanent Waves is a Top 5 Rush album for me, seeing them on that tour would have been amazing. I was lucky enough to see them twice in 2015. Which Tangerine Dream album would you recommend?

Which tour did you see Rush on? That's quite the concert history!

That tour program is an awesome collectable, and Gwen...the Ultimate Sin....god only knows! In some ways his wealth doesn't account for his influence on music. Black Sabbath's Vol. 4 alone spawned about 1000 bands. The musicians he surrounded himself with have had a huge influence in the metal genre. Randy was always far more interesting to me than Eddy Van Halen. When I started to listening to Ozzy in the mid 90's he was retired, if you told me he would last another 30 years I wouldn't have believed you. If you haven't already, I highly recommend wa

You should be happy with that model, it looks spot on.

Yes Kursad posted the fs number when the decals were first released. FS15102. The light blue colour is more up for debate and I have never found a proper match. My F-104 is on the shelf of doom for that reason, using gunze C034 with a ton of white didn't work. What did you use for the light blue?

From memory the wings were painted white to make the aircraft more visible while flying across the desert. The F-4E in Thunderbirds markings at Pima is a former Eduards test bird too.

The question is, in 2025 are people going to join a new forum? Social media or even reddit offer a higher level of visibility and ease of use a forum doesn't offer. That said moving to britmodeller or even large scale planes sounds like a workable idea.

That's a F-15D dressed up as an F-15E Hasegawa box art load out if ever I saw one.

Thanks Raymond. Been buying from lucky model since 2004. Shipping to NZ from lucky model has got quite a bit cheaper since the recent changes.

Tamiya lacquer thinner works with gunze paint. Tamiya's retarder type thinner is good too, gives a better finish with Tamiya paint than Mr leveling Thinner does.

Charging sales tax on international orders is immoral, just government's being greedy. I could possibly understand the shipping portion, as that at least involves local services, but the whole order is wrong. Who even polices that the shop forwards that tax on to local authorities anyway?

That is a nice looking model. Way back when I built my Hobby Boss F-111G I had to use a spacer to widen the fuselage to make the kit cockpit fit properly.

You did a great job of hiding that nasty wing fit. Looks great