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    Model kit packaging.

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    @ikar - I remember that opening boxes at Shima's and Frank's and they had a particular smell.  It wasn't a bad smell.  Just a particular smell.  Whenever I get a package from a Japanese on-line stores, that particular scent takes my mind back to my time in Okinawa.

     

    Back to the subject, what if we could return all our plastic sprues for credits/ tokens towards a new purchase? The sprues would be turned back into plastic pellets and be used for new plastic kits.  It's a lot to ask, but at least they don't turn into more landfill, ocean trash, and all the bad things that people are trying to avoid with plastic bags.  Think - recycling beer/ soda bottles & cans and using the money to buy more beer/ soda.  It's really more a token gesture at best, but I'm down for any extra incentives to be able to finish then buy more kits.

     

    Model kit packaging.

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    On 2/3/2022 at 7:50 AM, ikar said:

    It does use a lot of plastic to pack pits that way.  It might be better just to place a layer of tissue paper or something like it between each layer and then seal the box.  In Okinawa I would often look at the parts when I was in the toy shop before I bought the kit.  But that was some time ago.

    I wonder Shima's across the street from Foster/ Butler is still there?  There was another place down the same street and next to a bakery.

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