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sigtau started following CMP48001 - 1/48 Pave Tack for F-111F, WTB: Caracal 1/144 C-141 decals, Ebay Import Charge and 7 others
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Looking for this sheet, shoot me a PM if you have one to sell.
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Their website says they are shutting down ordering for the USA while they upgrade their system to collect the tariffs.
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Email sent concerning the set I received from the first batch of 10. I promise it's not angry.
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So I've always found the Alclad Aqua Gloss clear to be an over-rated clear coat. It doesn't dry very hard and like you experienced, it doesn't do a good job of protecting anything from a wash. I have a large stock of Testors Acryl clear gloss that I use for coating over Alclad to protect it from hot lacquer clear coats like Mr. Color. It's also worth noting that the Ammo washes....well....suck. They are enamel based paints just thinned down to appear to be washes. They are not based on the traditional artist oil paints. The pigmentation in them is very coarse. I drank the Amm
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Anything that was part of the "old" Squadron company was sold at bankruptcy auction. I know the ebay seller "racershaven" ended up buying most of the masters and then raffled them off for charity in the Facebook selling group called "Scale Model Graveyard". I don't know the person who won them and have no idea if they ever made anything of them. If I recall, it was at least all the True Details masters and possibly some of the redone Blackbox sets that were sold under the Avionix line. Jeff Verswijvel started KMC and eventually Black box, before working for the original Squadron through th
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Yeah, but you're not going to notice it when model master gunship gray yellows. It also depends on if you used testors glosscoat/dullcoat on the build. I didn't start using it until the mid 90's and I wish I hadn't. Everything white I used it on yellowed badly. Luckily, I switched to acrylic clear coats in the late 90's.
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It depends on several factors. Some of my older builds look like they were finished yesterday, some look like they are 50 years old. Here's what I've noticed about my older builds that are 30+ years old: - Testors enamel based whites almost always develop some yellowing - Clear coating over decals helps them not age as badly - Tamiya paint holds up well at 35+ years - Humidity swings + dust = badly caked on dust that can be hard to remove from a model - Old Testors tube glue joints weaken with age - CA joints seem to hold up well and the seams don't reappear ove
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I did eventually get my order around the 2nd week of March. It turns out the USPS package drop he was using wasn't being checked by USPS. Mike threw in a ton of extra items to make up for the original delay with Paypal payments not working for him. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt since it all worked out in the end. Not to mention, his products are actually quite good. His PW nozzle for the Kinetic Gold F-16 series is amazing and I'm looking forward to several builds using them. His F-16A early pylons are also excellent. Print quality is on par with Eduard or Reskit.
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I live in Washington state and we've had to deal with this sale tax thing for about 10 years. While I understand that US based companies have no choice but to follow the law, I would be very suspect of a foreign company collecting state sales tax. I wouldn't count on those tax payments actually making it to the state coffers. If a transaction is through Ebay, then the money is probably going to make it to where it needs to go since they were forced to collect it for sellers several years back. As a side note, I had an EU based model company try to charge me EU VAT.
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This is shaping up to be a very complete update set! I'm not sure if you have finalized your support layout, but some of the parts have defects that would indicate inadequate supports. The launch rails and some of the afterburner parts have a wavy finish to them. It looks like they are moving around quite a bit during the printing process.
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LF/WTB Afterburner Decal 48-054 F-111F
sigtau replied to F4DPhanv3's topic in Buy and sell - add scale to your title
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OK, got it, email sent. Edit: Forgot to mention the Pave Tack set arrived in perfect shape with no breakages. The packaging was bulletproof.
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Question about combined shipping. I placed three separate orders for three different update sets (one Pave Tack pod, two standard F-16 upgrade sets, and two WAR HUD upgrade sets) I got ship notifications for all three resin orders w/ one tracking number. One package arrived with just the Pave Tack pod set in it, so it looks like maybe the F-16 sets got missed? Or are you shipping everything separately? I also got a ship notification and tracking number for the decals I ordered. I'm assuming the F-16 sets won't be packaged with the decals.

