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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.

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.

Kit has been found!

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.

This kit seems to continue to elude me. PM me if you have one to sell or trade.

PM sent

OK, got it, email sent. Edit: Forgot to mention the Pave Tack set arrived in perfect shape with no breakages. The packaging was bulletproof.

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.

Did you ever receive your order? Mike finally responded to me on 1/29, telling me he had issues with being evacuated for the wild fires. That sucks, no problem. Paypal had returned the payment by that point, but he had already packed the order. He directed me to re-submit the order using the regular CC payment option. I didn't really think anything of it since he came through on my last order. After re-submitting the order, crickets for another week or two. I had to ping him a couple times before he finally responded with a tracking number on 2/13, saying it woul

I use Mr Hobby GX clear coats. Thin with self leveling thinner. Flows out great, super glossy finish that is much tougher than Aqua Gloss. If any of the base colors are Alcad high shine, I clear those with either aqua gloss or model master acryl clear gloss. I bought a huge stock pile of acryl clear gloss, so I'm set for life at this point. Also worth noting, MRP acrylic lacquers can stain from weathering oils if not clear coated. I tried weathering without a clear coat with their paint and it nearly ended badly. Also, their clear finishes are nice, but artist oils

That WAR HUD frame looks great. I would love to see this and the non-WAR HUD IP released in the legacy non-CDU config. I have dozens of older schemes that I'd love to build with such a nice 3D printed part.

I eventually received my order from back in October, and then placed another order in late Dec. Several emails requesting a status and still nothing. His products are actually really good, which is why I decided to order more. But at this point, it might be safer to buy from one of his distributers like the48ers.com.

Any update on when the links will be enabled?

Even in 1/48, the details on the probe are very tiny. I'm going to use mine on a streak eagle build and that probe will be prepped and painted after the rest of the kit is already finished and on the shelf.

It's possible I got a bad kit. I had issues with the Kinetic Gold F-16C retooled kit and there were definitely manufacturing problems with my copy (confirmed by the owner on this forum). While there were across the board fit issues I encountered with the Academy kit, the major issues were the joints between the fuselage sections. The slide molded aft fuselage was far to narrow to match up to the nose section. There's a bulkhead piece used to join the two, and it fit fine into the tail but the nose halves were to wide. To solve this issue, I removed material from the top joint j

The Academy kit is none of those things, so yes the GWH kit is worth it. There's no amount of aftermarket upgrades that can fix all the issues the Academy kit has. Academy clearly rushed this kit out the door to beat GWH to market. The worst part of the Academy kit is the fit. The vast majority of the major fuselage assembly requires extensive fitment tweaking to achieve even a mediocre fit. The entire forward fuselage fit was off. It's too wide on the aft joint with the slide molded rear fuselage by ~0.5mm. Even the engine pod fit to the aft slide molded fuselage

That aftermarket intake is only the duct, you still need the outer parts of the big mouth intake from the Kinetic big mouth kit.

Bam Models makes an early F-15A conversion that includes the probe: https://bam-models.com/product/48025-f-15-early-nasa/

I snagged mine from here, but it's OOS: https://the48ers.com/av-8b-super-harrier-early-conversion-set.html In stock at Plastic Models Store: https://plastic-models-store.com/cat4-r48034-148-mcdonnel-av-8b-super-harrier-early-conversion-resin-set Great service from both of these sellers.

The night attack version doesn't include the early LEX or the non-night attack nose. I will probably end up buying the CAT4 conversion set, which can be used to convert any of the USMC versions of the kit.

I picked up a Hasegawa AH-64E kit recently and it didn't include AH-64E decals. I'm looking for either the Caracal 48170 set (full or partial) or the original kit decals from Hasegawa kit #07414. Shoot me a PM if you have either of these available for sale.

Based on this thread, I went ahead and ordered direct from SH for the first time on 9/21. They have some really good looking items, especially their GWH A-10 upgrades. No order confirmation email from them. PayPal sent a payment notification email. When I checked PayPal, it is showing the payment hadn't been accepted yet and the recipient doesn't have a PayPal account. 10 days later, still the same status. I used their chatbot and it does show an order for me in process (based on the invoice # from PayPal). I sent a message via their chatbot to get a status on my P

Bump....still looking for this kit.

Any updates on the Hasegawa legacy hornet flap sets?

PM sent on the AH-64E package