WymanV

It's my understanding (and I could be wrong) that they get paid by the post.

With my board settings I had to go back 14 pages of spam to bump this thread.

It costs nothing to post a message here.

I bought my sister a gallon of Elmers as a Christmas gag gift a long time ago. She was working at a newspaper at the time and I told her she could dump it in with the ink and see how that works out. She still uses it as a doorstop.

I've rarely waited more than 3 weeks for something to show up from China. Something that's rather dicey since last summer when the dismantling of the USPS really started to show but I haven't bought many kits lately either. And never an issue on ebay. I only got stiffed once in the last 24 years and ebay reimbursed me within 3 days.

...aaaaaaaand...mic drop.

That's not neutral gray. That's an effect of the glass.

I doubt it's gouging. Seems more like playing it safe in unknown and chaotic waters. Since the item was available here and manufactured in China I would think the safer bet is they don't know the extent of the problems created yet and restocking would likely result in paying more for it than the item I bought from their stock (see: USPS short lived suspension). It wasn't really my intent to pick up the radiator right now as there are other things that need to be finished up on the car but with all the fist shaking going on I figured I better get any "big ticket" import items left

One of my hobbies is working on an old car I've had for decades. Bought a radiator for it Sunday-made in China, $118. Monday it was $160.

Oof-didn't even notice that.

The crosses aren't necessarily wrong. The Dr.I went into service in August 1917, the change happened April 1918. I have plans for a few Dr.Is in the stash, one being the Eduard 1/48 kit as Richthofen's red one with the earlier markings. The kit comes with decals for that look.

Chocolate and clothes this year. Mom was the one who bought me models for Christmas and she was crushing it-the last few years were Eduard new WWII releases in 1/48. But she has a stroke a couple Christmases ago and now she's not shopping any more. Which is just as well as I'm on the verge of a stash purge. Between plastic and R/C projects there's an awful lot going on here and I don't need kits of models I've already built.

That's the one I'm waiting for. So many cool NMF schemes.

On the round ones, no. On the fishtail parts? Oof.

Different methods. I've been rigging biplane kits long before Bob's Buckles Eyelets and in a smaller scale than Wingnut Wings. Hard to justify filling a hole I put in there for a reason.