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  1. I'm sad to announce that Zactomodels is now permanently closed. After having surgeries on my hands and lots of physical therapy, I've concluded that I can't do this work anymore. My fingers just don't work the way they used to. I am numb in both thumbs and suffering arthritic pain. I can't do the detail work and definitely can't handle the labor involved with casting. I am hoping to at least regain enough function to build and paint some models for myself at some point. There are so many I want to build! If things improve enough in the future I may end up
  2. Zactomodels is now open again and it's good to be back! During our move last year I injured my right shoulder. After months of living with it, I finally had it checked. I was diagnosed with a torn rotator cuff, but it turned out to be really bad bursitis with bone spurs. The MRI was excruciating because I had to hold my neck cranked to the side. A week later my neck was aching, my left arm began falling asleep and my left thumb tip was completely numb. I went almost 2 months like that before I found a chiropractor that was able to help. I was almost healed but kept re-injurin
  3. Praying that you and the family are OK. Please update us when you can... Vancouver storm: A state of emergency has been declared in British Columbia Vancouver Is Cut Off by Road, Rail After ‘Extraordinary’ Storms Once in 500 years' storm in British Columbia leaves behind collapsed bridges, 2,000 dead cows and record flooding as government grapples with food shortages and supermarket shelves picked clean by panic buying
  4. www.Zactomodels.com The store is now open for business!
  5. Indeed it was. Thank you! I'll try to have this ready to ship by Thursday. New thread here:
  6. Vendor A - You need to contact vendor D We're back in business baby! I even received an order before I could post this!
  7. Tech support at Vendor A - You need to contact vendor B. Vendor B - You need to contact vendor C. Vendor C - You need to contact vendor A. Maybe tomorrow...
  8. Looks like I'll need to wait until tomorrow. I need to contact my shipping provider during "regular" business hours to get the website working properly... Sorry to those who tried ordering today. I'll start a new thread once the site is up (and tested this time).
  9. And there's a problem... Murphy strikes once more. I'm working on it and will post when it's fixed.
  10. Great to hear from you too Alexander. It's been far too long. That MiG transformation is incredible. It's hard to believe that it was once a finished, painted Revell kit. It has truly earned the name "Franken-MiG". Beautifully done... In other news, THE STORE IS NOW OPEN!!!! 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 I am going to post a new announcement thread for visibility. Please make your replies on that thread to keep it on top (after 2 1/2 months I need the business!).
  11. New business license was approved today. Temporary shop space is very close to ready. Website and store should be updated and ready to open any day now. I'll make a new post when that happens. Sorry for my lack of communication, both here and through email. The move and things since then did not go as smoothly as planed... (Understatement of the year!!!) Our plans to purchase a home got delayed and we are currently staying in a spare bedroom at my mother-in-law's house in Carson City, Nevada, with plans to eventually buy near here. Our home buyer needed to
  12. I'm currently packing up the shop and moving in a couple of weeks. I'll do my best to get things up and running after the move, but anticipate setting up the new shop may also take a couple of weeks. I'm hoping to be back in business by September 1st or sooner. Contact me if you need something before then. I do have a few items in stock and will help if I can. My apologies for any email replies I may have missed during the past few weeks/months. It's been hectic... UK orders are still blocked due to their VAT regulations. I'm hoping to find a solution, a
  13. Not to worry. In 2021 we (the U.S. CDC) will be spending $1,000,000,000 for vaccine confidence activities, to: 1. Strengthen vaccine confidence. 2. Provide further information and education with respect to vaccines. 3. Improve rates of vaccination throughout the US.
  14. I have not bookmarked sources, just read several accounts over time. US CDC lists 1,107 reports of death ( https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html ) but does not necessarily categorize them as frail or elderly. This is something I have gathered having read multiple reports. I recall reading reports from various locations in the US and Europe including Germany, France and Norway (possibly others) where elderly, frail and those with comorbidities died after receiving the vaccine. The gist was that they may have died whether they received the vaccine
  15. I don't want to quote anybody, because I'm not looking for a fight, but there are a few points I'd like to make. While no deaths have been blamed on the vaccine, lots of recently vaccinated frail and elderly have died from the very same side-effects that the vaccine causes. The deaths have just not been directly attributed to the vaccine itself. Several people have had adverse and life-threatening allergic reactions to the vaccine, so some are at risk by getting it. This isn't a problem for most though. This is a new type of vaccination. Most previous vaccin
  16. Bump. Last Call for $47 price!!! Remainder will be sold off on eBay for a fair price (higher than $47!) starting sometime next week. Now listed on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/164695250300 These are new Kinetic 1/48 Su-33 kits molded after the sink-mark problem was fixed.
  17. I created the page but haven't linked it on the NEW website yet (check out the site while you're there!). I will eventually be adding a tutorial/misc page on the website and this will go there. https://zactomodels.com/su-33_drawings/ I updated the links at the beginning of this thread and edited the link in the Zactomodels sub-forum. I'm planning to sell off the remaining Kinetic Su-33 kits on eBay at a reasonable price which will be higher than the $47 I've offered here at ARC. I should have the eBay offering up sometime this coming week (assuming no more crises interrupt me
  18. I don't know the rules on this or shipping items as "gifts", but this might be a nice solution. My current plan for UK purchases: Under £135: eBay store. eBay charges customer the VAT and eBay does the dirty work of paying VAT to HMRC. Over £135: Minimum purchase over £135 will be required on my website, assuming I can find a plugin or code snippet to make this work. If not then customers can email me a list and I'll send an invoice.
  19. I am reading things differently regarding eBay and may have found some good news for you regarding wholesale. Please let me know if I am missing something here and provide links if possible. There's a thorough article about all of this here: https://esellercafe.com/how-a-new-vat-rule-from-brexit-now-impacts-every-us-seller-shipping-to-uk-customers/ As for selling direct to customers, the problem is only for purchases under £135 (currently $183.44). Over that amount and the customer pays the VAT. According to that article and links it provides, eBay takes care
  20. I got this wonderful news recently: I decided to register my business with HMRC so that I could continue doing business with my UK customers. About 2 hours into the frustrating and complicated registration process, ready to quit, I walked away from my computer to clear my head. When I returned the site had refreshed and started me over from the beginning, without having saved my info. I quit. I blocked payments from the UK on my website.
  21. Have a look at my new website!!! https://zactomodels.com A big thank you to the modelers whose pictures you'll see on my homepage. A huge thank you to Marcel and Miro who took multiple pictures of their kits until the lighting and pose of the images worked together so that I could merge them for the hero-pic. Thank you for tolerating my AMS! My old website was cluttered, crowded, not mobile friendly and way beyond obsolete. Not having a clue about building websites made this a real challenge. The site still needs a lot of work. I was mostly focused on m
  22. Have a look at my new website!!! https://zactomodels.com A big thank you to the modelers whose pictures you'll see on my homepage. A huge thank you to Marcel and Miro who took multiple pictures of their kits until the lighting and pose of the images worked together so that I could merge them for the hero-pic. Thank you for tolerating my AMS! My old website was cluttered, crowded, not mobile friendly and way beyond obsolete. Not having a clue about building websites made this a real challenge. The site still needs a lot of work. I was mostly focused on m
  23. Email Joanna again and CC info@trumpeter-china.com explaining that Joanna hasn’t responded. I had a customer do this after trying twice with no reply. When he did this he received a reply the same day. Good luck!
  24. I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 I'm taking the next few days off to be with family. New orders received will be dealt with next week, after the Thanksgiving weekend. I recently made some price updates on my website. For the most part the price changes benefit you, the customers: I raised and lowered some product prices, mostly lowered. I increased US S&H to match current rates. International shipping is still the same. I did a big S&H decrease on certain items I decided were safe to ship in padded envelopes rather than boxes. This
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